Easy Stories in English

Hello from China! (Conversation)

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Spicy bullfrog, fights with policemen and getting locked out... my first two weeks in China have certainly been eventful! Find out all about my move to Ningbo in today's episode.

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Vocabulary: Bureaucracy, Ultrasound, Bedside manner, SIM card, Apartment complex, Congee, Adzuki bean, Bullfrog, Red bayberry, 'Mad dogs and Englishmen', Sweat, Cicada, Pale, 'A fish out of water', Scavenger hunt

0:00 Intro

01:56 The flight

05:07 The fastest train in the world

06:33 Assaulting a policeman

07:48 Making friends with the locals

10:00 The joys of bureaucracy

15:46 My home away from home

17:46 Finally, I'm rich!

19:32 Get your chopsticks out

25:49 It's too darn hot!

27:50 Comfortable and livable

29:15 Security

32:10 Locked out of the system

34:06 My new job

37:23 The hardest thing you can do

40:35 Outro

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