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Talking about Chinese New Year | English podcast for intermediate learners (B1-B2)

🧧 CHINESE NEW YEAR | Learn English with Real Conversations | English Time Podcast 🎵 Can you hear that catchy song? That's "Gong Xi Fa Cai" — and it means Chinese New Year is here! In this episode, we explore one of the biggest celebrations in the world: Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). Whether you're learning about it for the first time or you celebrate it yourself and want to explain the traditions in English — this episode is for you! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: ✨ Chinese Zodiac animals — 2026 is the Year of the Horse! 🐴 ✨ Why billions of people travel home every year (the world's largest migration!) ✨ Special foods and their meanings — dumplings, fish, and a lucky coin tradition ✨ Red envelopes, fireworks, and the legend of the monster "Nian" ✨ The Spring Festival Gala — China's biggest TV event ✨ Useful phrases: "Gong Xi Fa Cai" & "Xin Nian Kuai Le" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 KEY VOCABULARY: • Zodiac (生肖) — A cycle of 12 animals representing different birth years • Migration (迁徙) — When large groups of people move from one place to another • Prosperity (繁荣/兴旺) — Success, good fortune, and wealth • Surplus (盈余/多余) — Having more than you need • Superstition (迷信) — Believing in luck, magic, or things not based on science • Ambitious (有野心的) — Having big goals and dreams ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💭 REFLECTION QUESTION: What's YOUR favorite holiday tradition? It could be from any culture, any holiday. Tell us in the comments! 👇 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 ABOUT THIS PODCAST: English Time Channel is your cozy corner for English fluency, confidence, and connection. We create warm, stress-free content for intermediate English learners (B1-B2). No pressure. No judgment. Just two friends talking about life — and helping you improve your English along the way. Step by step, let's improve together. 💪 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👍 SUPPORT US: If you enjoyed this episode, please: ✅ LIKE this video ✅ SUBSCRIBE to our channel ✅ Leave a COMMENT — we read every one! Your support helps more learners find us. Thank you! 🙏 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #ChineseNewYear #SpringFestival #LearnEnglish #ESL #EnglishPodcast #EnglishListening #YearOfTheHorse #2026 #英语学习 #春节 #过年 #EnglishTimeChannel