It is getting cold now. Because of the changeable weather some people may feel uncomfortable.What do you usually do when you feel bad? At this time,the clinical thermometer is useful.In the modern society,as the technology developed,a new kind of electronic clinical thermometer is invented.It is faster and more convenient. Although it has some advantages,it may show us the wrong temperature.Do you like it?Or do you still prefer the traditional mercurial thermometer?

Nowadays, the form of blog appears on the news frequently. For instance, reveal an affair to the outside world or describe an event by blog. It is a platform for releasing news and exchanging information that is different from forum. So writing blog becomes more and more popular. Especially for young people. Record anything you have seen and write some ideas you want to express. Blog is a part of life, as it were. How about your idea?

In Chinese culture,the most typical literary works are 四大名著。They are A Dream of Red Mansions, ChamberOut laws of the Marsh,The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The Monkey King. Love is the eternal topic in all literary outputs. Among these four works, A Dream of Red Mansions tells a story of love tragedy in feudal society. 贾宝玉(the hero) and林黛玉’s (the heroine)opinions of love were not accepted. So that leads their love tragedy directly.

We've all been there... Messing up, making mistakes,well, makes us human. No one is perfect. But how we clean up that mess and make us more successful in our personal and business lives, and more respected in our relationships with friends and colleagues, maybe we need apologize,perhaps not perfect apology, but just need saying sorry. Accordingly, when you accept someone’s apology, knowing that apologizing is never an easy task, how to make it comfortable, all in Mandarin.…

“80后”，一个热门、争议不断的社会问题。这群1980年以后出生的人从他们出生之日起就一直受到广泛关注。成长环境上的极大差异造就了“80后”这一代人独特的性格和思想。他们对生活是什么样的态度呢?最近一部很火的电视剧《奋斗》，讲的就是关于80后的生活，看看这几个年轻人究竟反映出的是什么问题。

In China, if you fall ill, what should you do? You should go to the hospital immediately. Before seeing the doctor, you have to be registered in the hospital. If you are not sure which section you belong to, you could ask the nurse at the Registration Office. On the contrary, you may tell the nurse directly. In the big cities, the outpatient service dividies into Experts out-patient clinics and General out-patient. You could tell the nurse which outpatient service you like to take. It is all up to you. Today, Mike doesn’t feel well, so he goes to the hospital.

When you see someone is injured in a car accident. But now you are in China, what will you do to help that person? Certainly the emergency phone number of your country is useless at this very time. So in China when you meet this kind situation, you should keep calm and call The First Aid Center. Its number is 120. It could be used all over the country. Then when you get through, please keep cool-headed and answer whatever questions the missionary asks.

No matter where you travel,the different places have their own local food.As a stranger,when you first time come,these special food can’t be missed.Beijing local snacks with long history,different kinds are famous in overseas.The snacks are not simply just food,but indicate the local history and culture.If you plan to travel to Beijing, the delicious snacks would make you feeling fantastic,and the species,even the people who lived in Beijing for 40 years haven’t eaten all of them.No need to rush,let’s try them one by one.

Everyone likes compliments,even that’s just company manners. But if you give your compliments to your Chinese friends,don’t be surprised or upset that when they refused your compliments.Right,appropriate compliments can serve as effective supplementary means in inter-personal communication. However western and Chinese culture are at polar opposites about compliment. For example, the Americans are “straight forwardness”, the Chinese take pride in “modesty”.let’s see how these compliments and modesty are going on at a Karaoke room…

If you mention Chinese arts, Beijing opera京剧（Jing Ju） maybe is the first one you can think of. Many foreigners think Peking opera is the only opera in China. But actually there are 368 different forms of opera throughout the country. How’s that much ? Each variety takes its name from the place where it originated and is popular. The use of local dialects and unique melidies distinguish the different types of opera. Among the best known forms are Beijing Opera (actually a national form). And just six big is popular in China .Check about them, all in Mandarin…

In daily life,we maybe express our feeling of missing everyday . Love, joy, hate, fear and grief are all emotions. In China ,if you want to figure out which sentence is the most spoken between lovers,maybe except “I love you”, it will be “Do you miss me?” . How to express it ? In love relationship,the Chinese girl usually plays a passive role ,but the man has to be active, if he wants to have a love relationship with this girl. Of course ,you also can express this feeling to your family members,your relatives…So we will teach you how to tell that special someone that you miss them, using Mandarin Chinese.

Shopping is a very common thing in everyone’s daily life. Usually people want to get goods at low prices with high qualities. How to get this kind of goods? Of course, Bargain! Saving money means to earn money! Bargaining is acceptable in most Chinese stores, except in the supermarket or some shopping malls in which the goods have clear fixed prices and the staff is not allowed to grant discretionary markdowns. Try bargaining every time you shop, you may get a great price reduction and enjoy the fun and pleasure of shopping. Now, Mike is in a store Bargaining with the shopkeeper. Could he make down the price? Let’s listen to today’s lesson.

Zhu Rong is the Chinese god of fire and ruler of the southern hemisphere from pre-Qin mythology. He is depicted as a proud man clad in armor wielding a sword and riding on a large tiger. He was one of the gods that helped separate Heaven and Earth and set up Universal Order. He is most famous for battling his own son Gong Gong, who was a water demon responsible for causing floods. When Zhu Rong heard that his son was attempting to seize the throne of Heaven, he went to stop him. The two of them battled for days across Heaven until both plummeted down to Earth. Finally Gong Gong was defeated and sulked away in shame while Zhu Rong returned to Heaven triumphant, after having won a great battle.

幸福美满的婚姻生活是每个人都想得到的，但是如何经营婚姻也是一门学问，需要我们慢慢学习和体会。婚姻不是恋爱时的花前月下，不是满满的甜言蜜语；它是涓涓细水长流，是真真切切的生活体会，许多现实问题需要两个人一起面对。今天侗志和雯丽又在聊些什么呢？你从他们的对话中又能听出来中国长久封建思想中的一种观念吗？它到底是什么呢？

If you accidentally leave something behind at a place when you’re out, you can always go back to look for it, or go to the administration office of that place to look for it. Usually a large store or public place has a Lost and Found office. If one loses something,he or she can go to make a police report at the nearest police station. Usually, you’ll need to tell the policeman what you have lost,where you have lost it, what it looks like,etc., and leave your name, address and phone numbers. The police will inform you once they found your things.

Boasting 1.4 billion people, needless to say China’s a big place…with many different types of weather. This lesson will not only teach you weather basics in Mandarin Chinese, but also how to plan accordingly. What else are you going to talk about with the driver while heading to work the same time as aforementioned numbers are?

Chinese people are very warm and friendly,especially at meals.there are many knowledges and rules about treating at home.If you want to treat someone at your place in china, to show them your courtesy,indeed the wonderful food is absolutely necessary,but do remember the Chinese style treating,or maybe you will offend your guests.today in this lesson,we will learn how to treat your guests a meal at your place.By studying it,surely you will understand a little about the Chinese style treating.

No matter where you visit,the people who you talk to are mostly enjoy you flattering them,ourselves either.Learning how to flatter people by Chinese is a quite useful tool for making a good relationship with Chinese people,although they are supposed to be very humble.But that is not easy to learn since perhaps you would flatter people about wrong things.the consequence you caused would be terrible.

The party starts with happy hour, but you won’t get the invite if you can’t tell the crew what time you get off work…and you won’t be able to bow out of taking early morning baijiu shots unless you can moan about what time you have to go in the next day… All this can be solved if you listen to this Podcast on working time, in Mandarin Chinese.

The Chinese have a saying: 'Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are the seven necessities to begin a day.' Though tea is last on the list, we still can see the importance of tea in daily life. A simple meal in Chinese is Cu Cha Dan Fan, namely coarse tea and tasteless dinner. Even a simple meal is finished off with tea so its importance is obvious. For the Chinese, tea drinking and tea tasting are not the same. Tea drinking is for refreshment and tonic effect.Tea tasting has cultural meaning. Tea and tea wares should match surrounding elements such as breeze, bright moon, pines, bamboo, plums and snow. All these show the ultimate goal of Chinese culture: the harmonious unity of human beings with nature.

The westerners always have milk in their breakfast because of the rich nutrition of it. Unlike them the easterners especially the Chinese have their unique milk—Soybean Milk which with rich nutrition,too. And people also like to have some seasoning in it when they drink it. Soybean milk is made of beans and you could have it hot or cold. – Have you ever drunk it before or would you like more?

Paper-cut is a very distinctive visual art of Chinese handicrafts. It originated from the 6th century when women used to paste golden and silver foil cuttings onto their hair at the temples, and men used them in sacred rituals. Later, they were used during festivals to decorate gates and windows. After hundreds of years' development, now they have become a very popular means of decoration among country folk, especially women.The main cutting tools are simple: paper and scissors or an engraving knife, but clever and deft craftspeople are remarkably good at cutting in the theme of daily life. When you look at items made in this method carefully, you will be amazed by the true to life expressions of the figure's sentiment and appearance, or portrayal of natural plants and animals' diverse gestures. Patterns of chrysanthemum display the curling petals, pied magpies show their tiny feathers and others such as a married daughter returning to her parents' home, or young people paying a New Year call to their grandparents.

Offering one’s seat to other people is not the mandatory obligation. However, respecting the old and loving children are the traditional virtues of Chinese nation. Offering seat to other people seems insignificant, Let’s try to our effort to help the people who need help. Let’s keep and develop our society’s good virtue, and establish nice social environment. Let our world full of caring and love.in today’s lesson,the situation is totally different from those.

It was recounted that marriage interview become more and more popular like LV bags in China.If you reach marriage age and still are single, your friends especially, your relatives will arrange such activities for you, even without care of your interest in it or not. From the Chinese plays or Japanese plays on TV, we know the pattern of marriage interview. First, find a private ,quiet and romantic place. Secondly, the matchmaker make introduction in the proper way. Thirdly, inquiring your job, character, hobby, age and family background etc, It seems that with these information, two persons can hit it off easily even though they are strangers one hour before.Among this generation,young people prefer to chase material possessions rather than the romance.In today’s lesson,we will talk about this.

It is excited to go shopping, especially for girls .But I don’t know the counters when I am at a new shop. Maybe I could ask the shop assistant, by the way, and know the attitude towards customers…

Nowadays, there are two new popular words in China—闪婚 and 闪离. They are not just only two words but also standing for a type of social phenomenon that appears with youth, especially with the youth who were born in the 1980s. What are 闪婚 and 闪离？闪婚 means the youth get off with each other in an extremely short time and fall in love instantly, then get married. 闪离 is opposite to 闪婚. The young couples are to divorce without an abiding marriage. It is as fast as lightning. What view do the seniors take to the youth for the phenomenon?

Most people often dream at night. When they wake up in the morning they say to themselves, "What a strange dream I had! I wonder what made me dream that. What this dream indicates?” Maybe a dream like a life , life like a dream. Sometimes sweet dreams,sometimes nightmares.In Chinese folk traditions ,they usually think the sweet dream could bring a lucky day, the nightmare would indicate some bad things. But sometimes it is said what you experience in dreams usually turns out to be the opposite.In addition, this is used to comfort people who have nightmare.Let’s go to the dialogue to see it’s a sweet dream or a nightmare ? All in Mandarin……

Teacher's Day around the world is not celebrated on the same day. In some countries, Teacher's Day is celebrated on working days. Whereas, in other countries, it is celebrated on holidays. However, the day of celebration, itself, holds no significance. What matters, is the feeling behind the celebration of Teacher's Day. September 10th is the Teacher's Day in China. Being a teacher in China is not simply a job, it is one of the most respected career and soul engineer. Do you eager to know how the Chinese students celebrate it? Do you want to know what the students will say when they meet their teachers? Ok, let’s go to the Chinese classroom to experience the atmosphere of the Teacher’s Day.

As China getting stronger day by day, its position is getting higher and higher in the world. Especially after holding the 29th Olympic Games, the capital Beijing has become a very hot international traveling city. More and more foreign travelers come here to see something which they could not see in other countries. For example, they would like to see some special animals as pandas and Manchurian tigers in Beijing Zoo. Today a Chinese traveler and a foreign traveler met in the zoo and they are talking about the special animals in China.

As we all know,China is an oriental country with long history, ancient culture, and many amazing customs, traditions as well. Are these things all obverse affects for the offspring? Certainly not. In today’s lesson, it will introduce one of the amazing customs and traditions, which is called “随份子” by Chinese. When there are the important occasions happened, like wedding, funeral, among the relatives and friends, people join together for buying presents to them, aiming to show one’s care and love.Originally, “随份子” is an obverse custom to people since it adjusted to the demands of daily living. But with the society developing,gradually, this custom isn’t benefit to most of people anymore. Unfortunately, it becomes an awful pressure of people’s finance and mental. At present, more and more people can’t afford it…

Mike has transferred to the branch in China. And the working time is very different from the East to the West. In China the regular working time generally is from Monday to Friday, with Saturday and Sunday off. The Chinese people usually work between 08:00 and 18:00 every day, with a lunch break from 12:00 -14:00 . However, in some big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, the working time may different, they don’t have lunch time at noon. They are nearly like the western countries, people usually work between 09:00 and 17:00 every day, from Monday to Friday, with no break time at noon. And so Mike is still new to the Chinese working time.

In China, almost all the television stations relay the most authoritative broadcast—News Broadcast,which is made by the national television station. Generally speaking,people will not change the channel ,waiting for the next program—the Weather Forecast.Tonight. Li Na and Wang Hao are watching TV after supper. Li Na wants to watch the TV play series when the News Broadcast just ended.How does Wang Hao response to her?

Maybe you never know the Chinese soccer team,but the Chinese table tennis has a worldwide reputation for its high skills.Today,neither do we talk about the soccer in China nor the table tennis,but the basketball game.You can easily find the basketball courts everywhere in China. With Yao Ming going to NBA,more Chinese people are wild to the basketball game.If someone asks that what sport is the most popular ,and possesses the most people to take part in ,it must be the basketball game.In public of China,perhaps you will find a crowd under a large-screen to watch the live basketball match.

For many Chinese people,sending short message,like the spring festival gala,family reunion dinner,already becomes the basic activity spending new year.as to be expected,sending short message helped us keep in touch at every happy or sad moment during our life.initially,it is the important activity for just young people to wish a happy new year,but now,during the spring festival,the short message’s charm already pervades people of all ages looking this as an important thing to do.further more,even some companies ,organizations and local governments also join in…

Chinese Shadow, which can also be called "Chinese Shadow Play or Chinese Shadow Puppet play", is one of the most ancient genre of drama in China. It came into being in the Han Dynasty (206B.C.-A.D.220) and has more than two thousand years' history.Popular among the people of China , Chinese Shadow is a dramatic form which uses lantern to project on the screen the shadows of the puppet. The artistic effect of the play is produced through light, screen, music, singing, and puppet operation. The shadow play is widely regarded as “a magic, lightning-like art" and has won high praise in many countries.

There’re many festivals in every culture and nation. In the middle of the autumn they will have a Mid-Autumn Day in China. It is says that the moon is quite a full-circle in mid-autumn day. And people hope that their families can be full like the moon. Also, what will they eat in this festival? This lesson will show you something about the Mid-Autumn Day.

If we come to a strange city or a new place, we don’t know the places and the streets. How can we know where we are? How can we get to the places we are going to visit? Which transportation should we take,bus,subway or just on foot? And then turn left or right? This lesson will tell you the answers to all the questions above.

The 29th Olympic Games will end soon, and most of us have watched many games of it these days, do you have any ideas about the games and the players, which or who do you like best? And what sports do you always take part in? In this test you could learn some words and sentences about the sports and the players.

People always complain their job,when they talking about it with their friends,especially the modern Chinese Youth .They always have a bunch of reasons to be tired of the job,though they have no choice to do it.But don’t believe all they said,because maybe it’s just a complain. Here is a dialog between two young men complaining their jobs and making wishes to their jobs…check out what’s the wish of Wanghao? Along the way ,get some knowing about what it's like to be modern Chinese Youth.

The gold medal has the great significance for a country,it’ will bringing big glory to the nation ….Before and during the Beijing Olympics ,a big puzzle lead to the speculation, that’s which country will bag the most gold medals? Which country do you think? The always winner-USA? Or the Host-China? Or another unexpected winner…… you can learn how to talk in Mandrain ….

The typical office working day, including meetings and making deadlines of projects through confirming the work schedule…. Nothing special? This is a really special project—the construction for the Beijing National Stadium ,also known as the Bird’s nest . And, this time many Chinese companies did the excellent work. How is the situation for the the boss to confirm this project schedule on a working day? Check here… in Mandarin Chinese.

Every Chinese has his or her own animal sign?The zodiac is an important part of traditional Chinese culture. According to the Chinese calendar, the year you were born may determine your personality. It is a traditional way to calculate one's age. Do you know what’s your animal of Chinese Birth year? And what’s the Benmingnian? In this dialog we will learn that in Mandarin, With that check out your animal sign…..

Have you eaten Chinese food? How do you like it? Which kind of Chinese food do you like best? And have you ever cooked meal, even cooked Chinese food? Would you like to share your cooking experience with us?! Join us please. That must be interesting…

The Beijing Olympics, 2008 has been closed. All of the world people have joined the distinguished meeting together. The scene of opening ceremony was embedded in our memory. What impressed you deeply? The sacred flame? Chinese traditional culture Pictures? Pompous occasion on the opening ceremony or the little girl, who was in red dress , sang the song of “歌唱祖国”? Let’s listen to what Susan and Jack are talking about?

No matter what language we want to learn, greeting and self-introduction are the most basic elements in learning process. Not only in western countries but also in other countries around the world, using the gently expression of self-introduction will help you to leave the elegant impression to others .Don’t you want to try?!