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		<description><![CDATA[Come on Technorati &#8211; pick up my blog!
I think it&#8217;s personal&#8230;
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		<title>Tune In</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 23:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Chinese people love karaoke.  Today my friend got off work early so we went to do Chinese karaoke.  I loved it!  Another thing we should have here!  And I have to tell you &#8211; I’ve always been more a rock chic, despising all pop fans. …But Chinese pop songs are pretty good!
 
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They say the best place to learn a language is to be surrounded by it. Well I’ve been here a month now. I’m not so sure&#8230;
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		<title>English in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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The weekend starts here.  When I have spare time I like to surround myself in the language I can actually understand!!
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One of my English language saviours was the English-language TV station in China, called CCTV9.  (“Broadcast 24 hours a day, throughout China and across the world”!)  I loved the stuff they put on there.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinafirsthand.wordpress.com&blog=329794&post=154&subd=chinafirsthand&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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Tony Blair may believe in it, but it has its limitations.
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		<title>Language Learning</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a native English speaker. We’re a lazy bunch. Today I tutored my first English language student. I figure the average Chinese learns at least 6 languages.
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		<title>Language Differences</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where I am living I need to learn at least a little language. Most languages that English–speakers learn are pretty similar to English. Chinese isn’t.
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		<title>So Why China?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a fantastic country! This is a place steeped in unique relevance for both world history and world future, and it is a culture I believe to be most unlike ours than anywhere on earth. The Chinese people I admire more than any I have met. I hope we can learn from them.
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		<title>Communication Isolation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Native English speakers get quite complacent. I am one. I don’t think we appreciate the feeling of having no shared language to communicate. All my first impressions of China I experienced without speaking.
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		<title>Oi! Ha ha ha?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese is tuneful and I enjoy hearing its sound surround me. But I can’t always cope! It’s quite funny – your brain automatically hears English words – but I only notice when I overhear something incredibly shocking! Wow the inappropriate things spoken by seemingly innocent ladies, and the foul language from the mouths of children! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinafirsthand.wordpress.com&blog=329794&post=74&subd=chinafirsthand&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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