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Given that Friends was such a popular sitcom in the United States, you probably won't be surprised to

hear the show picked up a massive following in China as well. But how much of the show did its Chinese

audience really understand? While we're not ready to say that everything got lost in translation, we'll be

blunt: when we sent our voice actors into the studio to give us an intermediate dialogue inspired by the

show, this is what they came up with....

Learning Chinese? While we normally like beginners, God help you if this is your first Chinese lesson

ever. Our dialogue today is good for learning how to greet friends in casual mandarin, and how to make

suggestions in a less formal tone than you might be used to, but if you're just getting started you might

find the pace a bit fast. And yet there's no need to panic. If this is too fast for you just dig through our

archive of easy Chinese lessons for something a bit slower.