This episode is talking about taboos in Chinese. From ancient times, Chinese culture has incorporated a large number of taboos. Many ancient taboos were related to religion and worship. Other taboos were related to the solar eclipse. Also, Chinese people believed that language had a mystical inherent power that could influence certain things to happen. We call it "言灵".   

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Taboos in Chinese

Hotel - on, ona i..?
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A dialog between two strangers who are giving introductions in English, then you are prompted to reply to me ! Practice answering introduction questions as well as asking them. Send me a message if you would like a transcript! 

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我们搬家了! 但是... We moved! But...

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Quelques expressions pour quand il fait très chaud et quelques rappels sur la notion de h aspiré en français.

Paroles de la chanson Canicule de Jeanne Cherhal :

Il a fait beau
Ces derniers jours
Il a fait chaud
Il a fait lourd
Mais c'est bizarre
Depuis hier
C'est le cagnard
C'est le calvaire

Je suis à plat
Sur le carrelage
Et malgré ça
Je suis en nage
Dès que je bouge
Hanche ou mollet
Je vire au rouge
Ou au violet

J'ai branché ton
Ventilateur
Dans le salon
C'est une erreur
L'air qu'il diffuse
Est si plombé
Que si j'abuse
Je vais tomber

Pour m'aérer
Jusqu'à la moelle
Toute la journée
Je reste à poil
Même en maillot
Et même sans
J'ai chaud de dos
J'ai chaud devant

J'aurais bien pris
Une douche glacée
Mais ma plomberie
Est encrassée
L'eau devient tiède
Et fait des bulles
Tu le concèdes
C'est assez nul

La rue se fend
Et le bitume
Fond doucement
D'ailleurs il fume
Comme un chauffe-eau
Comme un chaudron
Faut aimer l'o-
deur du goudron

Enfin parlons
De toi, veux-tu?
T'as des glaçons
Moi j'en ai plus
J'ai les cheveux
Secs à très secs
Qu'est-ce que tu veux ?
Je fais avec

J'aurais aimé
Finir ma lettre
Car tu l'aurais
Reçue peut-être
Mais mon stylo
Est tout mouillé
Je suis en eau
Je vais rouiller

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In this episode we are going to learn 【Transportation 】in Chinese. 
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As a beginner, there're some vocabularies that you didn't learn before, and native speaker's speed seems too fast to understand. But don't worry, let's do it step by step. 
1st time: listen and catch the words you know already, have a guess about the content.
2nd time: look at the text to check if you guessed it right. 
3rd time: listen one more time, repeat after it.
4th time: practice until you can speak as the normal speed without looking at the text. 
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中国的交通很方便。
zhōng guó de jiāo tōng hěn fāng biàn 。
The transportation in China is very convenient.
去上班可以坐地铁、坐公车、打车或者自己开车。
qù shàng bān kě yǐ zuò dì tiě 、 zuò gōng chē 、 dǎ chē huò zhě zì jǐ kāi chē 。
To get to work, you can take the subway, bus, taxi or drive yourself.
家离公司近的人可以走路去上班。
jiā lí gōng sī jìn de rén kě yǐ zǒu lù qù shàng bān 。
People who live close to the company can walk to work.
但是大城市人很多，堵车很厉害。
dàn shì dà chéng shì rén hěn duō ， dǔ chē hěn lì hài 。
But there are many people in big cities, and traffic jams are severe.
如果你赶时间，坐地铁最好。
rú guǒ nǐ gǎn shí jiān ， zuò dì tiě zuì hǎo 。
If you're in a hurry, it's best to take the subway.
因为地铁不会塞车，很准时。
yīn wèi dì tiě bú huì sāi chē ， hěn zhǔn shí 。
Because the subway does not have traffic jams, it is very punctual.
以前坐地铁用地铁卡，现在用手机就可以了。
yǐ qián zuò dì tiě yòng dì tiě kǎ ， xiàn zài yòng shǒu jī jiù kě yǐ le 。
Before we used subway card to take the subway, now using mobile phone is enough.