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		<title>How to learn Chinese guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Free Chinese language study guide available for download in pdf format. (please register first in Member&#8217;s area in order to download the Study Guide.)  This useful guide covers topics such as learning strategies, learning styles, maintaining motivation, overcoming barriers, memorizing vocabulary, and other issues in the study of Mandarin. Now freely available online with hard copies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas in Beijing – a 外国人 （wàiguórén – foreigner’s） perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had not lived here long by the time Christmas came round last year, but I don’t remember there being very much in the way of Christmas things about, a few small decorations, but not much else. So this year, we were not expecting too many things to be happening to remind us about Christmas, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1on1mandarin.com/blog/christmas-beijing-foreigners-perspective/</link>
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		<title>Inputting Chinese characters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are learning Chinese then chances are that before too long you will want to write in Chinese using the computer. Assuming you are looking for a tool that allows you to write in Chinese as easily as it to write in roman script, then what you are looking for is a Chinese IME [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning by language bloopers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Today I was learning some useful cultural differences between China and the west. &#160; We were discussing that in China it is not the done thing to lick your fingers (and I understand that you don’t usually eat with your fingers either – so beware if you are planning a buffet for your Chinese [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1on1mandarin.com/blog/learning-by-language-bloopers/</link>
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		<title>Skritter review &#8211; a great way of learning how to write Chinese characters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Learning how to write Chinese characters is hard, and we can use all the help we can get. Skritter (http://www.skritter.cn) is a website that uses some clever web coding to create a novel way of helping you learn characters. The strongest feature of Skritter in my opinion is its tool for Chinese character writing with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1on1mandarin.com/blog/skritter-review-learning-write-chinese-characters/</link>
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		<title>How to learn Chinese characters (p-1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a westerner then learning Chinese characters is going to be hard and require months and years of study. But there are many things you can do to make the task slightly easier. One resource that I have been recently using is a book called “Rembering Simplified Hanzi 1” by Heisig and Richardson. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1on1mandarin.com/blog/how-to-learn-chinese-characters-p1/</link>
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		<title>Chinese Character of the week &#8211; 糟糕：‘Oh no!How terrible’!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My favourite Chinese character of this week: Zāo gāo 糟糕 ‘Oh no!’ ‘How terrible!&#8217; Have I had a bad week? Well, no, not really, but I did have a ‘糟糕’ moment related to trying (and I use that word deliberately!) to bake a cake in a toaster oven. Although it seems like a pretty complicated (or messy!) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1on1mandarin.com/blog/chinese-character-the-week-how-terrible/</link>
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		<title>Chinese character of the week:打针 -to have an injection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My favourite Chinese character of this week: 打针: To have an injection Dǎ zhēn 打 针 An odd Chinese character to have, you may think. But this is my Chinese character of the week for a number of reasons. Firstly, I’ve finally managed to learn it (for some reason, it has never stuck before, despite covering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1on1mandarin.com/blog/chinese-character-week-da-zhen/</link>
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		<title>My impression of cars in China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have never been to China, or haven’t been here for a few years for those who have then the image you have of china might be a little outdated. Previously it has been a common perception of china in the west that china is a country of bicycles. But if you come to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1on1mandarin.com/blog/impression-of-cars-in-china/</link>
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		<title>Chinese Character of the week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[饿 è To be hungry My favourite character this week has to be the character for ‘to be hungry’. On first look, for such a simple pinyin spelling (è) the character is somewhat complicated, however, I found a good way to remember it is that when I am hungry, I want to eat. Breaking the character [...]]]></description>
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