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Qing Wen (请问) is a popular podcast published weekly by ChinesePod. While the show is not focused on Chinese grammar exclusively, the majority of Qing Wen episodes revolve around a grammar point, or comparing the usage of several words. It is useful to have an index of all the grammar points covered on Qing Wen. (See also the ChinesePod Qing Wen episode listing.)

Grammar Points by Episode

QW0001: Using 看 (kàn) and 看起来 (kàn qilai)
QW0002: Reduplication of Verbs
QW0003: Using 又 (yòu) and 再 (zài)
QW0004: Saying Sorry
QW0005: Name-Calling, Chinese-Style
QW0006: 了 (le): Something's About to Happen
QW0007: Negating Verbs: When to Use 没有 (méiyǒu), When to Use 不 (bù)
QW0008: Thinking in Chinese: 觉得 (juéde), 认为 (rènwéi) and 以为 (yǐwéi)
QW0009: We Answer
QW0010: To Finish Something Off: Verb 好 (hǎo)
QW0011: 你好 (Nǐhǎo) is a Many-Splendored Thing
QW0012: It's Not Hard to Say Goodbye
QW0013: All About 所有 (suǒyǒu) and 都 (dōu)
QW0014: More or less? 多 (duō) and 少 (shǎo)
QW0015: You Can and Will Use 会 (huì)!
QW0016: Two 'Iffy' Words
QW0017: The Double 了 (le) phenomenon
QW0018: Beyond Or: Another Use of 还是 (háishi)
QW0019: All About Measure Words
QW0020: Two words for '2'
QW0021: Don't Underestimate the Power of 呢 (ne)
QW0022: Excuse Us!
QW0023: A Little Bit About 一点儿
QW0024: More and More
QW0025: Just Say Yes
QW0026: Mainland & Taiwan Lingo: Transportation
QW0027: Most Frequently Asked Question in China
QW0028: What does 厉害 (lìhai) mean, anyway?
QW0029: Mainland & Taiwan Lingo: Electronics
QW0030: You talking about me?
QW0031: Using Verbs 不出来 (bu chūlai), 得出来 (de chūlai)
QW0032: Extreme Chinese - 不得了 (bùdéliǎo)
QW0033: The 又...又 (Yòu...Yòu) Episode
QW0034: 一边...一边 ... (yībiān...yībiān...)
QW0035: Even you can use the (连...都...) pattern
QW0036: 还是 háishi OR 或者 huòzhě
QW0037: Making Comparisons Using 比 bǐ
QW0038: 一...就... (yī...jiù...) pattern
QW0039: Embrace your Fears! 怕 (pà)...Adj
QW0040: 无论 (wúlùn) No matter...
QW0041: You Must Listen to this Episode - 非...不可 (fēi...bù kě)
QW0042: Ending Your Sentence with 吧 (ba)
QW0043: Ending your sentence with 嘛（ma)
QW0044: Xīnkǔ 辛苦
QW0045: Ending your sentence with 啊 & 呀 (a & ya)
QW0046: Lo and La （咯 & 啦）
QW0047: More than 50 kuai!
QW0048: Aren't you.... （不是.... 吗）
QW0049: I Don't Have the Strength (... 不动）
QW0050: I Can/Can't Afford it (...得起 & ...不起）
QW0051: I Just.... 刚 & 刚才（gāng & gāngcái）
QW0052: Do You Remember....
QW0053: ...都 (dōu): The Bryan Adams pattern
QW0054: The Attitude Pattern (yǒu shénme... 有什么...)
QW0055: Clarifying how to use "every" 每（měi）
QW0056: Colors, By Degrees
QW0057: Addressing People
QW0058: The 是...的 (Shì...de) Pattern
QW0059: Measure Words for Counting People
QW0060: 会 (Huì) and 能 (Néng) Face-off
QW0061: The My Minefield
QW0062: The Pretty Podcast
QW0063: Making Negative Comparisons
QW0064: Don't Never Say Never
QW0065: Using 'Almost'
QW0066: No Wonder!
QW0067: Numbers in Chinese
QW0068: Last and Next
QW0069: 麻烦你 (Máfan Nǐ) to Say Please
QW0070: Good, Bad and Otherwise
QW0071: When 比较 (bǐjiào) becomes 更 (gèng)
QW0072: Often: Using 常常，经常，通常 (chángcháng, jīngcháng, tōngcháng)
QW0073: 请 (Qǐng) - Please and Beyond
QW0074: The Magic Word 让 (Ràng)
QW0075: Using 除了。。。以外 (Chúle... Yǐwài)
QW0076: Understanding 了解 (Liǎojiě) and 理解 (Lǐjiě)
QW0077: Always in Chinese: 总是 (zǒngshì) and 老是 (lǎoshi)
QW0078: Being Vague: 大概 (dàgài), 左右 (zuǒyòu), 上下 (shàngxià)
QW0079: All the Things You Can Hit: 打 (dǎ)
QW0080: Stop in the Name of the 法 (fǎ)
QW0081: Lucky Duckies
QW0082: Slang-ular Momentum
QW0083: Talking with Numbers
QW0084: Funny Business -- 搞笑，好笑，可笑
QW0085: Interesting or Boring?
QW0086: Taking it all off
QW0087: Sorry and Thank You
QW0088: Making Commands More Emphatic with 千万 and 一定
QW0089: About Face! A Multi-faceted Look at 面子
QW0090: Letting go with 放
QW0091: Broken, Busted, and Smashed
QW0092: Dropping and Losing 丢, 弄丢，丢掉
QW0093: Picking Up 拿
QW0094: The Magic Word 把
QW0095: How Far Away are You From Understanding 离？
QW0096: Are You Happy, Content, or Delighted?
QW0097: Pain and Suffering 伤心, 难受，郁闷 ,不爽，难过
QW0098: Hot and Cool 热, 烫 , 凉 , 冷
QW0099: Podcast Language 1
QW0100: Podcast Language 2
QW0101: Podcast Language 3
QW0102: To do
QW0103: Finally
QW0104: How Long Has This Been Going On?
QW0105: Hate is a Very Strong Word
QW0106: How're You Doing? 得
QW0107: Bringing it All Back Home With 回去 and 回来
QW0108: Measure Word Fundamentals: 个，只，条，张
QW0109: Measure Words for Food
QW0110: Pair, Set, Match 双, 副, 对 , 套
QW0111: Earlier and Later than Expected: 才and 就
QW0112: 把 Humbug
QW0113: Hotels, Hostels and Restaurants
QW0114: How to Say "and" in Chinese
QW0115: 都......了Already
QW0116: Coming Up Next: 接下来，然后，还有，那么
QW0117: Fruit Basket of Cause-Effect
QW0118: Giving 给 Another Look grammar
QW0119: Dare to Use 敢 grammar
QW0120: Nothing More Than Only and Just grammar
QW0121: Even If... grammar
QW0122: Originally Original grammar
QW0123: Flexible, Not Reflexive grammar
QW0124: With Regards to 对 and 对于 grammar
QW0125: Expressing Location with 边 and 面 grammar
QW0126: Picking things up: 拿、带、取 verb, grammar
QW0127: 次，遍，趟: Measuring Times measure words, time
QW0128: Ways to Describe Things that are "Inside" position, directions, grammar
QW0129: Time Period Patterns with 末, 底, 初 time, grammar
QW0130: Pulling Out all the Stops for Complement 住 complement, verb, grammar
QW0131: Rhetorical Question Marker 难道 questions, grammar
QW0132: 舍不得 feelings, grammar
QW0133: Talking about others: 别的，其他的，另外的 other, grammar
QW0134: Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes change, verb, grammar
QW0135: Pay Verbs verb, paying, grammar, bill, credit cards, mortgage
QW0136: The White Spectrum of Meaning white, grammar, culture, colors
QW0137: The Black Spectrum of Meaning illegal, black, grammar, culture, colors
QW0138: How to Start a Conversation with Chinese People culture, relationships, conversation, questions
QW0139: The Red Spectrum of Meaning colors, red, culture, happiness, grammar, popular
QW0140: Keeping 收 and 受 Straight grammar, verb, accept
QW0141: The Yellow and Green Spectrum of Meaning movies, books, culture, green, yellow, colors
QW0142: Passive Verbs and 被 preposition, bei, passive, grammar
QW0143: Talking about Talking in Chinese to say, to speak, to talk, to discuss, verb, grammar
QW0144: Back to Basics: Making People Plural with 们 (men) noun, people, plural
QW0145: Describing Fear adjective, verb, grammar, fear, scary
QW0146: Lovey-Dovey Terminology relationships, names
QW0147: Suffix Magic noun, verb, adjective, grammar
QW0148: Must-Have Modals grammar, verb, modals
QW0149: Realization, Reality and Authenticity wish, perception
QW0150: Feelings affection, emotions, feelings
QW0151: Suffixes for Describing People jobs, professions, people
QW0152: Going, Leaving, and Leaving for Good
QW0153: Doing the math with 算 (suàn)
QW0154: Getting into the habit with 习惯 (xíguàn)
QW0155: Future fun with 会 (hui4), 要 (yao4), and 将 (jiang1)
QW0156: 人家: Other People and Pouty Girls
QW0157: Some uses of 些
QW0158: Whatever, Wherever, Whoever
QW0159: Separable Verbs
QW0160: Comparing Buts: 但 and 却
QW0161: Festivals, Holidays, Vacations, and Leave
QW0162: Revisiting Before and After
QW0163: Making people do things with 让，令，and 使
QW0164: What is up with 由
QW0165: Speaking with 跟 (gen) and 对 (dui)
QW0166: There Is No Try
QW0167: Various Speech Acts and 向 (xiang)
QW0168: Ending, Completing, Finishing
QW0169: Four Uses of the Complement 起来 (qilai)
QW0170: An Introduction to Chengyu
QW0171: Keeping and Leaving
QW0172: Dealing with 管 (guan)
QW0173: Losing and Forgetting
QW0174: Surfing the Web Chinese Style
QW0175: Nothing more than 而已 (eryi) and 罢了 (bale)
QW0176: The 着 (zhe) Chronicles: How We Verb
QW0177: Possible, Possibly, Possibility
QW0178: The 着 (zhe) Chronicles: Actions in Progress
QW0179: Adjectives with 是 (shi)
QW0180: The 着 (zhe) Chronicles: Verbs as States
QW0181: Actually
QW0182: Back in the Day with "当"
QW0183: So (adjective) that...
QW0184: Making the Most of 最 (zui)
QW0185: The Various Guises of "Until"
QW0186: Of Soldiers and Military People
QW0187: Eating Idioms, Part 1
QW0188: Eating Idioms, Part 2
QW0189: Eating Idioms, Part 3
QW0190: By Myself, So Alone
QW0191: Getting to the Bottom of 到底
QW0192: Rainbow
QW0193: Deadly Complements of Degree
QW0194: Preferences and Druthers
QW0195: Actually Contrary with 倒
QW0196: 就 for Emphasis
QW0197: When Opposites Collide (1)
QW0198: When Opposites Collide (2)
QW0199: The Complement 不了
QW0200: The Complement 不下
QW0201: 为 and 为了
QW0202: Two tones, two meanings for 转
QW0203: Unfairness, Misblaming, and Feeling Wronged
QW0204: Sleeping in
QW0205: Manly Men and Womanly Women
QW0206: Going and Leaving
QW0207: Strong
QW0208: Paying Attention and Caring
QW0209: Strong (in the abstract)
QW0210: Words with Heart
QW0211: Words with Heart (Part 2)
QW0212: Punctuation Marks
QW0213: Building, Establishing, and Creating
QW0214: Translation Tools
QW0215: The Depth of 深
QW0216: Western Brands in Chinese
QW0217: Addressing People Revisited
QW0218: Pinyin Terms
QW0219: The Complexities of 'De'
QW0220: 'Very' and Other Degree Modifiers
QW0221: The Glorious了(le): Part 1
QW0222: The Glorious了(le): Part 2
QW0223: 过(guo)
QW0224: 一下，一会儿，and 一点儿
QW0225: Measure Words for Animals
QW0226: 一下，一会儿，and 一点儿
QW0227: How to be Negative
QW0228: Essential Math Terms
QW0229: Lucky and Unlucky Numbers in Chinese
QW0230: Water
QW0231: An Improved Understanding of Improve
QW0232: Christmas in Chinese
QW0233: Giving Gifts in China
QW0234: Old and New
QW0235: Popular Slang from 2011
QW0236: New Year's Well-Wishes
QW0237: Family Member Terms of Address
QW0238: International Currency
QW0239: Prices and Expenses
QW0240: Salaries and Income
QW0241: Onomatopoeias
QW0242: Email Terms and Composition
QW0243: A Qing Wen to Our Listeners
QW0244: Why oh Why
QW0245: Number One Idioms
QW0246: Always Reexamined
QW0247: the Correct Usage of Correct
QW0248: WithstAnding 和，跟，and 与
QW0249: Meet up Frenzy
QW0250: A Much-Needed Discussion of 需要 and 要
QW0251: No Worries No Problem
QW0252: The Stable 稳 (wen)
QW0253: The Different Differences of Different and Difference
QW0254: Hiring and Employment
QW0255: The Preposition 于 (yu)
QW0256: Words with 可 (ke)
QW0257: Additional Conjunctions
QW0258: Expectations and Predictions
QW0259: Taking Transportation
QW0260: Random and Reckless
QW0261: Addressing Women
QW0262: Ferocious Tiger Idioms
QW0263: Rules and Regulations
QW0264: Petty Chicken Idioms
QW0265: 看 You Dig it?
QW0266: The Quick, Smooth 马
QW0267: Regardless
QW0268: Duplicitous Snake Idioms
QW0269: Whether or Not to Use "if"

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 # QW0001: [http://chinesepod.com/lessons/using-%E7%9C%8B-kan-and-%E7%9C%8B%E8%B5%B7%E6%9D%A5-kan-qilai Using 看 (kàn) and 看起来 (kàn qilai)]
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 # QW0002: [http://chinesepod.com/lessons/reduplication-of-verbs Reduplication of Verbs]
 # QW0003: [http://chinesepod.com/lessons/using-%E5%8F%88-you-and-%E5%86%8D-zai Using 又 (yòu) and 再 (zài)]