About

We'll admit, our Popup Chinese cheerleaders are probably not what you're expecting. First of all because

they're all men in an industry dominated by the other gender. But also because their previous cheering

experience consists mostly of mild swearing at the Beijing soccer team and the occasional caustic remark

directed at Liu Xiang for selling out to Nike and letting down the hopes and dreams of the Chinese people

in 2008.

Nonetheless, when we asked them to lend a hand and show us how to cheer in Chinese, our squad

members were more than enthusiastic, and charged into the studio. And then silence, and a puzzled

"so what do you want us to say anyway?" And the result was this podcast for absolute beginners to the

Chinese language. So download it and listen as we cover the best and very possibly worst ways to cheer

for almost anything in mandarin, Chinese.