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Posted on: World Cup Talk
On June 24 at 12:35 PM by RJ

yea, go cockraoaches,......wait, is that a real team? Read more

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Posted on: World Cup Talk
On June 24 at 11:52 AM by pretzellogic

The other soccer lessons: Newbie - World Cup Football Terms Elementary - World Cup and Diamonds Intermediate - Wor... Read more

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Posted on: Hot Pot
On June 24 at 10:49 AM by arsene_panov

Hi ChinesePod team! Please do come up with more episodes of The Menu Stealer. It is of great help to those who have been learning Mandarin for... Read more

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Posted on: Fun at the Beach
On June 24 at 10:23 AM by RJ

well, I do read the NY times. My bad. here is a sample question from the ESL/EFL test showing that "left" is the correct answer as opposed to "for... Read more

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Posted on: World Cup Talk
On June 24 at 9:10 AM by xiao_liang

I think it is that, to be honest. We kind of have real lives where we talk about football all the time :-p It takes an effort to repeat it all here! ;... Read more

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Posted on: World Cup Talk
On June 24 at 9:09 AM by xiao_liang

I'll be watching the UK/Germany game in a field with 30,000 other fans on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury festival :-) Now that's going to be fun (un... Read more

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On June 24 at 8:56 AM by connie

timlb, 谢谢你的鼓励，让我说英文更有信心了。 We use 开门红 about starting a business. eg, 今天早上我做了一笔大生意，算是个开门红。 红利 can not be used metaphorically. Read more

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Posted on: World Cup Talk
On June 24 at 8:37 AM by bodawei

I think it is just the Chinese habit of taking one of the characters and duplicating it. (I cannot get used to the Chinese habit of saying, in Englis... Read more

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On June 24 at 8:31 AM by dahouxiaohou

很好的一节课，谢谢老师们 生词都是使用的，对话也是很容易听的懂！ Read more

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Posted on: Fun at the Beach
On June 24 at 7:45 AM by jen_not_jenny

Regarding the forgot/left debate, Connie's explanation regarding 忘vs.留 precisely describes why, in many cases, I would choose to say that I forgot som... Read more