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You know those stories about people lining up for hours at the Mac Store in Palo Alto? Or camping out

overnight to get tickets to a movie premiere? Turns out that it doesn't tend to happen in China for a fairly

simple reason: waiting in line is still something of a foreign concept in most of the country. We don't know

if it's because Chinese people are on average too polite to call out people who cut in line, but as far as

many people are concerned, why join the end when you can just gravitate to somewhere down front and

eventually push your way in?

Learning Chinese? Our Chinese podcast for today is designed for absolute beginners to the Chinese

language. Our podcast centers on a dialogue that is fast but fairly short. Following a quick walk-through,

Echo and David go on to talk about how to make forceful suggestions in Chinese, the sort of thing you

might find useful the next time someone tries to cut into line ahead of you....