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Chinese Surname Shortage
June 12, 2007 at 03:23 PM
Chinese surname shortage sparks rethink .
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Sino or sina Origins
June 12, 2007 at 11:17 AM
I am sure this is in here some where but I don't have the time or the patience to go looking for it. I have heard many different theories of where this com...
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My favourite Chinese website - CnMDb
June 12, 2007 at 09:58 AM
I think www.cnmdb.com is now my favourite Chinese website. It seems quite a lot of the western actors have just the Chinese name though, so I've been submitting...
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Cpoddie Must Have! Small words repost request
June 12, 2007 at 09:25 AM
Bluebluesky and Franch please repost your "small words" list again. It was wonderful, but fell off the connect page too fast. I have been collecting...
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Connect section old posts
June 12, 2007 at 05:18 AM
Where do old posts go to die? A message such as this one, that isn't attached to a lesson, will fall off the end of the list into where? Which is OK, however som...
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Wang Lee Hom!
June 12, 2007 at 03:04 AM
Hey Everyone, I went to Taiwan in the summer of 2006 for a summer exchange program. It was absolutely amazing. I love it and I want to go back, which is one of the m...
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Policy of ChinesePod for disappeared Podcasts
June 11, 2007 at 11:09 PM
What's the policy of ChinesePod about about the Podcasts and the associated transcripts that are no more available on the ChinesePod website since V3 ? I re...
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What are proper gifts for Chinese?
June 11, 2007 at 06:29 PM
Everyone has had the experience of giving a gift. A proper gift can promote communication and express good wishes, and sometimes it may also bring about unexpected p...
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Chinese Spoken
June 11, 2007 at 06:03 PM
① Ganmɑ yɑ (干吗呀) In colloquial Chinese we often say “Ganma ya” to express “why”. When you don’t understand why somebody has done someth...
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Chinese Terms of Address for Relatives
June 11, 2007 at 05:27 PM
The Spring Festival is the occasion for every Chinese family to get together. Do you know how people of different generations in the Chinese family address each othe...
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