Effortless Chinese

The Chinese your
textbook skips.

Real conversation, the cultural logic underneath the words, and why 慢走 has nothing to do with walking speed.

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Survival Chinese — 100 Sentences

Ten real situations, ten sentences each. Ordering, paying, getting lost, asking for help. Hanzi, pinyin, English — plus sixteen sentences that mean something quite different from what the words say.

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Episode companions

The vocabulary, sentences and culture notes from each episode — added here as they go out.

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