On their first date, Tim asks Nini about her family background and life.

Nini learns that Tim is a music composer and Tim shares a song he created with her.

Mama Jiabao will show you how to make chicken soup.

Why is it important to clean the chicken and make sure the head, feet and internal organs are removed?

How do you prepare a chicken for your chicken soup?

What should you look for when you select dates for your soup?

Why is it important to skim off the foam when your soup is boiling?

What should chicken soup look like after three hours of cooking?

How that you've finished making your chicken soup, how can you enjoy it?

Lydia teaches us how to talk about body parts in Chinese, about the head and face in particular.

Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale. When was the last time you went to your yoga class?

Let's practice Mountain Pose.

Inhale, exhale. Let's keep going with our yoga.

One, two , three, four, five. Are you feeling that stretch in your body?

Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale. Let's do the downward dog position.

Back and forth. Repeat the steps.

Just keep stabilizing your breath.

This well-known story commonly used to educate children on the values of courtesy and fraternal love involves four-year-old Kong Rong giving up some larger pears to his older and younger brothers. Still employed in current times, this text has been used for elementary education since the Song Dynasty.

The Chinese idiom, "San Xin Er Yi," literally means, "Three hearts, two thoughts." It can be used to describe someone who splits his energy between many things instead of focusing on one task at a time. The simple vocabulary in this video gives an example of "San Xin Er Yi."

This idiom is used as a metaphor for the punishment of a person to alert others to correct their behavior.

Hear the story from which the saying, "Hun Shui Mo Yu" came about. It means to take advantage of a chaotic time or deliberately create confusion to obtain benefits.

This Chinese idiom advises people not to give up halfway through or leave something unfinished.

"Shou Zhu Dai Tu" means, "Sitting by a stump, waiting for a careless rabbit to hit the stump." Originally, it referred to the routineer in an ironic way. Later, the metaphor came to mean one does not take the initiative to work hard and wants to get a windfall.

Do you know whether ginger grows on the ground or in a tree? Unfortunately for the man in this video, neither does he.