You may find the word 'Tomb Sweeping Day' on the 5th of April on your calendar. We called the day 'Qingming' in Chinese. It is the day to gather all family members to tidy up the ancestors' gravesites and commemorate the passed family members. In this episode, we will introduce some knowledge of Qingming, also talk about the events and the related language phrases you might see during the Qingming days.

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This episode will discuss the word-chosen differences between adults and children. We invited a special guest, 5 years old Sophia, to join us and show what words the children usually use under some specific situations. Meanwhile, April will provide examples of 'sugar coating' sentences. You will see how adults deliver their messages in a suggestive polite way.

肚子餓、口渴、想上廁所、累了。這些時候你會怎麼說？這一集中我們邀請了五歲的中文母語者Sophia，告訴我們小朋友會怎麼說，另外我們也會告訴你哪些說法大人一定不能說，以及大人應該怎麼說～

學會適當的說法，讓你的中文更上一層樓吧！

Recommend Level: CEFR A2 (and above)

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Have you ever experienced an earthquake? What did it feel like? A series of small sharp jolts? Shakes? Rolling shaking? Taiwan is a high-frequency earthquake occurring place. There are 20000-40000 earthquakes every year. Don't worry! Most of them are unfelt earthquakes. People in Taiwan take earthquakes as a part of their (shared) daily experiences. In this episode, we will talk about the way of discussing earthquakes, and the must-know words about the earthquake.

地震是什麼感覺？地震時要怎麼保護自己？要怎麼知道一個地震大不大？如果你的國家也有地震，可以聽聽怎麼用中文描述地震，如果你的國家沒有地震，可以聽聽地震到底是怎麼樣的～

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We hope that we can be healthy all the time, but sometimes you still have to go to the hospital and look for professional medical treatments. Hospital is the place where to cure your sickness. What information do you need to know if you need to go to the hospital? How to make an appointment with a doctor in Taiwan? This episode will introduce the hospital-relevant Chinese to you. 

身體不舒服要看醫生，好緊張，有哪些事情應該知道呢？在這一集會告訴你怎麼選擇診所或醫院、應該帶哪些東西，還有要先做什麼！ 看醫生有好多要知道的事情，我們會分成好幾集，陸續播出喔～

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”Congratulations to the most beautiful couple! “This episode will discuss things you need to know about the Chinese wedding banquet. What will you see on the invitation card? What will you also receive with the wedding invitation? What do you need to prepare for participating in the wedding banquet? Gift or gift money? Which is a better choice for the new couple? And most important of all, what beautiful Chinese words can you say to express your best wishes to the newly-wed couple?

我收到喜帖了！參加喜宴前有什麼一定要知道的事情？一定要送紅包嗎？還是送禮物也可以呢？在這一集你會聽到跟喜宴有關的許多事情，有很多獨特、有趣的文化呢！

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Happy Birthday! How do you usually celebrate your birthday? Have a birthday party? Eat birthday cake or meal? Choose a birthday gift for yourself? In this episode, we will talk about how Taiwanese people celebrate birthdays. How to express your birthday blessing to someone in Chinese?

生日快樂！在你的國家，生日的時候通常會吃什麼呢？你看過紅色的蛋嗎？為什麼生日要吃紅蛋呢？豬腳麵線有什麼意義？幾歲的生日對我們來說特別重要？誰可能不想過生日？台灣的蛋糕上常有一種特別的蠟燭，可以幫我們隱瞞自己的年紀，你看過嗎？

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In this episode, we are going to introduce another interesting activity in the Yuan Xiao festival----solving lantern riddles. Free your Chinese knowledge and imagination; see if you can find the answer to the riddles.

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This episode will talk about the temperature metaphor from an interesting perspective. How do the Chinese use the adjectives 'warm' and ‘cold', ‘raw’ and ‘cooked’ to represent the relations between people? How do the Chinese use temperature feelings to say a person's attitude and personality? Listen to this episode and learn some interesting phrases.

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The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Yuan Xiao Festival (lantern festival). Chinese people make 'lantern' and 'yuan xiao' to celebrate this day. Eating 'yuan xiao' symbolizes a family reunion like a full moon and expresses people's good wishes for future life. This episode will introduce the material and the steps of making 'yuan xiao.' Also, we will tell you how to distinguish the difference between 'yuan xiao' and 'tang yuan,' another traditional festival food similar to yuan xiao.

元宵節要做什麼？看完花燈，還可以吃元宵～看起來差不多的湯圓跟元宵，竟然是不一樣的東西？到底哪裡不同呢？聽完這集節目，你就能告訴別人這兩樣東西的差別了！

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Chinese New Year is the most important festival in our culture. The atmosphere of the spring festival is a combination of different features and activities of the Chinese new year. In this episode, we will analyze the sources of the new year atmosphere, from the visual, auditory input, and the activities we usually do in preparing to welcome the Chinese new year. We will also debate whether the festival atmosphere is fading and getting weak.