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Guest Post: How to Switch Your Brain into Chinese Mode when Speaking Mandarin?

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Learning French from a Native Spanish Speaker's Perspective

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Guest Post: My language studies of Danish and Norwegian Bokmål

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9 Multilingual News Websites For Reading Practice

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The internet has really had a big impact on our language learning. Nowadays, you can easily learn any language and find someone to study together. However, you also need to have a good strategy to maintain your learning success. A proverb says "Easy come, easy go". If you cannot maintain your language progress, you will stop learning eventually.

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The Beauty of Chinese Character

People who have studied Chinese must realize that Chinese character is not just a character, but it is also an art. Every stroke in the character forms a beautiful combination of a meaning. It is said that Chinese character evolves from time to time based on the actual object. Although I cannot say that it is 100% true, there are books about Chinese pictogram. For example, you can see below how "sun" and "moon" was written in the past and the evolution of it until nowadays. Characters 日 and 月, on far right, are the characters used today.

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