Back when we were in college, no-one thought twice about Jack's accent or the beady glint in his eye. The pre-med students kept pretty much to themselves anyway, and were considered an insular lot by the rest of us. Looking back, the only sign something was really different about Jack might have been the time he and a few resident neurologists destroyed a local pub which refused to serve them rum. So... I suppose you can say I'm a bit surprised by what Jack's made of himself.

In this Chinese lesson, we bring a taste of the high seas to Popup Chinese. So hail all scurvy knaves, because this lesson has all the mandarin ye be needing to sack and pillage your way through the South China Seas. In additional a healthy dose of high frequency pirate vocab, this lesson also introduces a Chinese grammar point that will help you express surprise and amazement at the perils of a life on the sea.