This podcast is in Mandarin, which was technically my first language, but my English is definitely stronger. From what I gather, my Mandarin speaking and listening skills are about equivalent to a 5th grader in China. I’m used to listening to things in English, so I have to focus to suppress the English in order to actually somewhat understand them. There’s this kind of distracting background music in the intro that sounds kind of rebellious/high pacing, which makes sense for the subject of the episode, which seems to be “Don’t need a reason to travel.” In the beginning, they seem to talk about spontaneously going on trips on their motorcycles. In terms of format, it just seems to be three people talking about different trips they’ve had, and what kinds of fun or trouble they’ve had doing them. Listening to the voices, they have pretty thick Beijing/northern China accents, although I can still understand them since my family’s from farther north than Beijing.

The one thing I can’t seem to get over, though, is the constant background music. It’s kind of distracting and unnecessary in my opinion, as the songs seem to have some kind of lyrics that conflict with the actual conversation the people are having.