As reformed ‘Teacher’s Pets’, Victor and Amber share their years of experience in the ‘Pet’ world by bringing you their Top 5 Pet Phrases. No, no…these aren’t your textbook phrases. Victor and Amber reach into the recesses of their formerly selfish attention-craving hearts and throw out some phrases that only years of China living can teach you. Listen in to this All About Chinese and be set. The Last Emperor, move over. The time has come to crown the new Emperor of China-town.
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Being the dutiful teachers we are, though we do not like the old boring methods of learning Chinese, we are not insecure, neither are we petty; therefore, we are happy to report that this All About Chinese lesson gives a shout out to our less fortunate contemporaries learning Chinese in Chinese classes around the world. It follows, therefore, that until these classrooms everywhere get a chance to join our cutting edge ChineseClass101.com team, we will give our learners some key phrases to use in said classrooms. Actually, these phrases can be used anywhere, anytime, but we decided to give the classrooms some free advertising since they are reeling from the mind-boggling, prodigious success of ChineseClass101 podcast lesson Chinese learning technique. Listen in and learn some key phrases to help in the Chinese language learning journey!
Now, perhaps your Chinese teacher refuses to teach you any phrase since the last run-in you had (the slip of the tone incident, we will hereafter refer to it as). Or perhaps your Chinese teacher just isn’t as cool as Amber and Victor are. Whatever the reason, you’ve come to the right lesson, because you are going to learn the Top 5 Chinese Phrases You Won’t Learn in Class. From insults, to venting, to compliments, to getting the best deal in town. It’s all here. Listen to this All About Chinese lesson to learn the key phrases to express yourself in real Mandarin; either that, or to know what that guy on the motorbike just hollered out as he passed with shaking fist.
You dreamt it once. You know the dream. Like the one where you went to elementary school but forgot to put your pants on? Except this one was worse. More nightmarish. The classic slip of the tone; addressing the teacher with ‘please kiss me’ rather than ‘excuse me’. What if you could learn Chinese without ever making a mistake? What if Victor and Amber could save you from every potential linguistical faux pas disaster? Um…ahem…keep dreaming. However, what we can do is give you this All About Chinese lesson on the Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid. It can give you a heads up on where not to go wrong. We may not be able to save you from the boogeyman, but we can probably keep you from getting slapped.
The Great Wall wasn’t built in one day, but you too can harness a little of that Chinese ingenuity and mobilization to accomplish things just as amazing. True, true, they had a work force 500,000 strong…but you have tools! And the internet! So, you take some online language learning tools, old-school dictionaries, Chinese-learning software, and a few arts-and-crafty things, and what do you get? A Chinese language pagoda of learning prowess. In this All About Chinese lesson, you will find that with a little savvy and a lot of hard work, you too can learn Chinese, and be in a taxi on your way to the Great Wall, in no time.
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