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There are two kinds of people for whom this lesson is overkill: those of you who have watches you check

regularly, and those of you who are relatively punctual by nature. For the rest of us, it's useful to be able

to find out what time it is in China. And so in this lesson we focus on learning how to ask this question in

Chinese. We'll leave perfecting the look of stunned amazement you'll offer on hearing you're late up to

you.

Want more? In addition to learning how to ask what time it is, this Chinese podcast also covers a few

simple numbers so that you can understand the answer you get. We also touch briefly on why the past

tense is not always the past tense.