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FreeThe New Employee Slacks Off in Every Way, Yet the Boss Cares for Him Even More
A short comedic skit: a new employee slacks off constantly, yet the boss treats him with unexpected kindness.
FreeSmall Steps Still Move You Forward
FreeDon't Waste Your Life
FreeMy First Day at School
FreeTalking About Daily Habits
FreeGarlic Butter Crispy-Skin Chicken — 3 Do's and 4 Don'ts
FreeThe 4 Scientific Principles of Cooking Great Beef
FreePeach Blossom Spring Made Easy to Memorize! A Must-Test Classical Text
An animated video to help memorize the classic classical-Chinese text 'The Peach Blossom Spring' by Tao Yuanming, a frequent exam piece.
FreeShopping at a Chinese Supermarket
FreeHow to Order Bubble Tea
FreeHow to Talk About Christmas in Chinese
FreeSteamed Hand-Torn Eggplant with Roasted Chili
How to make hand-torn steamed eggplant with roasted chili: keeping the eggplant from discoloring, plus a roasted-chili sauce recipe.
FreeLegendary Fragrant Pork Ribs — 600 Servings a Day
FreeChinese Street Food
FreeVirtual Pig Farming and Cyber House-Flipping: How the Tech Bubble Inflated and Burst
An explainer from the ChaiKnows channel on how tech bubbles form, inflate through speculation, and eventually burst.
FreeWhy I Want to Learn Chinese
FreeSometimes Life Really Sucks
A story told by Xiaolin with vocabulary explanations: 18-year-old Ajuan is enjoying his lion dance troupe when his father falls at a construction site and slips into a coma, so Ajuan decides to go to Guangzhou to earn money.
FreeChinese Feels Too Hard? How to Keep Going
FreeMy Day in Chinese
FreeChinese for Everyday Life
FreeWhy You Still Can't Speak Chinese
A moderately paced Chinese podcast on why you still hesitate to speak after studying for a long time. Practice listening with Chinese and English subtitles.
FreeSimple Chinese for the New Year
FreeOrdering Food at a Restaurant in Chinese
FreeTaking the Bus or the Subway
FreeHow Chinese Characters Work
FreeHow to Understand Native Speakers Naturally
FreeAmerican Programmer Slacks Off: Outsources His Job to China, Earns $250k a Year Doing Nothing
The story of an American programmer who quietly outsourced his job to China, doing almost nothing while earning a high salary.
FreeThe Frog in the Well
The idiom story 坐井观天, told slowly: a frog at the bottom of a well refuses to believe a little bird who says the sky is endless.
FreeOld Shanghai Scallion Pork Chops (Cong Shao Da Pai)
FreeShadowing: Make Your Chinese Improve Faster
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