Ours story today is about bad and good luck. We discuss the raising Covid cases, the rolling blackouts and the drought currently happening in Taiwan. The power outage blew the fuse box and broke a number of lights and our TV. It's been quite a challenging weekend. But we have stayed positive. Ula speaks Mandarin Tom speak English. Chinglish throughout. A great way to get your Mandarin Chinese listening practice in AND be able to follow along with the conversation.Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp group. Websitehttps://www.mandarinmonkey.comAwesome Bloghttps://mandarinmonkey.com/blog/HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LISThttps://mandarinmonkey.com/high-5-fridays/Get Amazing Mandarin toolswww.patreon.com/mandarinmonkeySkritter - Learn to write Chinesehttps://skritter.com?ref=mandarinmonkeyUse promoCode: MANDARINMONKEYfor 10% off everythingDiscord (early stages of set up)https://discord.gg/KHjF7NNq8dThe Mandarin Monkey Podcast is a Mandarin Chinese and English Edutainment podcast designed to entertain and educate. Tom (Native English speaker) and Ula (Native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan) discuss various topics from life to science, from movies to relationships. Also raising three multiracial children they discuss the challenges of raising bilingual children and with learning Mandarin, English and Taiwanese at home. The Mandarin Monkey podcast is a Chinglish (Chinese and English) podcast which also has a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session in every episode. Also, they have guests on the show from different backgrounds, linguists, authors, creators all the way to doctors. Hope you enjoy. #mandarinmonkey #chinglish #Mandarinpodcast #Edutainment

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