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Mandarin Chinese · Advanced Level 1
The Company's Name
Stand at the first window of the market-regulation bureau with Lan: say you'd like to register a company, give its name, hear that the name is already taken, offer another one, and hear that it can be used.
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Mandarin Chinese · 12 levels
Advanced Level 1 Audio instruction: English 30 lessons
Owen and Lan start a tea company: licences and permits, a booth at the tea expo, a contract with an American chain, then a village wedding that brings Mrs. Lin back after forty-five years. Learn the Chinese of work and papers.
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Advanced Level 2 Audio instruction: English 30 lessons
A late frost burns the buds on every hill around West Lake. With a contract to honour, a shop in Seattle losing its lease and cheap fakes on offer, Owen and Lan look for honest tea as far as Guangzhou. Learn the Chinese of news, negotiation and bad luck.
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Advanced Level 3 Audio instruction: English 30 lessons
Mrs. Lin comes home to the village she left in 1985, and three old friends share a teapot again. Then someone sells fake tea under Owen's name, and he takes them on. Learn to complain, argue a case, and give a speech at a birthday banquet.
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