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"Don't worry about me," the voice on the phone hoarsely whispered after its wave of violent coughing

finally subsided. "I'll be down in an hour so we can keep working on that report."

Join us in our Absolute Beginner lesson for today as we learn a polite way of telling others to keep

themselves and their infections out of your working space. There is a lot of simple but useful mandarin

in this podcast. In addition to introducing a number of common adjectives you can use to express your

fatigue and frustration, we also give you a simple sentence pattern you can use whenever you're feeling

under the weather yourself.