Digital Audio

Whether you’re raising children in China or elsewhere, or even just enjoy talking about the challenges of childrearing, this lesson pack is chock-full of relevant topics and practical vocabulary. This download Includes a PDF transcript of all 10 dialogs, 10 MP3 audio dialog files, and 10 MP3 audio vocabulary files. Also includes both traditional character and pinyin versions of the dialog.

The ten parenting topics covered in the lesson pack which you won’t find in textbooks are:

1. Eating Vegetables

2. Using the iPad

3. Extracurricular Classes

4. Spending Money

5. Two Children

6. Lying

7. Where did I come from?

8. I want it too!

9. Pets

10. International Schools

Our most popular intermediate-level online Chinese course is now available as a stand-alone digital lesson pack. This download Includes a PDF transcript of all 10 dialogs, 10 MP3 audio dialog files, and 10 MP3 audio vocabulary files. Also includes both traditional character and pinyin versions of the dialog.

The ten essential topics covered in the lesson pack which you won’t find in textbooks are:

1. WeChat Communications

2. Mobile Payments

3. Food Delivery

4. Mobile Shopping

5. Ride Hailing

6. Bike Sharing

7. Modern Travel and Transport

8. Favorite Apps

9. New Ways to Exercise

10. Generation Gaps and the Future

Our intermediate-level online Chinese course focused on the basic vocabulary you need for the workplace is now available as a stand-alone digital lesson pack. This download Includes a PDF transcript of all 10 dialogs, 10 MP3 audio dialog files, and 10 MP3 audio vocabulary files. Also includes both traditional character and pinyin versions of the dialog.

The ten highly practical topics covered in the lesson pack which you won’t find in textbooks are:

1. Job Introductions: Practice discussing what you do, but also matters such as work hours, overtime, and business trips.

2. Scheduling Meetings: Coordinating schedules and figuring out who the heck needs to be at what meeting is a key skill!

3. Attending a Meeting: Tasks, responsibilities, deadlines… this is the key info that must be extracted from meetings.

4. Getting IT Support: Computers break and get infected with viruses and malware and stuff. Be sure you can deal with it!

5. Chatting with Co-workers: Ranging from office gossip to critical business intelligence, co-workers have important information you need!

6. Lunch with Co-workers: Eating options vary from office to office and co-worker to co-worker, but lunchtime is a great time to communicate.

7. Communications: Emails, attachments, files, texts, reports, memos… can you keep all your communications straight in Chinese?

8. Preparing a Presentation: When that key client decides to come for a visit, everyone needs to pull together to make that PPT just perfect.

9. Tasking the Intern: So what is the intern going to do? What can he do? Better figure that out so you can keep him productive!

10. Personnel Changes: People come and people go. It’s important to be able to discuss who resigned, how hiring is going, and who’s handling the handover.

Our intermediate-level online Chinese course focused on the slightly more advanced IT vocabulary for the IT department is now available as a stand-alone digital lesson pack. This download Includes a PDF transcript of all 10 dialogs, 10 MP3 audio dialog files, and 10 MP3 audio vocabulary files. Also includes both traditional character and pinyin versions of the dialog.

The ten highly practical topics covered in the lesson pack which you won’t find in textbooks are:

1. Job Introductions: For when you need to communicate with other IT professionals about what you actually do. Includes common vocabulary for positions in IT companies.

2. “9-9-6“ Work Hours: If you’re dealing with Chinese IT companies, you need to be familiar with the hellish work hours that many of them put in on a regular basis.

3. Business Trips: Maybe not every programmer goes on frequent business trips, but when managers and bosses do, everyone is affected.

4. Software and Hardware: Discussions on work computers and work software permeate the discussions of all IT professionals, so make sure you have the basics down.

5. Access and Security: So every employee has root access to the production server? Uh oh… you might need to have this discussion.

6. Working from Home: Sometimes it’s necessary (especially in 2020!). How does the manager feel about it? It’s an important discussion.

7. The Server Is Down: All companies, big and small, suffer from occasional downtime issues. When you’re scrambling to get your service back online, communication is critical.

8. China’s Tech Giants: Have you heard of BAT? Do you know that Baidu is out and ByteDance is in? It’s good to know a bit about the corporate landscape in the world of Chinese IT.

9. FOSS, GIT, and Repositories: A little discussion about code can’t be avoided.

10. Career Advancement: As a senior developer, do you make the leap to management or keep doing your coding thing?