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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[There 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 then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Skypecast</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/09/04/no-more-skypecast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, another free on-line service was gone, not only the &#8220;free&#8221; part, but also the service itself.
Skypecast was launched in 2006 to host public conference calls up to 100 people at a time. It was since being established as a meeting place for many to get to know others and talk about anything. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shadowing Alone</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/04/14/shadowing-alone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across a language forum post. A person taught some Japanese students English by playing recordings of native speakers and asking the students to repeat them again and again. The teacher did not give more details, so I assume this was the only method he used. He posted a recording of one of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</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>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, 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 the time
The other party [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</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[The 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, the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>For the Sake of Conversation</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/20/for-the-sake-of-conversation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/20/for-the-sake-of-conversation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith left me a comment on my previous post, asking why I would join so many language-exchange networks. In fact, I am not quite sure if I know the answer. May be they are free, or perhaps I keep joining new ones simply because none of them has met my expectations.
When I look back at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Language Web 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/11/language-web-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Networks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have joined so many language exchange networks in the past year that I have already lost count of them. Whenever people contact me for language exchange, I would ask them from which language exchange website they found out about me. Quite often, they simply cannot recall it, probably because they themselves have also joined [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Scarier Than Halloween</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/03/scarier-than-halloween/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/11/03/scarier-than-halloween/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just delivered a Toastmasters speech on the past Wednesday, right on the Halloween. No, this was not the scary part. It was my first speech in 11 months. This was not that scary either. The real scary moment was when I received the recording afterwards, and I watched myself delivering my speech.
Many people, including [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</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>
				<category><![CDATA[Mandarin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last 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 speaker [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rebuking the Tarzan Approach</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/09/14/rebuking-the-tarzan-approach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/09/14/rebuking-the-tarzan-approach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vocabulary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most language learners out there should have heard about the How-to-learn-any-language forums already. You can find many experienced language learners making valuable contributions and advises there. Unfortunately, the forums are also overwhelmed with ridiculously amateur postings which just make me feel wasting my time even reading the subject lines. Frequently, you will see topics like:
1) [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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