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Fri May 23 – The Moosen In The Woodsen

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May 29th 2014
With 18 hours of Mandarin instruction done its time they gave us a quiz. It wasn’t bad at all, but I am retaining little under this compressed schedule. Four hours of class every morning was mentally exhausting when we first started after a week it’s become manageable but still tough to look forward to. Pronunciation is definitely still an issue for me, and given my English pronunciation isn†... read more

Asia » China » Guangxi » Guilin

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more