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Intermediate Mandarin Chinese: "Tell a Chinese Joke!" with eChineseLearning

1,500 views · Published 19 July 2018 · 15:55 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: eChineseLearning · 2018 · Education

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Teacher Dora teaches a joke to an online student in today's lesson. For a Free Trial lesson of your own, with one of our teachers in China, you can sign up here today: https://goo.gl/Mv6JR7
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Having a sense of humor and joking in a second language is a sign that you have gained fluency and comfort with your language skills.

Follow along with Teacher Dora and learn to tell a popular Mandarin Chinese joke:

(NOTE: if you want to hear the punchline of the joke, you have to follow it to the END of the lesson!)

Yìqún rén qù hǎibiān dùjiǎ,
一群人去海边度假，

Fǎguó rén xǐhuan yóuyǒng, 
法国人喜欢游泳，

Déguó rén xǐhuan qiánshuǐ, 
德国人喜欢潜水，

Yìdàlì rén xǐhuan shài tàiyáng,
意大利人喜欢晒太阳，

Zhōngguó rén yí dào hǎibiān jiù wèn zhèlǐ yǒu WiFi ma?
中国人一到海边就问这里有WiFi吗？

...stay tuned to the entire lesson for the punchline!
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In addition, you can learn some Chinese words that come along in this joke such as:

一群 (yìqún) = a group
海边 (hǎibiān) = seaside
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In Buddhist funerals, the idea of a place called Sukhavati, or “Western Paradise,” is considered the favorable destination for a soul that is departing Earth. Different languages have various names for this “heaven” that we hope to go to. In Chinese, we call this place “西天 (xītiān).”. You can learn more about this, along with another popular joke, by following the lesson here: https://goo.gl/GX51rc 
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