This intermediate-level Mandarin course combines practical conversation skills with cultural understanding. Designed for learners who have mastered the basics, it covers essential real-life scenarios including making plans, healthcare situations, workplace conversations, travel arrangements, and daily activities.The course integrates Chinese cultural context throughout its lessons, helping students understand both language and customs. From traditional festivals to modern business p...

She's the unlikable heroine from his past.Ben Nakamura never forgot spiky, beautiful Natalie Chen, who was the joy and plague of his last year at university. She may even have been the inspiration for the main character of his YA fantasy series. But the Nat who walks back into his life is less angry, less edgy-and just as vulnerable.Can she be part of his future?Nat returned to Vancouver to care for her dying mother, and now, after confronting the person she used to...

The realms are fracturing. The veil between truth and ruin is thinning, and I stand at the breaking point.The Lords of the Courts of Shadows and Aether both whisper promises of power, demanding my ascension. One would forge me into a queen of darkness, the other a ruler of ethereal dominion. But to rise, I must choose—and a wrong choice could shatter the world itself.My alphas have been torn from me, the forced distance igniting a dangerous heat that claws ...

It all began with a nightmare—vivid, intoxicating visions of realms too stunning to believe exist in our cruel world.I'm an omega, but I'm wrong. Tainted. A glitch in the natural order.My dreams drag me to a shadow kingdom of cruel beauty where sinful alpha monsters reign supreme—crowned heads of various courts, their very presence igniting my inner omega that's laid dormant impatiently. Their crowns gleam with unholy light, their scents ignite a hunger in ...

The nightmares are rising… shadows twist through memory and magic, and I stand at the edge of oblivion.The Lords of Shadow and Starlight once warred for my soul.Now they bleed for it.To survive the Court of Nightmares, I must face what Liarel couldn't—ancient betrayal, fractured love, and a prophecy designed to break us. I've tasted the poison of rejection and clawed my way back from the abyss, bloodied but unbroken.Each trial cuts deeper.