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    <title><![CDATA[Comments on: Equestrian]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/equestrian/discussion]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Long before Catherine the Great made equestrian famous, people used to jump things on horseback.  But not in China.  Considering their stature and overuse of the word ma, if any nation should dominate a sport, it's the Chinese in equestrian. Sadly this isn't the case, due to an ancient declaration of karaoke as the national sport.  In this podcast, learn about this Olympic sport, in Mandarin.
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    <pubDate>2008-02-20 18:00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: sfrrr]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/equestrian/discussion#comment-66305]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Great blurb!]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Great blurb!]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: TaiPan]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/equestrian/discussion#comment-66308]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Please Nomimate this for best intro... LOL]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Please Nomimate this for best intro... LOL]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: changye]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/equestrian/discussion#comment-66309]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Look up your dictionary！
You can find a lot of interesting
words that contain the character “马”.

马上 (ma3 shang) soon
马虎 (ma3 hu) careless
马戏团 (ma3 xi4 tuan2) circus
马拉松 （ma3 la1 song1）marathon

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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Look up your dictionary！
You can find a lot of interesting
words that contain the character “马”.

马上 (ma3 shang) soon
马虎 (ma3 hu) careless
马戏团 (ma3 xi4 tuan2) circus
马拉松 （ma3 la1 song1）marathon

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        <title><![CDATA[By: yase]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/equestrian/discussion#comment-66314]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Swiss equestrian team have already pulled their horses from the event unfortunately.The HK air isthought to be a bit rich in flavour for their polluion free bred animals !.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Swiss equestrian team have already pulled their horses from the event unfortunately.The HK air isthought to be a bit rich in flavour for their polluion free bred animals !.]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: cassielin]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/equestrian/discussion#comment-66315]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hope there will be more lessons about the Olympic games since 2008 is the year of Olympic in China.
2008奥运年！加油！]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hope there will be more lessons about the Olympic games since 2008 is the year of Olympic in China.
2008奥运年！加油！]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: sparechange]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/equestrian/discussion#comment-66320]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[casie:
There are, in fact, several Olympics lessons. I think they are all tagged as such; you can probably find them all if you do a search for "Olympics" here on the site.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[casie:
There are, in fact, several Olympics lessons. I think they are all tagged as such; you can probably find them all if you do a search for "Olympics" here on the site.]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: cassielin]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/equestrian/discussion#comment-66329]]></link>
        <author><![CDATA[cassielin]]></author>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sparechange,
Thank you. I will go and check.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Sparechange,
Thank you. I will go and check.]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: jhmulk]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/equestrian/discussion#comment-66360]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Classic tone exercise (as I learned it):

妈妈骑马，马慢，妈妈骂马。
ma1ma5 qi2ma3, ma3 man4, ma1ma5 ma4 ma3.
Mother rides [a] horse, horse [is] slow, mother scolds [the] horse.

@changye,
Don't forget 马马虎虎！(I never tire of using this one... just as my students never tire of using the English 'just so-so'.)]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Classic tone exercise (as I learned it):

妈妈骑马，马慢，妈妈骂马。
ma1ma5 qi2ma3, ma3 man4, ma1ma5 ma4 ma3.
Mother rides [a] horse, horse [is] slow, mother scolds [the] horse.

@changye,
Don't forget 马马虎虎！(I never tire of using this one... just as my students never tire of using the English 'just so-so'.)]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: bababoo]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/equestrian/discussion#comment-66383]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[马马虎虎 isn't popular in china , the fashion expression is :"小 case 啦" ]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[马马虎虎 isn't popular in china , the fashion expression is :"小 case 啦" ]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: bazza]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/equestrian/discussion#comment-66386]]></link>
        <author><![CDATA[bazza]]></author>
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        <description><![CDATA[This seemed like an upper-elementary, the breakdown was more like a intermediate than a usual elementary.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[This seemed like an upper-elementary, the breakdown was more like a intermediate than a usual elementary.]]></content:encoded>
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