ChinesePod - Intermediate

This isn't just any job interview. You're not selecting a maid, or an assistant. You're interviewing your mother substitute. Will you cook, will you clean my dirty underwear, will you let me stay up past midnight? In this podcast, learn how to pick out your new Chinese mommy, in Mandarin. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0710

You're pregnant! In today's podcast, learn how to talk about maternity in Mandarin. If there's a steamed bun in your oven, this is the lesson for you. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1057

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the corrupt judges, scandalous rumor mills, trashy tabloids, and catty girls that made this lesson series possible. If it weren’t for the support of the listening audience, we never would have been able to bring this story to it’s tragic, albeit long-winded conclusion. Listen to this finale, and say goodbye to the blogs and the beautiful, in Mandarin Chinese. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0901

In today's lesson we'll explore the controversial issue of eating dog meat in China. In today's podcast, learn how to hold your ground using Mandarin in a discussion on the topic of animal rights - at the dinner table. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1119

When is a beauty pageant not a mess? All those bikinis, blow-dries, manicures, bleached teeth, body part enhancements. Ew. Our blogger finds out that the pageants of the computer world are no better. In this installment, join us as we see just how bad it can get. Life's tough when you're beautiful. Learn about it in this podcast, in Mandarin. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0881

Who's that with the blank stare, shuffling feet, and unholy moan of frustration? Is it someone trying to learn Chinese without ChinesePod? Or is it a zombie? Listen to today's Mandarin podcast and find out-- if you dare. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1116

Back on the beat of the Blogger's Beauty Pageant and the Edison Chen story is looking more and more banal by the day. This time, ironically, it may be the internet that brings our techie contestant down. Listen to this podcast and follow along in the drama of photoshopped pictures and the seedy underworld of typing for a living, in Mandarin. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0837

In these troubled times, purchasing a Guided membership at ChinesePod is the best thing you can do with your money. Next best is stuffing a big wad of Chinese RMB into your mattress. But if you ever go totally nuts and want to invest in stocks, today's podcast will teach you how to talk in Mandarin about the market everyone loves to hate. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1102

After a loooong sabbatical during which some of the contestants were convalescing from some much-needed plastic surgical procedures, we welcome back our blogger beauties in this episode of the beauty pageant series. Listen in to this podcast as we go behind the scenes and try to find out if Liu Jia is really willing to sell herself for fame and dubious fortune, in Mandarin Chinese. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0797

What's up, doc? Today's Chinese lesson brings you to everyone's favorite hang-out: the doctor's office! You'll learn to use Chinese to say your favorite phrase: "You need to lose weight and stop drinking." Who says you can't have fun with Mandarin? Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1092