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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:
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.
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