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mainer

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2. I quite liked "Dreaming in Chinese"
Tue Dec 10, 2013, 01:15 PM
Dec 2013

about an American's experiences in China. (Author is the wife of jim Fallows) It's a slim, entertaining book about how learning Mandarin caused her to think of the world differently -- but he may already have it.

http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Chinese-Mandarin-Lessons-Language/dp/080277914X

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