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	<title>Taiwanese Dream &#187; Chinese</title>
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	<description>Making This Island My Home</description>
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		<title>Bamboo Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the weeks pass and I learn new words in Chinese, I have begun to notice that the MRT stops on the subway are often named after physical landmarks in the countryside.  The stop by my house is named after bamboo.  The next stop on the MRT, going north, is named after red trees.  When I told my Chinese teacher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My First Chinese Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After taking Chinese lessons for 10 months here in Taiwan, I was finally able to sit down and write a short story about my day in Chinese.  To the average Chinese reader, the story is not much, but to anyone who knows what I went through to get here, it&#8217;s a great experience to read.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wake Up, Insects, Wake Up!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“众所周知，太阳东升西落。”
Everyone knows the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. It’s one of those universal truths I thought I could take for granted, so much that I never had to stop and think about it. Then, one day, I discovered something completely different, a new truth about the way the sun and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legends of the East and West</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some say she drowned in a river. Other say she walked off into the misty mountains at the young age of 28 and disappeared forever. Whatever the case, her father&#8217;s body had been lost at sea, never to be seen again. For Lin Muo-Niang (林默娘), life was full of tragedy.
Born in 960 AD, on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Little Dumplings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was getting hungry and needed to explore my Chinese in order to grab something to eat.  Diane was at work and I’d had a busy morning, so finding something edible for lunch was up to me.  I walked down the street and stopped at my favorite dumpling store, where I pointed to a box [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classroom Chatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kindergarten is a great place to learn Chinese.  I mean as a teacher, not as a student.  In Kindergarten, little children are learning to communicate with each other for the first time.  The simple meanings they struggle to convey are short and to the point.  For someone like myself, who’s got the ability to speak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding My Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[



Dan and Diane




I needed a Chinese name. Diane and I had gotten married and I needed to sign a document in Chinese to register our household with the government of Taiwan.
For the first character, we started with “Bi” (白), because my family name is “White.” Wanting a simple name, one that could be easily written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Name is Fifa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifa likes to play soccer.  So when it came time to pick an English name for him, his parents looked toward the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) for help.  Fifa is one of the most active boys in my class when we play games.  While the name is unusual, you have to admit that [...]]]></description>
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