Catch Word #293 – Chinamaxxing
Culips Everyday English Podcast
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4.8 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Have you started seeing videos that celebrate Chinese culture all over your feed, like someone swapping coffee for green tea? Andrew and Indiana noticed this trend too, and in this episode they teach three pieces of China-related slang and ask why it is all happening now. Their answer touches on the Djo song that went viral on TikTok, the move from TikTok to RedNote, soft power, and Canada’s anti-tariff billboards in the US.
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- End of Beginning by Djo:
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🔑 Key expressions
Keep an ear out for these phrases during the episode:
- Chinamaxxing
- A baddie
- You met me at a very Chinese time in my life
- To age out (of something)
- A false alarm
- Soft power
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Catchword, which is our vocabulary series for intermediate and above English learners that teaches you idioms, slang, phrasal verbs, and more. |
| 0:12.7 | And our goal here at Catchword is to help your speaking sound more natural and to allow you to understand the English that you hear around you when you're speaking with native speakers or you're watching a TV series or something like this. |
| 0:27.4 | My name's Andrew, of course, and I'm going to be joined here by my co-host, Indiana, in just a second. |
| 0:33.8 | And today we are going to introduce and teach you about some new slang and some internet memes that are related to the country of China. |
| 0:46.1 | And actually, this is going to be a little bit of a different style of episode because usually in catchword here, what we do is we introduce some new vocabulary to you |
| 0:56.2 | and then we give you some usage examples and teach you how to use it in your English speaking. |
| 1:01.9 | However, today, because we're talking about internet memes, I think it's more likely that you'll |
| 1:09.2 | see these expressions used on social media, but maybe you won't |
| 1:13.9 | actually use them in your English speaking. |
| 1:17.0 | So we're going to kind of combine a catchword episode with a chatterbox episode today. |
| 1:22.6 | We're going to teach you the vocabulary, teach you the memes, but then we'll have more of a |
| 1:27.1 | discussion around them. |
| 1:29.0 | And especially, I think our discussion will focus on the emergence of China as this |
| 1:36.9 | interesting country that sort of appeared lately in the West. China suddenly has become very |
| 1:43.9 | popular and the spotlight is on China right now. |
| 1:46.9 | And so we're going to talk about this new trend, this new phenomenon. |
| 1:50.8 | Of course, for this episode, just like all of our episodes, there is a helpful study guide |
| 1:56.0 | and an interactive transcript and a quiz, and you can get that awesome study resource if you are a |
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| 2:19.2 | right now. There is our member only series, the fluency files, plus so much more. You can see the |
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