Multimedia Chinese Course for Beginners

Grasp Chinese is a multimedia Mandarin Chinese learning website that offers ten free lessons for Chinese beginners, with an optional subscription to continue studying.

Each Chinese lesson offers listening practice, writing practice and a phrasebook with associated vocabulary. These lessons are delivered through video and audio content, and flow naturally from one step to the next with a clean, user-friendly interface.

The ten free Chinese lessons - appropriate as an introduction for total beginners - cover the following topics:

1. Saying Hello
2. Introduction to Tones
3. Ordering a Coffee
4. Airport - Arriving
5. Taxi - Going to Hotel
6. Hotel - Checking In
7. Numbers 1-10
8. Breakfast
9. Shopping
10. Introducing yourself

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Have Fun Learning English Fast

Busuu English offers English learners a dynamic combination of online lessons, language exchange and mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android.

Busuu offers many of their features for free :) This includes picture-based vocabulary training, writing exercises, reading comprehension exercises, video chat, interactive exams and a bustling community for social exchange in English.

The Busuu system allows you to keep a track record of your English studies and mark your progress as you complete each lesson. You can work through your lessons at any time, enabling you to fit your study schedule into your daily life however you choose.

Find Friends and Practice or Exchange

Finding friends is easy in the Busuu community! Quickly search and contact other English learners to practice with as well as exchange partners to share and trade with. Plus, there's a free video chat function for easy access to language exchanges right in the same interface you're using to learn.

Stay Motivated in Style

In order to keep you motivated, Busuu has created a beautiful interface which allows you to grow and visualize your own language garden as you make progress learning English. If you are interested in learning more than one language, you will have a tree for each language that sprouts and shoots to the sky as you progress through the lessons and levels. It's quite a thrill to see this grow and know it's a visual representation of your language skills!

Free English Mobile App for iOS and Android

Busuu offers free mobile apps for learning English on the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android. The free app takes you through the basics for getting around, and is especially useful while traveling.

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Outstanding Language Resource Localized in 20 Languages

Bab.la offers free dictionaries, vocabulary sets, flash cards, quizzes, games, conjugation tables, phrases, travel survival guides, a forum and, yes, even more.

The website is localized in Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto (!), French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish and Turkish. Wow!

What does "localized" mean?

"Localized" (localised in British English) means that Bab.la's interface is available in all these languages, so speakers can surf the site in their native tongue. This can be useful for intermediate and advanced learners who want the challenge of surfing in their target language.

Learning Resources for 20 Languages

All the above languages also have learning resources available!

Of special note on Bab.la are the free Survival Guides, downloadable PDFs for quick access to phrases and language essential for travel conversation, complaints and computers. Chatting, computing and complaining has never been so simple!

The phrasebooks available are also of special note, as they cover quite a lot of ground that is often not covered in traditional phrasebooks. These are separated into four main categories: Application, Academic, Business and Personal, and are available for all the languages above - quite a boon to anyone needing quick access to phrases used commonly in application processes and academic, business and personal settings.

To give a quick example of this, you can quickly find useful common phrases for email communication, invoicing, reference letters, announcements and invitations, reservations and more.

Dictionaries, Vocabulary Sets, Quizzes, Games and Conjugation Tables

The dictionary area of Bab.la offers quick and easy translation between all the languages above.

The vocabulary section offers vocab sets for job, school & university, travel, self-study, fun & hobbies and official exams.

The quizzes and games are fun for children and can even help keep teens and adults entertained while learning.

The conjugation tables are quite useful for the appropriate languages, which currently include Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish and Portuguese. Some of these are also offered in sets, such as Polish <> German or French <> Italian, for the polyglots out there who like learning another language via a foreign language they already know :)

Tools: Broswser Plugins, Webmaster Widgets, Mobile Apps

All in all, Bab.la offers an amazing amount of material for free! There's even more that hasn't been covered here which is included in their Tools section. This includes dictionary toolbars and plugins for common browsers, dictionary widgets for websites and mobile dictionary apps (the apps are not free).

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Turkish Language Facts, Key Phrases and Alphabet

BBC Languages Turkish offers the key ingredients to get started learning Turkish. Covering the basics, this free service from the BBC takes you through general facts, key phrases and the Turkish alphabet.

Additionally, this resource provides easy links to Turkish radio, an English-Turkish dictionary and BBC Turkish, the BBC's news service in the Turkish language.

If you're interested in learning the key phrases for traveling in Turkey, have a look at the Free Turkish Phrasebook and Turkish Essential Travel Phrases.

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Polish Language Facts, Key Phrases, Alphabet and Cartoon Mini-Soap

BBC Languages Polish offers the key ingredients to get started learning Polish. Covering the basics, this free service from the BBC takes you through general facts about Polish, key phrases, the Polish alphabet and offers a mini-soap opera cartoon for fun and additional practice.

Additionally, this resource provides easy links to Polish radio, an English-Polish dictionary and the archives of BBC Polish, a discontinued service containing past programs and reports.

If you're interested in learning the key phrases for traveling in Poland, have a look at the Free Polish Phrasebook and Polish Essential Travel Phrases.

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Learn Survival Ukrainian

Wikitravel users have collectively created a free Ukrainian phrasebook with the goal of making it possible for travelers to "get by" while traveling in areas where Ukrainian is spoken.

Wikitravel phrasebooks are available in many languages and each one varies in depth and detail. Most of the phrasebooks include a pronunciation guide, a general phrase list, information about dates and numbers, a color list, transportation-related phrases, vocabulary for shopping and phrases for eating and drinking. Some are even more in depth, and all are free!

About Ukrainian Language

From Wikitravel: Ukrainian is spoken by over 40 million people in Ukraine and other countries. Among Ukrainian citizens there are few very few who speak only Ukrainian, very few who speak only Russian, and virtually everyone speaks both.

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Have Fun Learning Spanish Fast

Busuu Spanish offers Spanish learners a dynamic combination of online lessons, language exchange and mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android.

Busuu offers many of their features for free :) This includes picture-based vocabulary training, writing exercises, reading comprehension exercises, video chat, interactive exams and a bustling community for social exchange in Spanish.

The Busuu system allows you to keep a track record of your Spanish studies and mark your progress as you complete each lesson. You can work through your lessons at any time, enabling you to fit your study schedule into your daily life however you choose.

Find Friends and Practice or Exchange

Finding friends is easy in the Busuu community! Quickly search and contact other Spanish learners to practice with as well as exchange partners to share and trade with. Plus, there's a free video chat function for easy access to language exchanges right in the same interface you're using to learn.

Stay Motivated in Style

In order to keep you motivated, Busuu has created a beautiful interface which allows you to grow and visualize your own language garden as you make progress learning Spanish. If you are interested in learning more than one language, you will have a tree for each language that sprouts and shoots to the sky as you progress through the lessons and levels. It's quite a thrill to see this grow and know it's a visual representation of your language skills!

Free Spanish Mobile App for iOS and Android

Busuu offers free mobile apps for learning Spanish on the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android. The free app takes you through the basics for getting around, and is especially useful while traveling.

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Audio Libros Gratis para 40 Lenguas

book2 es un increíble recurso para aprender las bases de muchas lenguas.

Este proyecto destaca por ofrecer alrededor de 1600 combinaciones de lenguas, tal como Japonés-Inglés, Chino-Árabe, etc., para utilizar como una exposición.

Este método implica aprender una serie de secuencias cortas de audio para adquirir comodidad en situaciones concretas comunes en la vida diaria (presentarse, conocer gente, ir por ahí, etc.)

Resulta interesante que este libro específico se volverá familiar para usted en sí mismo, por lo que volver al mismo material en nuevas lenguas podría acelerarse. Una vez que haya memorizado toda la secuencia de audio en una lengua, ¿por qué no pasar a otra?

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Aprenda Inglés con Babbel

Babbel combina aprendizaje multimedia sonoro y visual, la interactividad en red social, una metodología educativa basada en el sonido, aplicaciones móviles (para iPhone, iPod Touch e iPad – Babbel Móvil) y extras en el escritorio (Babbel Refresh) en una plataforma integrada todo en uno para aprender inglés.

Recientemente han expandido su plataforma añadiendo grandes cantidades de nuevas características a la interfaz de la Web, así como aplicaciones móviles y de escritorio para mejorar sus esfuerzos al aprender inglés online y las llevan al móvil.

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Learn Survival Swedish

Wikitravel users have collectively created a free Swedish phrasebook with the goal of making it possible for travelers to "get by" while traveling in areas where Swedish is spoken.

Wikitravel phrasebooks are available in many languages and each one varies in depth and detail. Most of the phrasebooks include a pronunciation guide, a general phrase list, information about dates and numbers, a color list, transportation-related phrases, vocabulary for shopping and phrases for eating and drinking. Some are even more in depth, and all are free!

Swedish is spoken in Sweden by 9.4 million people. It is also spoken in Finland (290,000), USA (70,000), Spain (40,000), United Kingdom (30,000) and Canada (20,000).

About Swedish Language

From Wikitravel: Swedish is a North Germanic language, closely related to Norwegian and Danish (and through them, related to Icelandic). Spoken by over 9 million people, Swedish is the national language of Sweden and the official language of the Åland Islands. It is also an official language of Finland (along with Finnish), though only the mother tongue for about 6 percent of Finns.

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Divirta-se aprendendo rapidamente inglês

O Busuu oferece aos alunos uma combinação dinâmica de lições online, a troca de idioma e aplicativos móveis para iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch e Android.

O Busuu oferece muitas das suas caraterísticas de graça :) Isso inclui vocabulário de treinamento baseado em imagem, exercícios de escrita, exercícios de compreensão de leitura, vídeo chat, exames interativos e uma comunidade movimentada para troca social em inglês.

O sistema Busuu permite manter um histórico de seus estudos do inglês e marcar seu progresso à medida que você completa cada lição. Você pode trabalhar através de suas aulas a qualquer momento, permitindo que você encaixe seu horário de estudo em sua vida diária no momento que você escolher.

Encontre amigos e pratique ou troque

Encontrar amigos é fácil na comunidade Busuu! Pesquise rapidamente e contate outros estudantes de inglês para a prática, bem como parceiros para trocar, para compartilhar e negociar. Além disso, há uma função de chat gratuito de vídeo para facilitar o acesso a intercâmbios de linguagem na mesma interface que você está usando para aprender.

Fique motivado em grande estilo

A fim de mantê-lo motivado, o Busuu criou uma interface bonita, que lhe permite crescer e visualizar seu próprio jardim de idioma enquanto você faz o progresso de aprendizagem. Se você estiver interessado em aprender mais de um idioma, você terá uma árvore para cada idioma, nas quais crescem brotos e rebentos para o céu enquanto você progride através das lições e níveis. É muito emocionante ver isso crescer e saber que é uma representação visual de suas habilidades lingüísticas!

Inglês gratuito para aplicativos para celular, para iOS e Android

O Busuu oferece gratuitamente aplicativos móveis para aprender inglês no iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch e Android. O aplicativo gratuito leva-o através dos fundamentos para se lançar e é especialmente útil durante as viagens.

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Amusez-vous en Apprenant Rapidement L’anglais

Busuu Anglais propose aux apprentis en anglais une combinaison dynamique de leçons en ligne, d’échange de langages et d’applications mobiles pour iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch et Android.

Busuu offre beaucoup de ces caractéristiques gratuitement :) Cela comprend un entraînement de vocabulaire basé sur les images, des exercices d’écriture, des exercices de compréhension écrite, des chats vidéo, des examens interactifs ainsi qu’une communauté animée pour échanger socialement en anglais.

Le système Busuu vous permet de garder une trace de vos études en anglais et de marquer votre progression après la fin de chaque leçon. Vous pouvez travailler sur vos leçons à tout moment, vous permettant d’être en accord avec votre agenda de la vie quotidienne, quoi que vous fassiez.

Trouvez des Amis et Pratiquez ou Echangez

Il est facile de trouver des amis dans la communauté Busuu ! Recherchez rapidement et contactez les autres apprentis en anglais pour pratiquer avec eux ainsi que des partenaires d’échange pour partager et commercialiser avec eux. De plus, il existe un chat vidéo gratuit pour un accès plus facile aux échanges de langages, directement dans la même interface que vous utilisez pour apprendre.

Restez motivé

Afin de vous garder motivé, Busuu a créé une belle interface qui vous permet d’améliorer et de visualiser votre propre jardin de langue en fonction des progrès que vous faites en apprenant l’anglais. Si vous êtes intéressé par l’apprentissage de plus d’une langue, vous aurez un arbre pour chaque langue que vous commencez et améliorez en fonction de votre progression dans les leçons et les niveaux. C’est un vrai bonheur de voir cela grandir et savoir que c’est une représentation visuelle de vos compétences en langues!

Application Mobile Anglais Gratuit pour iOS et Android

Busuu propose des applications mobiles gratuites pour apprendre l’anglais sur l’iPhone, l’iPad, l’iPod Touch et Android. L’application gratuite vous fournit les bases pour vous ballader, et cela est par ailleurs pratique lors d’un voyage.

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Have Fun Learning Polish Fast

Busuu Polish offers Polish learners a dynamic combination of online lessons, language exchange and mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android.

Busuu offers many of their features for free :) This includes picture-based vocabulary training, writing exercises, reading comprehension exercises, video chat, interactive exams and a bustling community for social exchange in Polish.

The Busuu system allows you to keep a track record of your Polish studies and mark your progress as you complete each lesson. You can work through your lessons at any time, enabling you to fit your study schedule into your daily life however you choose.

Find Friends and Practice or Exchange

Finding friends is easy in the Busuu community! Quickly search and contact other Polish learners to practice with as well as exchange partners to share and trade with. Plus, there's a free video chat function for easy access to language exchanges right in the same interface you're using to learn.

Stay Motivated in Style

In order to keep you motivated, Busuu has created a beautiful interface which allows you to grow and visualize your own language garden as you make progress learning Polish. If you are interested in learning more than one language, you will have a tree for each language that sprouts and shoots to the sky as you progress through the lessons and levels. It's quite a thrill to see this grow and know it's a visual representation of your language skills!

Free Polish Mobile App for iOS and Android

Busuu offers free mobile apps for learning Polish on the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android. The free app takes you through the basics for getting around, and is especially useful while traveling.

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Have Fun Learning Turkish Fast

Busuu Turkish offers Turkish learners a dynamic combination of online lessons, language exchange and mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android.

Busuu offers many of their features for free :) This includes picture-based vocabulary training, writing exercises, reading comprehension exercises, video chat, interactive exams and a bustling community for social exchange in Turkish.

The Busuu system allows you to keep a track record of your Turkish studies and mark your progress as you complete each lesson. You can work through your lessons at any time, enabling you to fit your study schedule into your daily life however you choose.

Find Friends and Practice or Exchange

Finding friends is easy in the Busuu community! Quickly search and contact other Turkish learners to practice with as well as exchange partners to share and trade with. Plus, there's a free video chat function for easy access to language exchanges right in the same interface you're using to learn.

Stay Motivated in Style

In order to keep you motivated, Busuu has created a beautiful interface which allows you to grow and visualize your own language garden as you make progress learning Turkish. If you are interested in learning more than one language, you will have a tree for each language that sprouts and shoots to the sky as you progress through the lessons and levels. It's quite a thrill to see this grow and know it's a visual representation of your language skills!

Free Turkish Mobile App for iOS and Android

Busuu offers free mobile apps for learning Turkish on the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android. The free app takes you through the basics for getting around, and is especially useful while traveling.

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Phrasebooks from Afrikaans to Zarma

For quite a while now, I've been steadily adding articles about available online free phrasebooks for languages from all around the world. This has culminated in quite a list!

Currently, the phrasebooks section of FreeLanguage.org has over 100 phrasebook articles covering over 75 languages.

The majority of these phrasebook articles are about resources found at Wikitravel and the BBC.

What is a phrasebook?

A phrasebook is generally a list of helpful words and phrases for a language. Generally, phrasebooks cover the most basic expressions as well as those useful for travel.

Generally, you look up a phrase in your native language (or a language you are familiar with) and find the rough equivalent in the target language, thereby giving you quick access to a wide variety of useful expressions (phrases) for many settings and interactions.

Why do I need a phrasebook?

Well, you don't! However, phrasebooks can be very helpful for people who know nothing about a language and simply want a reference book so they can get around in a given linguistic environment. This can mean anything from eating at restaurants, shopping, checking in and out of hotels, asking directions, staying socially and culturally polite, meeting and greeting people and much more.

Visit the Free Language Phrasebook section where you'll find links to free phrasebooks for dozens of languages!

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Have Fun Learning Russian Fast

Busuu Russian offers Russian learners a dynamic combination of online lessons, language exchange and mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android.

Busuu offers many of their features for free :) This includes picture-based vocabulary training, writing exercises, reading comprehension exercises, video chat, interactive exams and a bustling community for social exchange in Russian.

The Busuu system allows you to keep a track record of your Russian studies and mark your progress as you complete each lesson. You can work through your lessons at any time, enabling you to fit your study schedule into your daily life however you choose.

Find Friends and Practice or Exchange

Finding friends is easy in the Busuu community! Quickly search and contact other Russian learners to practice with as well as exchange partners to share and trade with. Plus, there's a free video chat function for easy access to language exchanges right in the same interface you're using to learn.

Stay Motivated in Style

In order to keep you motivated, Busuu has created a beautiful interface which allows you to grow and visualize your own language garden as you make progress learning Russian. If you are interested in learning more than one language, you will have a tree for each language that sprouts and shoots to the sky as you progress through the lessons and levels. It's quite a thrill to see this grow and know it's a visual representation of your language skills!

Free Russian Mobile App for iOS and Android

Busuu offers free mobile apps for learning Russian on the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android. The free app takes you through the basics for getting around, and is especially useful while traveling.

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Access the YouTube Spoken Latin Course, Audio Archive and Social Network for Free

Latium Redivivum is a Latin-learning website that brings together many different and unique resources for learners and teachers alike.

Among the free resources brought together at Latium Redivivum are a Latin podcast with several thousand hours of audio, Schola, a Latin social network, a spoken Latin YouTube course and a site dedicated entirely to illustrating everyday Latin words.

Latin learners can find instant material to work with for free using this extensive library material.

Teachers can use this material in their courses to engage students and offer creative tasks and assignments in and out of class.

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Learn Survival Slovenian

Wikitravel users have collectively created a free Slovenian phrasebook with the goal of making it possible for travelers to "get by" while traveling in areas where Slovenian is spoken.

Wikitravel phrasebooks are available in many languages and each one varies in depth and detail. Most of the phrasebooks include a pronunciation guide, a general phrase list, information about dates and numbers, a color list, transportation-related phrases, vocabulary for shopping and phrases for eating and drinking. Some are even more in depth, and all are free!

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Have Fun Learning Portuguese Fast

Busuu Portuguese offers Portuguese learners a dynamic combination of online lessons, language exchange and mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android.

Busuu offers many of their features for free :) This includes picture-based vocabulary training, writing exercises, reading comprehension exercises, video chat, interactive exams and a bustling community for social exchange in Portuguese.

The Busuu system allows you to keep a track record of your Portuguese studies and mark your progress as you complete each lesson. You can work through your lessons at any time, enabling you to fit your study schedule into your daily life however you choose.

Find Friends and Practice or Exchange

Finding friends is easy in the Busuu community! Quickly search and contact other Portuguese learners to practice with as well as exchange partners to share and trade with. Plus, there's a free video chat function for easy access to language exchanges right in the same interface you're using to learn.

Stay Motivated in Style

In order to keep you motivated, Busuu has created a beautiful interface which allows you to grow and visualize your own language garden as you make progress learning Portuguese. If you are interested in learning more than one language, you will have a tree for each language that sprouts and shoots to the sky as you progress through the lessons and levels. It's quite a thrill to see this grow and know it's a visual representation of your language skills!

Free Portuguese Mobile App for iOS and Android

Busuu offers free mobile apps for learning Portuguese on the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android. The free app takes you through the basics for getting around, and is especially useful while traveling.

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Learn Survival Welsh

Wikitravel users have collectively created a free Welsh phrasebook with the goal of making it possible for travelers to "get by" while traveling in areas where Welsh is spoken.

Wikitravel phrasebooks are available in many languages and each one varies in depth and detail. Most of the phrasebooks include a pronunciation guide, a general phrase list, information about dates and numbers, a color list, transportation-related phrases, vocabulary for shopping and phrases for eating and drinking. Some are even more in depth, and all are free!

About Welsh Language

From Wikitravel: Welsh (Welsh: Cymraeg) is a language spoken by around 21% of the population in Wales in addition to English (according to the 2001 Census) but probably more than 21% of the Welsh population can speak the Welsh Language now in 2010. It is also spoken by several thousand people in the Chubut province of Argentina, as well as by substantial numbers of people scattered around the world. All Welsh speakers old enough to attend school in Wales also speak English, while those in Argentina speak Spanish.

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A Hidden Gem for Language Lovers and Learners

This article presents a unique approach for intermediate to advanced (and beyond) learners of many languages to gain exposure to interesting material in their target language(s). It has to do with a very popular website that features short (usually less than ten minutes) presentations by some of the world's greatest and most famous minds (not always both ;) on their specific areas of expertise. It's called, simply, TED, and the presentations are called "TED Talks".

The TED website itself is not geared towards language learners or educators yet is useful for both. It is especially useful for English learners, as all the talks are in English. But it's also useful for anyone learning most of the world's most-spoken languages (as well as numerous lesser-spoken ones) who want to simultaneously watch inspiring, funny, courageous, fascinating, informative, persuasive, ingenious and often jaw-dropping presentations about technology, science, entertainment, design, business and global issues - all while gaining exposure to their target language. Here's how and why...

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How to Get the Lessons

Simply head over to Popup Chinese and sing up for a free account. You will then have access to 1000+ audio lessons for your MP3 player, smartphone, computer, etc.

Popup Chinese and Popup Cantonese

Hailing from Beijing, Popup Chinese offers refreshing, high-quality audio podcast lessons for Mandarin Chinese learners: free! Carefully planned and well-recorded, these lessons are professional, useful and fun. The Popup Chinese team is young, vibrant and eager to guide Chinese learners to true fluency in the language.

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