Listen to, and learn a dialog about condoms and STDs:

A: Now that you’re having sex again, I hope you guys are using condoms.

B: I'm on the pill; who needs condoms?

A: (Oh) please, condoms isn't just for birth control; don't you wanna protect yourself from STDs?

B: How long have you known us for--don’t you think your insinuations are a bit much?

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The soundtrack is “Tru Steppas,” by The Passion HiFi, found at Music By The Passion HiFi at: www.thepassionhifi.com

Learn how to talk smack in Cantonese and Mandarin:

A: My company sucks.

B: Now what? More office politics? Somebody offend you?

A: They denied my workers' comp claim.

B: So what? Appeal it.

©2019 Emeline Mann Sanchez

The soundtrack is “Dream Big,” by audiobinger, licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License, at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Learn a dialogue in Cantonese and Mandarin:

A: Let’s go out to eat.

B: No way--you forget I have celiac disease? It's a pain eating out.

A: What's the big deal? Just tell the kitchen you can't eat gluten.

B: Even if I say I can't eat gluten, who knows what the kitchen cooks up that may make me sick as a dog later on.

Bonus Chinese idiom: burning zithers and cooking cranes (antibiotics, much?)

©2019 Emeline Mann Sanchez

The soundtrack is “Harlem Incident,” by The Passion HiFi, whose tracks can be found at Music By The Passion HiFi at: www.thepassionhifi.com

Learn to say, "Don't be such a drama queen--you won't go blind; cataracts are treatable" in Cantonese and Mandarin, and take a little side tour on the history of being filial by self-mutilation (not recommended).

©2019 Emeline Mann Sanchez

The soundtrack is Mo’ Blues, produced and mixed by The Passion HiFi, whose tracks can be found at Music By The Passion HiFi at: www.thepassionhifi.com

Learn to say, “With some diseases, there are no clear symptoms--they’re easily misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all,” in Cantonese and Mandarin.

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If you want to read up on the stories of patients who were misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all, go to: https://www.improvediagnosis.org/stories/

The soundtrack is Once Upon a Time by Audiobinger, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License, at:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Note: My apologies--something like a reverb got into the voice recording and I don't know how to strip that out 😖. I don't have the time to re-record this.

Learn to say, "You just don't get it--the high from using drugs is his whole world now," in Cantonese and Mandarin.

©2019 Emeline Mann Sanchez

soundtrack - "Not Quite Two Minute Blues" by texasradiofish, featuring copperhead

2019 - Licensed under Creative Commons, Attribution Noncommercial (3.0), at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

DISCLAIMER: Apologies--the first version of this podcast episode stated that the contents of the first podcast about brand name meds talked about how US soldiers were given meth in WWII, but actually it was in a book that I was writing a while ago; it was so long ago, I thought it must've been in the first podcast, but that's actually NOT the case. Mea culpa...

Learn how to use Cantonese and Mandarin to say, "Are you kidding? Even if you think the mole is ugly, you don't need to cut it off--it’s not like it's cancerous." Can you guess what Bob Marley and John McCain has in common? And which comedian has the last laugh--Bill Cosby, or Hannibal Buress?

©2019 Emeline Mann Sanchez

Information on skin cancer in various languages can be found at:

https://medlineplus.gov/languages/skincancer.html

Information on Cantonese ending particles can be found at:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=38229

The soundtrack is Spanish Winter, produced and mixed by The Passion HiFi, whose tracks can be found at Music By The Passion HiFi: www.thepassionhifi.com

Learn to say, “Don't be so worried, there's no proof that vaccinations cause autism,” in Cantonese and Mandarin.

©2019 Emeline Mann Sanchez

soundtrack: What We Came to Do by The Passion HiFi, whose tracks can be found at Music By The Passion HiFi, at www.thepassionhifi.com

With an intro about vaqueros, learn to say, “Constipation for kids can become a vicious cycle, because the pain stemming from the first time of having constipation can cause kids to resist defecating--the withheld stool will become hard causing the next bowel movement to be even more painful,” in Cantonese and Mandarin.

©2019 Emeline Mann Sanchez

soundtrack: Citrus Keys by Kenney Floreat, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License, found at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Some of the content from this podcast was derived from the American Liver foundation.

http://www.liverfoundation.org/

Learn to say, “Constipation for kids can become a vicious cycle, because the pain stemming from the first time of having constipation can cause kids to resist defecating--the withheld stool will become hard causing the next bowel movement to be even more painful,” in Cantonese and Mandarin.

©2019 Emeline Mann Sanchez

soundtrack: Citrus Keys by Kenney Floreat, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License, found at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Some of the content from this podcast was derived from the American Liver foundation: http://www.liverfoundation.org/