In this episode, we discuss why people don't like this "adjusted leave" concept and whether it should be cancelled for good.

Transcript available: http://chinesecolloquialised.com

In this episode, we talk about China's International Workers' Day adjusted leave / time-off in lieu system. How does one day off become five days off?! And what do people in China think of this system? 

Transcript available: http://chinesecolloquialised.com

In this episode, we borrow the plot from the TV series 《小舍得》to explore China's junior to high school education culture.

Transcript available at: http://chinesecolloquialised.com

In this episode I talk about an article I've written (in English) in response to The Sunday Times' remark that seems to condone, approve and trivialise Prince Philip's racist "gaffes". 

The article: https://chinesecolloquialised.com/category/blog/

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Who do you think is China's first female emperor? What if I told you there are actually three contenders? Let's have a look. 👑

Transcript available: http://chinesecolloquialised.com

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In this episode, I briefly summarise the Xinjiang cotton issue and read a couple of news articles from China and a couple from the West to see how the issue was covered from different perspectives. 

Transcript available at: http://chinesecolloquialised.com 

Let's play with some Chinese characters this week. 

1. Can you guess the Chinese character from the short riddles?

2. What can you replace 弄 with for the sentence to still make sense? 

3. Where can you insert punctuations to break the sentence up? There are 5 possible different sentences with different meanings, can you find them all? 

Let me know on Instagram or in the comments section on my website, where the transcript is also available (http://chinesecolloquialised.com).

In this episode we talk #marriage! We take a closer look at the characters 娶 and 嫁 and their implicit meanings. We also cover 娘家 and 赘婿 to gain a certain cultural perspective of marriage in China.

Chinese Conversed: https://chineseconversed.com

Transcript available at: https://chinesecolloquialised.com

《从你的全世界路过》Read With Me Deep Dive Part 3. In this episode, I run through some of the colloquial/uncommon/helpful terms in this first short story of the second night. What do you think about the series so far?

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Let's read the first short story of the second chapter of 《从你的全世界路过》; it's called 我希望有个如你一般的人. 

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