You may have woken up this morning wondering if yesterday was a dream. Were those folks at Popup Chinese actually crazy enough to promise a full week of Chinese lessons based around the movie Inception? Can they deliver the goods without stooping to baseless parody around day five? And will I survive with my sanity intact?

Fortunately for Chinese-speaking film-lovers worldwide, the answers to these questions are a decisive yes, no and maybe. If you're learning mandarin, enjoyed Inception as much as we did, and are hovering somewhere around the intermediate level, join us for a Chinese podcast that is more fun than driving a van off a bridge. Not only will we bring you vocabulary from the film, but Echo will also share some online Chinese gossip, revealing why Leonardo Dicaprio is bringing back collective memories of Jiang Zemin....