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		<title>Chinese dishes – basic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 08:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some restaurants in China offer English menu but if you want to try original Chinese cuisine these basic dish names might be helpful. 

米饭 [Mǐfàn] Rice
炒青菜 [Chǎo qīngcài] Stir-Fried Green Vegetables
肉 [Ròu] meat
If you see this Chinese character in menu most of the times it is pork meat.
宫保鸡丁 [Gōng bǎo jī dīng] Kung Pao Chicken
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson 6: yesterday, today, tomorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we will learn to say yesterday, today and tomorrow in Chinese. We will use the same approach for week, month and year. So after this lesson you will be able to say last week, this week and next week, also last month, this month and next month, and for year last year, this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson 5: Months</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Chinese months are created similarly as weekdays. Say number of the month and word which means month in Chinese: 月 [yuè] to say the month.
Months
January     一月 [yí yuè]
February   二月 [èr yuè]
March         三月 [sān yuè]
April           四月 [sì yuè]
May            五月 [wŭ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson 4: Weekdays</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say a weekday you have to say Chinese word week 星期 [xīng qī] and number of the day starting with Monday as day one:
星期一 [xīng qī yī] Monday
In this case &#8216;xing&#8217; means &#8217;star&#8217; and &#8216;qi&#8217; means &#8217;stage or phase&#8217; and therefore ties the meaning to astronomy and the daily cycle of rotation. The only exception [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson 3: Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lesson 3 will teach you to count in Chinese. You can also learn to write Chinese characters.]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson 2: Pinyin table</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our second lesson we will learn about Pinyin table.
Pinyin table is a listing of all Pinyin syllables used in Chinese. Table indicates possible combinations of initials and finals in Chinese, but does not indicate tones, which are equally important to the proper pronunciation of Chinese. Although some initial-final combinations have some syllables using each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson 1: Chinese tones</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to our first lesson of Chinese. In the first lesson we will learn about tones which are used in Chinese language. You will also learn your first Chinese words.

Chinese is a tonal language, which means that it uses pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning.
First tone - high-level tone
陰平/阴平 yīnpíng, literal meaning: yin-level:
a [...]]]></description>
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