His Mom Has a Secret Cooking Channel | Intermediate Mandarin Podcast

At lunch, Leo's short-video app recommended an account whose profile picture was a bowl of soup. It was his mother. She's sixty-one, she's been posting cooking videos for five months, she has about four hundred followers — and nobody in the family knows. Leo has now watched all thirty-one videos twice, but he hasn't pressed follow, because following would show her his name. In this episode, Leo and Mia talk through what he found: the wordless video of the old apartment posted at 10:40pm, the comment section agreeing that her son doesn't eat properly, and the four-minute phone call where she asked how to make the subtitles bigger — and he never asked why. Should he tell her he's seen it, knowing that telling her might end it? Ting Mandarin is a lifestyle podcast for Mandarin learners who want to learn without sitting down for a lesson. Follow conversations about everyday life in Mandarin you can actually understand, with synchronized Simplified Chinese and concise English subtitles. In this episode you'll hear natural Mandarin about 短视频 (short videos), 粉丝 (followers), 博主 (creators), and the things parents say to strangers that they don't say at home. 00:00 The account the app recommended at lunch 01:21 Thirty-one videos, filmed one-handed 02:30 The old apartment, posted at 10:40pm 04:40 What she says while cutting ginger 05:57 A four-minute phone call 07:30 To tell her, or not New conversations every week — follow so you don't miss the next one. #LearnMandarin #MandarinPodcast #ChineseListening