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Learning Chinese through Stories

Learning Chinese through Stories

Simeng 402 episodes Latest May 17, 2026

Learning Chinese through Stories (LCTS听故事说中文) is a Chinese language podcast that uses over 99% target language to create authentic and immersive content. It covers a wide range of topics and proficiency levels from Novice to Advanced. Each episode is divided into a story part (A) and a story explanation part (B), accompanied by annotated vocabulary and transcripts. The podcast helps learners improve their listening and reading skills through engaging narratives.

Episodes

3.2.21A《失眠的人》Story May 17, 2026 08:42 Welcome to 听故事说中文, the podcast where stories come alive to help you improve your Chinese language proficiency and cultural competency. Today, we're talking about something so many of us can relate to: tossing and turning in the middle of the night. We'll follow the story of Chen Mo. On paper, she has the perfect life—a high-level corporate job, a happy family, and a beautiful home. Even her bosses
3.1.30B《称体重背后的故事》Story Walkthrough May 6, 2026 50:50 Welcome to 听故事说中文, the podcast where stories come alive to help you improve your Chinese language proficiency and cultural competency. Today, we're talking about champion diver Quan Hongchan. While fans celebrated her recent gold medal, many noticed how visibly thin she's become. Behind her flawless dives is a grueling, almost heartbreaking battle with the scale. We'll explore the extreme discipli
3.1.30A《称体重背后的故事》Story Apr 19, 2026 10:25 Welcome to 听故事说中文, the podcast where stories come alive to help you improve your Chinese language proficiency and cultural competency. Today, we're talking about champion diver Quan Hongchan. While fans celebrated her recent gold medal, many noticed how visibly thin she's become. Behind her flawless dives is a grueling, almost heartbreaking battle with the scale. We'll explore the extreme discipli
3.1.29B《业绩下滑的老板们,用AI监控员工》Story Walkthrough Mar 24, 2026 53:11 Welcome to 听故事说中文, the podcast where stories come alive to help you improve your Chinese language proficiency and cultural competency. Have you ever felt like someone was watching you? For Pipi, a 32-year-old working in Beijing, that feeling became a literal reality overnight. Her company, struggling with declining profits, decided to install high-tech AI surveillance—cameras that don't just recor
3.1.29A《业绩下滑的老板们,用AI监控员工》Story Feb 21, 2026 11:36 Welcome to 听故事说中文, the podcast where stories come alive to help you improve your Chinese language proficiency and cultural competency. Have you ever felt like someone was watching you? For Pipi, a 32-year-old working in Beijing, that feeling became a literal reality overnight. Her company, struggling with declining profits, decided to install high-tech AI surveillance—cameras that don't just recor
2.3.35B《安静地,把每一球投好》Story Walkthrough Feb 8, 2026 55:52 Welcome to 听故事说中文, the podcast where stories come alive to help you improve your Chinese language proficiency and cultural competency. In today's episode, we are diving into the world of sports, but we aren't talking about loud personalities or flashy headlines. Instead, we're looking at Yoshinobu Yamamoto, a pitcher who redefined success through quiet persistence. Yamamoto wasn't the tallest or t
2.3.35A《安静地,把每一球投好》Story Jan 11, 2026 09:16 Welcome to 听故事说中文, the podcast where stories come alive to help you improve your Chinese language proficiency and cultural competency. In today's episode, we are diving into the world of sports, but we aren't talking about loud personalities or flashy headlines. Instead, we're looking at Yoshinobu Yamamoto, a pitcher who redefined success through quiet persistence. Yamamoto wasn't the tallest or t
2.3.34B《天才》Story Walkthrough Dec 25, 2025 42:17 Welcome to 听故事说中文, the podcast where stories come alive to help you improve your Chinese language proficiency and cultural competency. This week, we've got a powerful, satirical story about a young man who is, quite literally, a "testing genius." He did everything right: top student every single year, culminating in scoring the highest in the province on the college entrance exam—the Zhuangyuan. B
2.3.34A《天才》Story Dec 19, 2025 12:03 Welcome to 听故事说中文, the podcast where stories come alive to help you improve your Chinese language proficiency and cultural competency. This week, we've got a powerful, satirical story about a young man who is, quite literally, a "testing genius." He did everything right: top student every single year, culminating in scoring the highest in the province on the college entrance exam—the Zhuangyuan. B
2.3.32A《妈妈为什么要打工》 Story walkthrough Nov 23, 2025 58:29 Welcome to 听故事说中文, the podcast where stories come alive to help you improve your Chinese language proficiency and cultural competency. In today's episode, we're sharing a deeply moving and personal account from a factory in Kunshan, Jiangsu in 2014, focusing on the lives of migrant women workers—who are also mothers. down her face as she writes. What she wrote was a heartbreaking, tightly-packed l
2.3.32A《妈妈为什么要打工》 Story Nov 7, 2025 09:27 Welcome to 听故事说中文, the podcast where stories come alive to help you improve your Chinese language proficiency and cultural competency. In today's episode, we're sharing a deeply moving and personal account from a factory in Kunshan, Jiangsu in 2014, focusing on the lives of migrant women workers—who are also mothers. down her face as she writes. What she wrote was a heartbreaking, tightly-packed l
3.1.28A《以自己的方式成长》Story Walkthrough Oct 8, 2025 01:08:53 Welcome to 听故事说中文, the podcast where stories come alive to help you improve your Chinese language proficiency and cultural competency. Today, we're sharing the incredible true story of a young man named Tong Haoran. At just 24, he's a photographer who, along with his friends, customized a Ford Mustang race car from scratch and became the first team from mainland China to ever complete the world-fa

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