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Posted on: Chinatown Diary
On January 12 at 5:05 AM by kaixin_in_tampa

I think maybe the first Chinatown was very small and consisted of only one street. Read more

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On January 12 at 4:58 AM by JasonSch

Interesting story. 亲 is in fact a 多音字 with another reading of qìng, (meaning the same thing), but I'd never heard it and I'm not sure as to when it's... Read more

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On January 12 at 4:54 AM by Pirmin

没记得我十二岁时我父母还会偷偷地看我写的东西。 Read more

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Posted on: Chinatown Diary
On January 12 at 4:33 AM by JasonSch

Yeah. After the fact, we realized people may want to save it to their flashcards and we threw it in the supplementary vocab. Some people still may not... Read more

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Posted on: Chinatown Diary
On January 12 at 4:31 AM by catherinem

This has traditionally been true, though these days you can find a lot of immigrants from the Mainland in many Chinatowns. Most famously, perhaps, is... Read more

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Posted on: Chinatown Diary
On January 12 at 4:30 AM by JasonSch

I always make sure to check out different Chinatowns in the U.S. when I can. I've spent the most time in Chicago's Chinatown, but I recently was in th... Read more

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Posted on: Chinatown Diary
On January 12 at 4:27 AM by mivida88

I also have a question about 唐人街/tang2 ren2 jie1  : The last character means "street". Can there be a 唐人街 with multiple streets ? Read more

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Posted on: Chinatown Diary
On January 12 at 4:24 AM by mivida88

I was actually really surprised to see that there is an alternate translation for San Francisco. Is the alternate translation only used in certain sit... Read more

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On January 12 at 4:24 AM by catherinem

We implemented this change today. Check out our blog post for more details: Printable Expansion Sentences . Glad you find them useful! Read more

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Posted on: Chinatown Diary
On January 12 at 4:22 AM by mivida88

haha, just to give the Chinesepod crew a heads-up, the other translation for San Francisco is in the vocab section ;) Read more