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Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language
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Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language

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May 26, 2012
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When I was a Chinese language student, I sat in an old classroom where the "ping....ting" noises from the rickety radiator made listening class vexing because I couldn’t tell the machine's emissions from the teacher’s. It is an admittedly extreme example of the obstacles that – equally truly -- most Westerners face with Chinese. Among them is Deborah Fa…

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