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Learning Chinese · in the works

Coming soon

The Landlord

房东

The deposit was never coming back. Then a letter arrives with her name spelled wrong.

Renting · 10 episodes

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Night Shift

夜班

Forty drops by two in the morning, and one address that does not exist.

Working · 12 episodes

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The Visa

签证

Thirty days to fix a stamp nobody will admit is wrong.

Paperwork · 8 episodes

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Table for Nine

九个人的桌子

Nine people, one boss, and a glass you cannot keep refusing.

Dinners · 10 episodes

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My Wife's Mother

丈母娘

She has not said no. She has not said anything.

Family · 12 episodes

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The Third Floor

三楼

Registration is on the third floor. So is everything else, apparently.

Health · 8 episodes

Learning English · in the works

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First Week in London

伦敦第一周

Everything is polite and nothing is clear.

Abroad · 12 episodes

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Group Project

小组作业

Nobody will say out loud that it is not working.

University · 10 episodes

Coming soon

The Interview

面试

Second round. They ask the question she rehearsed, and then one more.

Work · 8 episodes

2 of these are finished. The rest are written down and not yet made — each is twelve scenes that have to be worked out before a word of Chinese is generated, which is the slow part.

Made by the people behind Study Pal, a translator for foreigners living in China. Everything you keep here turns up in your phrases there.