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Chinese as the new lingua franca
September 24, 2007 at 12:16 PM
I am sitting at a Korean eating place while on a businessss trip to Barcelona... Korean? only at the top of the restaurant menu. All the posters are for Japanese bee...
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背词典 - memorizing the dictionary
September 24, 2007 at 09:05 AM
Went to a big Beijing bookstore today and bought some cheap Chinese books that I probably won't touch again (as always). For a short while I was looking at a boo...
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Advanced vocab still missing in the CPod dict...
September 23, 2007 at 03:46 AM
Today's lesson on tabloids was brimming with (from my perspective) tough expressions and new vocab - most of which I could not find in the CPod dict. And often a...
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Education is a Fire
September 22, 2007 at 02:09 PM
I just thought I'd share this quote by William Butler Yeats that sums up our philosophy at Praxis language pretty well: ''Education is not the filling of...
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Make your own Shanghai street sign
September 22, 2007 at 11:44 AM
http://exploreshanghai.com/blog/make-your-own-sh...
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The hard life of Chinesepod (fictitious) Characters
September 22, 2007 at 10:06 AM
Has anyone noticed that Chinesepod characters - at least those graced by a name and identity of sorts - lead a harsh life? Peter, Canadian businessman: presumably ki...
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German Pop musicians sing in Japanese - what about Chinese?
September 22, 2007 at 09:22 AM
Lieblingslied Records release a CD with German pop musicians singing in Japanese. There will also be a language learning CD included in the pack (the green PONS stic...
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Vocab reinforcement: 折腾
September 21, 2007 at 07:31 AM
An expression I hear in about every second conversation is 折腾 which I know from the Advanced lesson on Fengshui: http://chinesepod.com/learnchinese/%e9%a3%8e%e6%......
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