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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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