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	<title>Tower of Confusion &#187; Mandarin</title>
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		<title>Languages and Business Opportunities</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2010/05/31/languages-and-business-opportunities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mandarin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetThis morning I and my wife went to a Chinese café for breakfast. Somehow they offered free Chinese newspaper. I looked for the headline expecting some specular world event to unfold. To my disappointment, the headline read &#8220;華裔移民第二代 喜中西合璧婚宴&#8221; (2nd-generation Chinese prefer Chinese-Western fusion wedding banquets). It also showed the photo of a businessman who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speak Only When Ready &#8211; But When Will You be Ready?</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2010/03/21/speak-only-when-ready-but-when-will-you-be-ready/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetThere was an interesting exchange between Steve the Linguist and Benny the Irish Polyglot. I downloaded the podcast more than a week ago but only managed to get through it on a red-eye flight back from Seattle yesterday. In brief, Steve thinks that we should first immerse ourselves into a lot of input activities and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn Mandarin from Cantonese and Vice Versa</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/09/23/learn-mandarin-from-cantonese-and-vice-versa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/09/23/learn-mandarin-from-cantonese-and-vice-versa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cantonese]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetFinally, I have persuaded my wife to go to Mandarin class. She had her first class last Thursday. OK, this was not her first attempt, but at least I regard this as a new beginning. There is always hope. Coming back from the class that night, my wife started firing all kinds of pronunication questions [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Quadriplegic Mayor</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/03/03/the-quadriplegic-mayor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/03/03/the-quadriplegic-mayor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[French]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mandarin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Punjabi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TweetVancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan caught the attention of the international media back in 2006, when he accepted the flag at the closing ceremonies of the Turin Winter Olympics. He is Canada&#8217;s first disabled mayor and also the first quadriplegic mayor of a North American city. The mayor was paralysed after a tragic skiing accident when [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>An Innovative Way to Practice Conversations</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/01/10/an-innovative-way-to-practice-conversations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/01/10/an-innovative-way-to-practice-conversations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mandarin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetToday, I have accidentally discovered an innovative way to practice conversations. This approach has the following advantages: It is free It is purposeful (you don&#8217;t carry out a conversation just for the sake of carrying out a conversation) There is potentially unlimited number of topics to talk about You can converse with different partners all [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Languages Spoken in Toronto</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/12/10/languages-spoken-in-toronto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetAfter more than a year of waiting, the data finally came out last week. Statistics Canada released the language-related statistics of the 2006 census. Here are the top 20 languages &#8220;spoken most often at home&#8221; in Toronto, my home town, and their corresponding head-counts and percentages: English &#8211; 2746480 (55.31%) Italian &#8211; 185760 (3.74%) Chinese, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Xie Xie, Mr Prime Minister</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/26/xie-xie-mr-prime-minister/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/26/xie-xie-mr-prime-minister/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetThe Australians voted for a new prime minister this past Saturday. Kevin Rudd will become the 26th Prime Minister of Australia in about 2-weeks time. I don&#8217;t know much about the Australian politics, but one thing Mr. Rudd has caught my attention (and probably of many others too) is his fluency in Mandarin. Of course, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mandarin Tongue-Twister</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/09/21/mandarin-tongue-twister/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/09/21/mandarin-tongue-twister/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetLast Friday, I went out for lunch with a few Mandarin-speaking colleagues. We went to an authentic Northern-Chinese Cuisine. We knew it was authentic because it was certified by someone among us who actually came from Harbin, China. At some point during the lunch, someone brought up a well-known Mandarin tongue-twister. Being the only non-native [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Negative Comment</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/05/04/a-negative-comment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/05/04/a-negative-comment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 13:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetI was walking down the Las Vegas Boulevard last week with 2 colleagues, both were native Mandarin speakers. We have known each other for years, well before the time I picked up Mandarin. So we usually communicate in English. Imagine how inconvenient they were not being able to speak their native languages because of my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Parroting</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/04/20/parroting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/04/20/parroting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[French]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetSome people call it ‘chorusing’ or ‘echoing’. I don’t know if there is a technical name for it. I prefer to call it ‘parroting’. I am referring to the type of exercises many people use to improve their speaking skills. You would listen to a piece of conversation or monologue, usually at normal pace, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laughter in the Class</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/04/13/laughter-in-the-class/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/04/13/laughter-in-the-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetIn any typical language class of reasonable size, there is always someone, or perhaps a few people, who turn our to be natural comedians or clowns. Either involuntarily or acting on purpose, they bring laughter to the class. About a year or two ago, I went to a Mandarin Pinyin class. Due to the limitation [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Building My Pinyin List</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/04/10/building-my-pinyin-list/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/04/10/building-my-pinyin-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[French]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetA few words about my language learner progress in the last month. I have added 450 words to my French vocabulary list, 150 words more than my original target. In order not to overload myself, I will keep the same target of 300 words for the month of April. I have been concentrating on my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Speaking Like a Pop Star</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/02/21/speaking-like-a-pop-star/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/02/21/speaking-like-a-pop-star/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetI have been talking to a lot of Mandarin speakers on Skype in the past few weeks. Many of them have no problem identifying my ‘Hong Kong Mandarin’ accent (港腔) right away. One Mandarin speaker kindly pointed out that I tend to mix up the first and forth tones. I realize that it is a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fun With Global Translator</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/02/07/fun-with-global-translator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/02/07/fun-with-global-translator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cantonese]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetHere is a follow-up on my recent post &#8220;Fish Jokes&#8220;. Although I discourage my fellow-bloggers to provide machine-translation links to their pages, from a reader&#8217;s point of view, I do find the existence of these links very meaningful. Indeed, they are extremely entertaining! This site has just installed a WordPress plugin called the Global Translator, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hitting the Green Button</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/01/22/hitting-the-green-button/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/01/22/hitting-the-green-button/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetI have been kind of late jumping onto the Skype wagon. A lot of language learners have already been using it. For me, it was always the first call that seemed so difficult to make. I installed Skype a couple of months ago when version 2.5 first came out. I thought to myself, “One day [...]]]></description>
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