This week we are covering US timezones on Friday evening, and Asian timezones on Saturday morning.

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As I’m phasing these emails out this month.

You can access the video version of this post here on the RTM Speaking Sprints site.

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I am planning to migrate these pre-reading briefs to the community site only from next week.

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Below are the dates for RTM Sprint sessions in October, November, December.

The first Sprint session of Q4 will be at 6pm UK time on Saturday. And we’re welcoming quite a new members into the community too!

IMPORTANT: If you haven’t already, please go over the community site and log in!

You’ll be able to put all dates in your diary, get video updat…

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A reminder of today’s details:

• Pre-reading: (choose based on your learning needs)

  • Advanced: Restaurant chain under fire for over-priced meals

  • Intermediate: 西贝陷入预制菜质疑

  • Conversations: 西贝的锅气去哪了？

  • Fluent: 西贝能赢罗永浩吗

• Discussion questions:

  • 分享一个这期中你觉得最难理解/喜欢/有用的词，或者一个你学到的句型。

  • 当你作为一名顾客到餐厅用餐时，你是否在乎菜品是预制还是现做？还是更在乎味道与价格？

  • 在信息透明的时代，餐饮企业是否应该将食材和制作…

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This is the last session of this quarter and an end to another 12-week Sprint!

If you haven’t already, please join the community site!

You will get this briefing with video too!

See this link.

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We are live in 15 minutes!

A reminder of today’s details:

• Pre-reading: (choose based on your learning needs)

  • Advanced: Anti-smoking campaigner targets Lu Xun's 100-year-old smoking habit

  • Fluent: 鲁迅：投诉我抽烟？笑死！100年前我就写过你们这种人了

  • Intermediate: 鲁迅手中的香烟，该不该“禁”？

  • Conversations: 鲁迅抽烟会教坏小孩？

• Discussion questions:

  • 分享一个这期中你觉得最难理解/喜欢/有用的词，或者分享一个你学到的句型。

  • 你怎么看待“历史人物的真实一面”和“…

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This week we are covering UK and European timezones in Saturday morning, and Asian / Australasia on Saturday afternoon / evening.

Have you joined the community site yet?

Please make sure you join via this link!

One of the many excellent features is: You can get the discussion questions with video!

Also, this week we have the US Club for US-based mem…

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We are live in 15 minutes!

A reminder of today’s details:

• Pre-reading: (choose based on your learning needs)

  • Advanced: Chinese AI chip maker briefly overtakes Moutai to become China’s most valuable listed company

  • Intermediate: 芯片股王寒武纪

  • Conversations: 寒武纪能当中国的英伟达吗？

  • Fluent: 寒武纪超越茅台成新“股王”，现在买入能赚大钱还是被套？

• Discussion questions:

  • 分享一个这期中你觉得最难理解/喜欢/有用的词，或者分享一个你学到的…

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Hi all!

This week we are covering US timezones on Friday evening, and Asian timezones on Saturday morning.

(European timezones will be at a sociable time next week!)

Two big updates:

• I am starting in-take for the next 3-month Sprint from next week. If you’re interested in carrying on - please let me know!

• I’ve been working on a big upgrade to the Sprint expe…

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We are live in 15 minutes!

A reminder of today’s details:

• Pre-reading: (choose based on your learning needs)

  • Advanced: Mosquito eradication efforts in Guangdong are going too far

  • Intermediate: 南方城市防蚊大战

  • Conversations: 防蚊大战，人比蚊子更累吗？

  • Fluent: 倒积水，平菜地，清天台，拆房子，灭蚊变味了

• Discussion questions:

  • 分享一个这期中你觉得最难理解/喜欢/有用的词，或者分享一个你学到的句型。

  • 政府在防蚊行动中应当扮演主导角色，还是更多依赖居民自我防护？

  • 你同意“简单…

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This week we are covering UK and European timezones on Saturday evening, and US timezones on Saturday morning.

Now onto this week’s details...

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I hope you are doing well.

We are coming to the end of this quarter so I thought I would check in to see how you are getting on.

Two things:

Check-in calls

If you are in the current three-month Sprint (July to September), and haven’t had your 1:1 check-in call, you can book your 20-minute call with me here.

And if you’re on the annual plan and we …

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We are live in 15 minutes!

A reminder of today’s details:

• Pre-reading: (choose based on your learning needs)

  • Advanced: "Jiangsu Super" finally gives Chinese football fans something to cheer about

  • Intermediate: “苏超”点燃消费新活力

  • Conversations: 泼天的富贵到江苏了？

  • Fluent: 玩梗出圈的“苏超”

• Discussion questions:

  • 分享一个这期中你觉得最难理解/喜欢/有用的词，或者分享一个你学到的句型。

  • “地域之争”是多种因素造成的，经济发展水平的差距是否会加剧“地…

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Hi all!

This week we are covering UK and European timezones in Saturday morning, and Asian / Australasia on Saturday afternoon / evening.

⭐️The US Pro Club

There’s a separate meet-up at 10.30am PST, and 1.30pm EST on Saturday US time.

If you’d like to join, please email me and I’ll connect you with Diana who is hosting it, on a separate link.

Now onto this…

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We are live in 15 minutes!

A reminder of today’s details:

• Pre-reading: (choose based on your learning needs)

  • Advanced: Graduate employee takes on Chery Auto and its overtime work culture

  • Intermediate: 奇瑞00后掀桌加班文化

  • Conversations: 00后真的来整顿职场了

  • Fluent: 奇瑞00后员工整顿“加班”：给集团二把手发信“拒绝周六开会”

• Discussion questions:

  • 分享一个这期中你觉得最难理解/喜欢/有用的词，或者分享一个你学到的句型。

  • 为什么 00 后员工相比前几代人更敢…

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Hi all!

This week we are covering US timezones on Friday evening, and Asian timezones on Saturday morning.

(European timezones will be at a sociable time next week!)

Important note: to make it easier to find the pre-reading materials for each session, and the archive, bookmark this page where you’ll find all the previous posts.

Now onto this week’s details.…

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We are live in 15 minutes!

A reminder of today’s details:

• Pre-reading: (choose based on your learning needs)

  • Advanced: Fall of the CEO Monk

  • Intermediate: 少林寺掌门释永信再陷丑闻风波

  • Conversations: 少林寺还是少林公司？

  • Fluent: 释永信的大瓜，不止是桃色新闻那么简单

• Discussion questions:

  • 分享一个这期中你觉得最难理解/喜欢/有用的词，或者分享一个你学到的句型。

  • 你觉得少林寺这样的场所是否可以大规模商业化？商业化的边界在哪里？

  • 公众为什么对宗教界的腐败特别敏感？如果公众长时间失去对宗教的信任，会发生什么后果？

• …

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Hi all!

This week we are covering UK and European timezones on Saturday evening, and US timezones on Saturday morning.

Now onto this week’s details...

Read more

We are live in 15 minutes!

A reminder of today’s details:

• Pre-reading: (choose based on your learning needs)

  • Advanced: There's a new phrase in China's "lie flat" movement

  • Intermediate: 老鼠人：当代低能量年轻人

  • Conversations: “老鼠人”，年轻人的新标签

  • Fluent: 疯狂刷屏的“老鼠人”事件，让多少年轻人确诊了…

• Discussion questions:

  • 分享一个这期中你觉得最难理解/喜欢/有用的词，或者分享一个你学到的句型。

  • 你身边有没有类似“老鼠人”生活状态的人？如果给你放一段时间假，你会选择“高能…

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Hi all!

This week we are covering UK and European timezones in Saturday morning, and Asian / Australasia on Saturday afternoon / evening.

⭐️The US Pro Club

There’s a separate meet-up at 9am PST, and 12pm EST on Saturday US time.

If you’d like to join, please email me and I’ll connect you with Diana who is hosting it.

Now onto this week’s details...

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