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    <title><![CDATA[Comments on: Early January News]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/early-january-news/discussion]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! Don't get lost in the Chinese desert like our fool-hardy friends in their upper intermediate lesson this week. The New Year is also great cause for new developments in your romantic lives so tune in for our lesson 'Will You Marry Me?' and learn how to...we think you catch the drift. On more official matters, we'd like to introduce to the newest addition to our team, a Aussie bloke named Matt. 
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    <pubDate>2009-01-03 18:00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: andrew_c]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/early-january-news/discussion#comment-105397]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>That's great news,&nbsp; welcome Matt!</p>]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That's great news,&nbsp; welcome Matt!</p>]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: luobinzhenmei]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/early-january-news/discussion#comment-105403]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome, Matt.&nbsp; Can we have a lesson on (really simple) tongue twisters?&nbsp; Maybe it would help us learn the jiang/zhang zhu/ju ming/min sounds that we auditorially handicapped 老外 Lao Wai, have trouble with.</p>]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome, Matt.&nbsp; Can we have a lesson on (really simple) tongue twisters?&nbsp; Maybe it would help us learn the jiang/zhang zhu/ju ming/min sounds that we auditorially handicapped 老外 Lao Wai, have trouble with.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: matt_c]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/early-january-news/discussion#comment-105438]]></link>
        <author><![CDATA[matt_c]]></author>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi everyone, thanks for your kind welcomes :-D I'm so excited to be managing ChinesePod (it's been a month now), this job has got soul!</p>
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<p>@luobinzhenmei I think a couple of lessons or shows with tongue twisters would be very cool.</p>]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi everyone, thanks for your kind welcomes :-D I'm so excited to be managing ChinesePod (it's been a month now), this job has got soul!</p>
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<p>@luobinzhenmei I think a couple of lessons or shows with tongue twisters would be very cool.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: John]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/early-january-news/discussion#comment-105439]]></link>
        <author><![CDATA[John]]></author>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>I gotta say, it's great having Matt on the team.</p>]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I gotta say, it's great having Matt on the team.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: changye]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/early-january-news/discussion#comment-105441]]></link>
        <author><![CDATA[changye]]></author>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi matt_c,</p>
<p>听到这个好消息我很高兴，高兴得差点尿尿(niao4 sui1)了， 哈哈！我们都欢迎你！</p>]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi matt_c,</p>
<p>听到这个好消息我很高兴，高兴得差点尿尿(niao4 sui1)了， 哈哈！我们都欢迎你！</p>]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: jennyzhu]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/early-january-news/discussion#comment-105444]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Matt loves treating people to good food and drinks. He brings his home made bread, and occasionally Cooper's beer from Australia.</p>]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matt loves treating people to good food and drinks. He brings his home made bread, and occasionally Cooper's beer from Australia.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: matt_c]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/early-january-news/discussion#comment-105450]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>@changye 哈哈 看到你那么客气的留言我也尿尿（sēi）咯！！！</p>
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<p>@Jenny</p>
<p>Yes it is amazing how well a little bribery works. Haha. Jokes. Seriously, it's so much more fulfilling to enjoy good eats and drinks with a couple of nice people than by oneself - spread the love I say!</p>]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@changye 哈哈 看到你那么客气的留言我也尿尿（sēi）咯！！！</p>
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<p>@Jenny</p>
<p>Yes it is amazing how well a little bribery works. Haha. Jokes. Seriously, it's so much more fulfilling to enjoy good eats and drinks with a couple of nice people than by oneself - spread the love I say!</p>]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: cassielin]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/early-january-news/discussion#comment-105453]]></link>
        <author><![CDATA[cassielin]]></author>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi阿麦，很高兴听到你加入chinesepod team的好消息！</p>
<p>嘿嘿，你是John and Jenny的老板耶！哈哈boss!</p>
<p>When I watched the 7th 汉语桥competition in last year's summer, I never knew that one of the contestants will become chinesepod's manager one day! It is really cool!! 世界说大就大，说小就小，实在是太奇妙了！:-)</p>]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi阿麦，很高兴听到你加入chinesepod team的好消息！</p>
<p>嘿嘿，你是John and Jenny的老板耶！哈哈boss!</p>
<p>When I watched the 7th 汉语桥competition in last year's summer, I never knew that one of the contestants will become chinesepod's manager one day! It is really cool!! 世界说大就大，说小就小，实在是太奇妙了！:-)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: light487]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/early-january-news/discussion#comment-105456]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Maybe Matt will bring some of Jenny's favourite Aussie wine one day.. :p haha..</p>
<p>Glad to hear an Aussie has joined ChinesePOD and will represent yet another angle of diversity to the team.</p>
<p>Speaking of tongue twisters, a friend of mine who hangs out on EnglishPOD sent me this funny YouTube video entitled 黑化肥揮發會發灰:</p>
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<p>For more tongue twister videos at YouTube try the search term 中国绕口令 or just 绕口令</p>]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe Matt will bring some of Jenny's favourite Aussie wine one day.. :p haha..</p>
<p>Glad to hear an Aussie has joined ChinesePOD and will represent yet another angle of diversity to the team.</p>
<p>Speaking of tongue twisters, a friend of mine who hangs out on EnglishPOD sent me this funny YouTube video entitled 黑化肥揮發會發灰:</p>
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<p>For more tongue twister videos at YouTube try the search term 中国绕口令 or just 绕口令</p>]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: matt_c]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/early-january-news/discussion#comment-105468]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>@light487&nbsp; hehe, everytime my parents come to China I get them to bring a few bottles of wine - gotta love Aussie wine. :)</p>
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<p>@Cassielin&nbsp; Thanks, the competition was heaps of fun (despite the cheesiness of the whole affair - or maybe because of it), all my friends from the competition are quite envious of my new position - and happy that they have a place to stay in Shanghai :D</p>]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@light487&nbsp; hehe, everytime my parents come to China I get them to bring a few bottles of wine - gotta love Aussie wine. :)</p>
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<p>@Cassielin&nbsp; Thanks, the competition was heaps of fun (despite the cheesiness of the whole affair - or maybe because of it), all my friends from the competition are quite envious of my new position - and happy that they have a place to stay in Shanghai :D</p>]]></content:encoded>
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