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Learning French is much easier if you already know another Romance language such as Spanish or Italian. Even already knowing English helps a lot since so many words were borrowed from French and English. Is there anything similar for Chinese? Well, actually, many Asian countries that were once under the influence of China […]
Why learn Mandarin Chinese?
China’s economy is the seventh largest in the world but that’s only according to the Chinese who may be being modest for several reasons. City governments report smaller numbers to the national government to get more aid or subsidies and the Chinese currency itself is pegged to the US dollar which artificially […]
Have you ever wondered why the Japanese calendar system has seven days just like we have all over the West and why the meetings of Sunday and Monday seemingly match up (”sun” day and “moon” day) while the rest of the Japanese days are so different from what we use in English or in any […]