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We know that many of you admire Brendan and Echo for their uncanny ability to make mandarin accessible without reducing it to baby-talk. But what you may not realize is that central to this is a hard-fought

policy we created of not letting Brendan discuss Chinese grammar until the Elementary level. And this

is more than a matter of keeping things easy: it's a defensive mechanism to prevent our ten minute

podcasts from growing into half hour Odysseys which require serious editing work to get useable.

That said, there are times when Brendan is right and we've got to just throw some grammar your way. And

this podcast is one of those times, because we want to introduce the continuous aspect: how to describe

an action that is ongoing in Chinese. But even if you hate grammar, you should listen in because we'll

temper the book smarts with the perfect excuse for getting out of conversation. So take a listen. And

if you have any questions or comments? Leave a post in our discussion section, or write us anytime at

echo@popupchinese.com.