Podcast
Mandarin Shadow Daily
A new Mandarin lesson every day, made for listening with no screen: graded stories to shadow, grammar taken apart, survival phrases for China, listening quizzes, a chat between a learner and a native speaker, a weekly audio drama and slow Chinese news. Every episode is graded to an HSK level and leaves you pauses to speak out loud.
Want to see the words as well as hear them? Every kind of lesson here has an illustrated video version on our YouTube channel, with the characters, pinyin and English on screen, new every day for HSK 1 to 3.
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Every day of the week
Sunday
Slow Chinese News
this week's news from China in simple Mandarin
Monday
Shadow Story
a graded story to listen to and repeat
Tuesday
Grammar in Focus
one grammar pattern, taken apart and practised
Wednesday
Survival Chinese
the phrases for one real situation in China
Thursday
Listen and Answer
a listening quiz with spoken choices
Friday
Two Hosts
an English learner and a native speaker chat about one topic
Saturday
Audio Drama
a graded audio serial, a new episode each week
Latest episodes
2026-10-19 · 9:25
Shadow Story (HSK 1): Xiaoming's Saturday 小明的星期六
Listen to and repeat a short story about a boy named Xiaoming and his Saturday at home and at the shop. You will practise simple sentences with 是, 有, 想, 要, 在 and 了.