The Passive-Aggressive Masseuse

About

The Chinese massage had started innocently enough, with the standard allotment of questions on age,

nationality and marital status. But then almost imperceptibly it began to go downhill. First came the

bruising kidney rub, and then what could only be called hyper-aggressive cupping. The masseuse was

never overtly offensive, being almost professional to a fault, but she also never missed a pressure point.

On a separate note, our apologies if the last few days have been a bit light on podcasts. We've just

moved into our new headquarters at Popup Towers and things have been a bit chaotic shuffling furniture

back and forth. We're back on a regular production schedule now and will have some more advanced

materials coming out later this week. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this one.

Sentences

你舒服吗?

nǐ shūfu ma ?

Are you comfortable?

我很舒服,为什么?啊!

wǒ hěn shūfu , wèishénme ? a !

I'm very comfortable, why? Arg!

开玩笑。

kāi wánxiào 。

Just kidding.

Vocabulary

你

nǐ

you

pronoun

我

wǒ

I

pronoun

吗

ma

(question particle)

question

为什么

wèishénme

why

question

很

hěn

very

adverb

舒服

shūfu

comfortable

adjective

忙

máng

busy

adjective

累

lèi

tired

adjective

饿

è

hungry

adjective

打

dǎ

to hit

verb

掐

qiā

to pinch

verb

开玩笑

kāi wánxiào

to play a joke

verb