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Temple of Heaven

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September 9th 2009
Hello everybody. We had our second lesson today, we're getting slightly better at all of the sounds that sound exactly the same to me. In fact, when I repeat the sounds for three different letters in exactly the same way, the teacher seems happy with me, so maybe that's the secret, there aren't as many sounds as they think there are. After that we went to see the Temple of Heaven - awesome. ... read more

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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