我喜欢听这个播客，但是播客的音量太小了 尤其是女主播 所以我把声音放大一点好好听 但是广告呢 一是突然间来 二是特别特别大声音 每次都会吓我一跳 把我的耳朵弄聋 所以我听着有一种不舒服的感觉 我一直在怕广告什么时候来吓我一跳

This is a useful podcast. Both speakers give you a realistic sense of actual Chinese. It doesn’t put me to sleep like most language materials.

My favorite podcast! 我爱你们！

As a household Mandarin speaker and story lover who needs to improve my vocabulary before visiting Mom in Taiwan, I really love this podcast. However, when I joined as a Patreon I was hoping for transcripts (as promised at $5 level), but then was locked out of MOST story transcripts and was prompted to level up at $7 per month. I don’t mind spending more money, but I don’t like it when I was promised a product at the $5 level then denied that product. Additionally, I was hoping to organize my learning through the patreon membership, but the patreon page and the website are both so disorganized and many portions are locked. So terrible so confusing. After hours of trying to make sense of the sites I gave up. Too bad. What a waste of my time!!

I have never taken the tests but I am somewhere in the HSK 3-4 range. If that is where you are I highly recommend this podcast. I have studied in my free time for a few years. I have always struggled to find audio at my level and this is the best I’ve encountered. Too often things are far beyond my level and I need to translate sentence by sentence or they are so basic that they are not interesting. Some of the episodes are beyond my level but some are in that fantastic place where I can understand about 80% of the conversation and I can work on learning the rest. The show is brilliant and I just signed up to contribute on Patreon.

My favorite podcast for practicing listening. Transcripts are super helpful. Explainer episodes enable learning through context. Appreciate the lack of English and different skill levels

I’ve been using LCTS for almost 4 years now to brush up on my Chinese monthly and yearly since graduating college and completing my degree in the language. It’s really a great way to learn passively but there are so many ways to dig deeper into the lesson and use the tools they provide to learn actively as well!

LCTS is a unique gem among Chinese learning resources! As other reviewers have written, LCTS’ format is engaging (a natural, free-flowing, often humorous dialogue between two smart, articulate people); its content rich (about life, culture, songs, children stories); its resources helpful (including vocabulary lists and transcripts for each episode). But what makes LCTS special are the hosts. Their passion for teaching Chinese comes across in every episode. Through their content and commitment to build community, it is obvious that they care about us (their dear listeners), our stories, and our successes. I am among the many who have made LCTS a part of their Chinese learning journey. Two years into this journey that started with zero Chinese speaking/listening experience, I can honestly say that among all the Chinese learning resources available (podcasts… videos… courses… textbooks), LCTS has made the biggest contribution to my journey and my achievements related to Chinese learning. So, thank you LCTS! I appreciate the effort and energy you have put into your craft in helping us along our journeys.

I have been listening for a while and having clear, authentic material from native speakers makes it much more interesting and enjoyable to learn how Chinese is really spoken. I also just joined the Patreon and the discord community and transcripts there also help me a ton! This is really exactly the podcast I have been needing to improve my Chinese. Thanks (谢谢).

This podcast is truly wonderful. It covers material from short stories and songs, to historical tidbits and children’s tales. The hosts are smart, funny, and engaging, and they do a wonderful job of breaking down and explaining text (but all in mandarin!). As a second-generation learner looking to expand on my vocabulary and listening comprehension, this podcast does all that and more. I highly recommend!

This podcast is awesome. It is perfect for any beginning learner of Mandarin who wants some authentic listening practice. There are podcast stories of varying difficulty levels, so you can continue listen to listen to these stories and benefit from them for years to come along your language learning journey. I find this podcast especially helpful as a mid-level language learner. I couldn’t recommend it enough!!

I am currently studying Chinese and this podcast helps so much. It has great speakers and great stories! Overall, excellent content.

I love the natural flow of the conversation, and the A and B episodes make this easy to follow. I really like the new vocabulary that I learn, on top of the fact that there are so many great sentence examples to follow. Definitely recommend if you want to sound more like a native.

I grew up speaking Chinese with my family but when I moved out I speak and hear less and less. I never want to forget the language so this really helps a whole ton! No matter what skill level you are this us a great addition to your studies. They speak SO clearly, genuinely, and at a good pace. It's silly and upbeat, interesting, and informative. 谢谢你们！

The teachers are entertaining, systematic, find a variety of interesting stories with cultural, social, and/or newsworthy topics, some humorous, some poignant. Transcripts add instruction in written Chinese. Their diction is clear and it is a joy to hear their accent.

Not a bad podcast for intermediate-level Chinese learners. Now if they would just change that AWFUL theme song, they’d probably do a lot better.

为学国语，这博客是最好办法。有时候，声音不够大。

Thanks!

My mandarin level is Intermediate after living in China for a few years. I think these stories are perfect for that level. They are challenging, and I don’t understand 100%, but they are very helpful for conversational speaking/listening

Can the show notes translation and description from Patreon show here ?

我每天都听这个播客！我觉得非常棒！

Glad I found this

The couple’s chemistry makes me smile and very clear pronunciation, especially female. Male’s voice quality is very good too.

I like this podcast because it helps me recognize sounds and also because this is a very standard accent and it is great to just pick up and listen to. What i don’t like about this is that i have no idea what they are saying. I am trying to learn chinese, but i am not fluent yet so i don’t know what she is saying. I wish there was an english translation after every few sentences.

This podcast occupies a unique space in Chinese-teaching podcasts, and it serves a great unmet need for many of us language learners. Most Chinese-teaching products out there are 1) geared toward children with inane stories of farm animals and/or 2) geared toward beginners who need extensive native-language support. This podcast is so unique because it is aimed at an audience who know enough Chinese to understand a podcast narrated entirely in Chinese. It also is aimed at adults with sophisticated themes and stories. Although I can get by fairly well in Chinese conversation, I have been blown away by the sheer number of new vocabulary words I pick up each week. This is truly a remarkable resource and worth subscribing.

This podcast uses all Chinese all the time, even for beginner lessons. The stories and songs are fun and hold your attention. By far the best podcast I have found for learning Mandarin.

After learning Chinese for three months now I can say as a fact listening is the most crucial part of the learning process. Majority of my learning has come from listening, primarily ChinesePod which is a great resource, however I believe it’s the most useful when you solely listen to the dialogues in the beginning. I was getting a little bored with it and wanted longer form content to diversify my listening, so I discovered this podcast. At first, I thought learning through immersion on a 100% Chinese podcast with having only a high elementary level of comprehension would be impossible. At first even the novices were challenging, but now it’s quickly getting easier and it’s amazing how just looking at the vocabulary list “unlocks” my understanding of the story and I love that they give examples with vocabulary I do know to impress the new input. 太谢谢你们了！

Fantasic

我第一次听 普通讨论的时候没问题，但是开始说“孩子经常被问的问题”的时候，问题很简单，比讨论的部分简单多了，但是还是被重复说了好几次。第一次我以为我不小心按了往后30秒。但是我没有！就一直重复说那么容易的问题，换来换去谁对谁说。“你叫什么名字？”......“你叫什么名字？”......“你叫什么名字？”......“你叫什么名字？”......

孩子不反对听，我也顺道复习中文。

很有帮助

Their accents are really standard and it’s great listening practice . I really hope that there will be more content that will teach us words that we can use in a more 口语 settings! - 陈予安

Perfect for intermediate and beyond. Thank you guys for all the little explanations while keeping the content interesting! I especially like when you cover current events/pop culture/internet culture. I lived in China for 8 years and keep up with my Chinese with this podcast!

Great Podcast and really worth the Patreon. You get a lot of material on there, especially for $5/month. I love the conversational format of the shows. Only suggestion is I wish they would take a little bit more of an extensive reading approach: fewer vocab words and more repetition of those vocab words. (I’ve seen a lot of progress from Mandarin Companion and Chinese Breeze and would give an unreserved 5 stars if this was a podcast version of extensive reading at the 750, 1000, etc character levels.)

This podcast is excellent, and I’m very appreciative of all the speakers on the show! Even if you speak, or understand, no Mandarin at all— as was the case for me when I began— even listening to this podcast (which is only in Mandarin), as well as reading the episode details, will lead you in the right direction to learn as much as you’d like. It is even helpful (and definitely fun!) to listen to the episodes several times. I would give this podcast 10 stars if I could, as it has helped me so, so much. I recommend it very highly!

It’s hard find a podcast that takes the time to explain the meanings in Chinese. Helps me to have a deeper understanding of the language. Thanks for the great podcast!

Decent podcast. Not for beginners as they speak really quick, but that does get you used to hearing Chinese like it’s really spoken. My only criticism is that most episodes really aren’t stories, but lyrics to sappy love songs. Since nearly all Chinese learners have never heard these songs, the lyrics mean nothing to us. These episodes are cheesy and boring.

Nice because they only speak in Chinese.

Heard one episode today. Thought all the episodes are story telling, but apparently some are conversations. Really liked the conversation, it was very insightful. However, too much information or new words per episode. Would like to suggest focus on few new words, proverbs or slangs at a time. Thank you and keep up the good work !

Great podcast for Chinese listening comprehension and vocabulary in a fun and informative way. I’ve been studying Chinese for years and this is one of the best resources I’ve found. Suggest this to anyone who wants better listening.

I’m currently HSK-3 and this helps me learn new words and grammar structures. Thank you for putting the pinyin and English definitions in the details

自己觉得你们两个真的很可爱。

This podcast is really great for intermediate level learners to practice their listening skills. There is a ton of material on the web for beginners and of course you can find Chinese language programs that are for native speakers and advanced students, but very little exists for the intermediate level. 感谢你们给我们这个播客！

我真的很感謝你們的努力！正好我需要的！真的幫助我提高中文水平！我聽你們就很開心。這是一個特別的節目！請繼續製作更多！你們很棒！這個可以改變我的中文。我也覺得話題都很有意思的。我找到了很多不同學中文的資源不過這個節目是最好的之一！不要懷疑啦！我在上班的路上。我也學到很多文化的東西，歌曲啊

Thank you so much to whoever making this happen.

I love this podcast because it reminds me so much of the class format studying at 北师大 in China. Great resource!

You guys are fantastic.

I love that no English is used in the explanation of the stories - this is perfect for my level and this type of immersive learning will boost my Chinese and is unlike the typical traditional educational materials out there. Thank you so much for creating this content!!

Having spent the last 6 months of my life dedicated to learning Chinese I wish I would have come across this podcast sooner. I immediately joined their Patreon. Don’t waste your money on a textbook. Comprehensible input is the way to go. This offers comprehensible input for all levels. They use Chinese to explain all the vocabulary and integrate the words into interesting conversations. Through this you are exposed to the vocal multiple times, and this it becomes easier to acquire and truly embed the vocabulary into your long term memory. If you are serious about learning Chinese, this is the way to go. Highly recommend contributing to their Patreon.

I haven't seen anything like this before. It's amazing that it's entirely in Mandarin, but has a lower target vocabulary AND be fluid and professional quality at the same time. I listen to this in bed, in the car, while walking... anytime I can.