Chinese Daily Life
Beginner - Intermediate
189 Videos

A Perfumer describes his beautiful spacious home and How it's ideal for his pets.

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There are two ways of introducing people to others. One is more formal and the other is more causal.

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What would you do if someone were to set you on with a blind date?

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One should never judge a person by his or her appearance. It's what's inside that counts.

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The family's neighbor is trying to introduce a girl to Xiao Wei. Let's see how things go.

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Chinese is very complicated because the same characters can have different meanings depending on the context, similar to homographs in English.

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Have you ever tried mixing the Chinese and Western breakfasts together?

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Would you ask for your present two weeks before your actual birthday?

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The family gets into an argument, debating whether Susan should sell Chinese food or Western food. Do you think that Susan is really trying to open a breakfast shop?

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Susan has taken the breakfast sign from a store. What do you think she will do with it?

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It's very easy to state the date in Chinese. All you need is the number plus the words "year," "month," and "day."

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As one's day depends upon the morning, you might want to start waking up earlier.

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What do you do when you can't go to sleep? Do you drink milk or do you count sheep?

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Fighting jet lag is the worst. Miao stays up with Susan while she's attempting to adjust to the time change.

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The mystery of the dumplings is that the person who eats the lucky dumpling with the coin filling will be the luckiest person in the coming year.

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Since she's planning on becoming independent from her family, Susan will be staying with Miao's family long-term.

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Miao's family is shocked when Susan says she'll stay at their house longer.

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Coins are traditionally incorporated into the Chinese New Year dumplings with a symbolic meaning.

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A tradition of Chinese New Year is to eat dumplings with family but there's also another tradition within the dumplings. Can you guess what it is?

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Eating dumplings with different types of fillings is a traditional Chinese New Year activity.

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There are different ways to ask someone his or her name. For people who are older than us, "nin" should be used, while "ni" should be used for younger people.

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On their way home from the temple fair, Mai and Susan meet Mai's neighbor, Sister Liu.

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With Susan staying with them for Chinese New Year, Miao's family feels a bit unsure how to act in front of the foreign guest.

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People often do crazy things when they are drunk. What kind of show have you put on in that state?

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When adjectives are used as predicates in Chinese, there are three forms: affirmative, negative and interrogative.

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