Boring Bangongshi: the Chinese Office Comic for Learners

So the team here at AllSet Learning has created a new thing! It’s an office-centric comic strip giving learners little bite-sized chunks of office language, and it’s called Boring 办公室 (Bàngōngshì). It was not originally intended to be COVID-19-focused, but it kind of turned out that way (for now).

Here’s the intro:

And here’s a taste of the comics:

You can click through each comic to get the full text of the dialog, grammar links, editor commentary, etc.

We just launched it, and there are plenty more comics in the pipeline.

So, please: share, discuss, criticize! If you read it, don’t find it funny, but keep reading, that is a win! We’re just trying to create material that learners don’t mind reading, at a level slightly higher than what’s more widely available (but still not too high).

Boring 办公室 (Bàngōngshì).

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John Pasden

John is a Shanghai-based linguist and entrepreneur, founder of AllSet Learning.

Comments

  1. Aaron Posehn Says: March 24, 2020 at 10:09 am

    I like it! Some of them are rather funny 🙂
    Looking forward to more of them.

  2. Thanks for sharing!

  3. Hua Dong Says: March 30, 2020 at 4:28 am

    太棒了,潘老师!真有创意!特别喜欢关键词或语法的不断重复,对学生应该很有帮助,比我们这些Boring的老师有意思多了!我去发给我的学生!你也应该把这些漫画发给微信群的老师们。

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