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798 Beijing

Art District in Beijing

Great Wall of China

Go Cougs!

Balcony Restaurant

Kungming, China

Market Place

Market Place

Qingdao Beach

Qingdao Beach

Qingdao

Qingdao, China

Rice Terraces

Rice Terraces

Pagoda

Pagoda

Street Musicians

Street Musicians

Cultural Minority Village

Cultural Minority Village

Lake Activities

Kunming, China

Go Cougs

Great Wall

Magnolia

Pagoda in Kunming

Bird's Nest

Beijing Olympic Village

Sharing Memories

These photographs were taken by yours truly in 2009-2010 when I was in China studying abroad. A couple of classmates and I backpacked around China for winter break. 

chinese animal sounds 

BONUS LISTENING COMPREHENSION EXERCISE:

 

Source

Tongue Twister

sìshí shì sìshí

四十是四十    

       

sìshí búshì shísì
四十不是十四

 

shísì búshì sìshí
十四不是四十

 

shísì shì shísì
十四是十四

Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den

Simplified Chinese: 施氏食狮史

Traditional Chinese: 施氏食獅史; pinyin: Shī Shì shí shī shǐ

 

This is a 92-character modern poem written in Classical Chinese by Yuan Ren Zhao (1892–1982), in which every syllable has the sound "shi" when read in modern Mandarin Chinese. 

 

source: http://www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/stonelion.php

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