Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Forum: Speaking and Listening 8th April 2004, 11:58 PM

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Chinese roots in other languages

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Posted By geek_frappa

yes. the migration of Chinese all over the world...

yes. the migration of Chinese all over the world has in some ways helped preserve parts of the
ancient language, so it is not a surprise that the southern Chinese who migrated away from the
mainland...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 8th April 2004, 07:28 AM

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Chinese roots in other languages

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Posted By geek_frappa

where can i find old recordings of Chinese...

where can i find old recordings of Chinese speakers?
where can i find the OLDEST of these recordings???

:D

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Forum: Speaking and Listening 15th May 2007, 07:09 PM

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Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

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Re: Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

Looking at CPod's changes the last few month I feel like those guys are in love with computer
technology. Main focus now seem to be gadgets, rather then useful functions. And still nothing is
really...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 22nd February 2007, 05:02 PM

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Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

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Re: Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

I don't think just a wife will bring automatically a difference. Simple because YOU YOURSELF have
to make the difference.

I still listen sometimes to CPod, know I make the lessons more effective by...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 15th January 2007, 05:22 PM

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Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

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Re: Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

thph2006
Fair point. I think CLO is well suited too.

It's easy to lose focus and get into all sort of technical discussions about pro and anti, likes
and dislikes, rather then just use the material...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 14th January 2007, 08:57 PM

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Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

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Re: Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

I listened to a lesson of www.chineselearnonline.com . Have to say, I do miss Ken and Jenny. CLO
sounds (again) dead boring.

I think quite a great part of the success of Cpod is that it's actually...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 22nd December 2006, 11:47 AM

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Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

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Re: Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

Yes and no. You still have to do the work. The same way running shoes do not make you a runner.

ChinesePod is great. It's funny and fun to listen to. However, you will not get fluent. Fluency
will...

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

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Forum: Speaking and Listening 3rd February 2007, 11:21 PM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

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Posted By HashiriKata

Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Are you sure your wife is Chinese? :mrgreen:

Forum: Speaking and Listening 2nd February 2007, 07:35 PM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

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Posted By HashiriKata

Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

There are some posts by the man himself in this thread. In one, you can find the link to one of
his video podcasts in which you'll hear a brief self-introduction. Of course, you can find out
more...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 2nd February 2007, 06:50 PM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

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Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Steve, I may have missed it but I think in the interview, you mentioned plenty of listening and
reading as the key to fluency, but you didn't mention the self-practising part by the learner.
What I...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 2nd February 2007, 06:20 AM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

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Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

On the whole, I like Steve's attitude towards foreign language learning and the manner he speaks
Chinese. I agree that he doesn't sound like a native, but that is not very important. If you
enjoy...

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Forum: Speaking and Listening 28th December 2005, 03:59 AM

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How could I get better at tones?

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experiences relearning tones

Roddy, apologies if I have missed this, since I haven't been keeping up with the forum for a
while, but did you ever get around to posting that article on your experiences 'relearning' tones
that you...

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Sunday, June 8, 2008

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Forum: Reading and Writing 17th June 2007, 04:12 AM

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Translation please

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Re: Translation please

Thanks for the replies so far, the names are for a mate of mine, he has two sons called Sebastian
and Joshua :)

Forum: Reading and Writing 16th June 2007, 08:37 PM

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Translation please

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Translation please

Hi can anyone tell me if these names are correct please?

What do they read?

1-
http://z.about.com/d/chineseculture/1/0/4/G/4/sabastian.gif

2-...

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Forum: Reading and Writing 1st March 2008, 03:12 PM

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Reading my book

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Posted By SWWLiu

Re: Reading my book

Somewhere (probably from Jade-), I saw:

无论如何,让我们假设世界上是有仙女的好了。
in any case, let us assume that they were the best fairies in the world.

Try this translation:

In any case, let us assume that there...

Forum: Reading and Writing 1st March 2008, 02:21 PM

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Reading my book

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Re: Reading my book

Someone indicated:

As for 曲膝礼, it refers the action to kneel to someone (kings, noblemen, etc.) to show respect

For 曲膝礼, "curtsy" was probably intended.

Also, for 约翰爵爷 (or "Duke John"), I...

Forum: Reading and Writing 1st March 2008, 10:38 AM

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Reading my book

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Further Comments on "并" and "他正在吃" -- Re: Reading my book

I would still like to comment on two interesting points/questions that hurtled by:

(I'm sorry to jump in so late, after the discussions have gone on over six pages already.)

[1]

Roddy stated...

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Saturday, June 7, 2008

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Forum: Reading and Writing 16th March 2008, 04:49 AM

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The Revival of Traditional Characters is Coming?

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Re: The Revival of Traditional Characters is Coming?

Perhaps China will move to traditional characters just to mess with all those foreigners learning
Chinese. :)

Much as I would like it to happen, I can't see them moving away from simplified. ...

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Forum: Reading and Writing 12th April 2008, 12:56 AM

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Giant Fairy Teddy Dwarf: Matthews and Matthews, "Learning Chinese Characters"

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"Learning Chinese Characters"

Hi,

I've been learning Mandarin for about 2 months now and the book "Learning Chinese Characters" by
Alison/Laurence Matthews has helped me a lot. Does anyone use this book or find the...

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Friday, June 6, 2008

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Forum: Reading and Writing 27th April 2008, 02:08 PM

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Translation~

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Re: Translation~

think you~

Forum: Reading and Writing 27th April 2008, 01:56 PM

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Translation~

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Translation~

I've seen a fashionable shop write its ”试衣间“ for "fitting room", i'm not sure if it is
appropriate,and how do you say "试衣间“ in English?

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Forum: Reading and Writing 6th May 2008, 02:05 PM

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Poll: Which "Remembering Hanzi" will you buy?

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Which "Remembering Hanzi" will you buy?

After hearing about "Remembering Hanzi" from the so-named thread, I looked at the samples and read
some more opinions about Remembering the Kanji, and I am now thoroughly excited and anxiously...

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Forum: ZDT Flashcards Forum 6th March 2008, 07:55 PM

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What happened to ZDT... it will not load...

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Re: What happened to ZDT... it will not load...

Well... it took a lot of leg work... but zdt is back up and runing again. :mrgreen: I had to
remove all the directories relating to ZDT... something in there must have been causing problems.
But now...

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What happened to ZDT... it will not load...

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Re: What happened to ZDT... it will not load...

latest update...
I seem to be having problem with the ZDT Software... I have been using the 0.7.0 version... I did
some Java upgrade... and the program stopped running... it will show the startup...

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What happened to ZDT... it will not load...

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What happened to ZDT... it will not load...

I seem to have messed up my ZDT 0.7.0 installation... I think it may be when I was cleaning up
some software and got rid of some old versions of Java... and then I realized that ZDT needs java
5.0......

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Forum: Adsotrans.com Forum 8th July 2007, 12:17 PM

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Downloadable dictionary file?

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Re: Downloadable dictionary file?

@woliveri

Hmm... haven't used Windows in awhile, but I remember running into issues with winzip and plain
gzip files. Here's a zip file for you: http://e.den.li/adso.single.zip

Hopefully this one...

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Downloadable dictionary file?

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Re: Downloadable dictionary file?

That's a dump directly from sqlite. You might have to fixup a few rows to get it to work.

It's a gzip file. You need to use WinZip or WinRAR if you're in Windows. If you're on Mac OS X,
it...

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Downloadable dictionary file?

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Re: Downloadable dictionary file?

Here's a zipped CSV file that I extracted from the latest development database. Format is

simplified,traditional,pinyin,english

http://e.den.li/adso-csv.zip (2.3M)

Hope this helps.

PS. Here's...

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Downloadable dictionary file?

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Re: Downloadable dictionary file?

my last post was done in reply to your first post on this thread. took me awhile to smooth out the
kinks with corrupted tables and utf-8 encoding :oops:

Forum: Adsotrans.com Forum 7th July 2007, 12:37 AM

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Downloadable dictionary file?

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Re: Downloadable dictionary file?

The data isn't really very normalized (in formal database terms), so it'll be hard for you to
construct a query that will get you what you need.

You could take the dump file and run a parsing...

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Downloadable dictionary file?

Views: 2,160

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Re: Downloadable dictionary file?

Thanks! An sqlite database, just what I was looking for.

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Downloadable dictionary file?

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Downloadable dictionary file?

Are there any plans to make the dictionary underneath adsotrans widely available in a cedict or
similar format? Stuff like that would help projects like Chinese Pera-kun or other client-side,...

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Forum: Speaking and Listening 15th May 2005, 01:59 AM

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Hardest sound to pronounce?

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I agree with you on -en and -eng! It took me...

I agree with you on -en and -eng! It took me about 10 minutes with a private tutor to resolve that
one. I had to repeat (and listen to) xue2sheng many times, but I think I have it now.

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Forum: Speaking and Listening 6th February 2005, 12:10 PM

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Why Do You Learn Chinese?(ple help me with the survey)

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1. Cuz I want to...as simple as that. I'm chinese...

1. Cuz I want to...as simple as that. I'm chinese and I can speak it fine grammar-wise but had
never gotten the chance to learn to write it. So yeah...I just wanna get involved with it more.

2. Hm I...

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Forum: Speaking and Listening 1st June 2005, 12:14 PM

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dashan 大山, Igor(from taiwan) and any others who have disgustingly good chinese

Views: 8,318

Posted By BeijingSlacker

I can't speak for others, but I personally do not...

I can't speak for others, but I personally do not find it more impressive when a Chinese learner
speak Beijing accent than other chinese accents. Actually I think it is probably easier to pick
up...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 28th May 2005, 03:18 AM

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dashan 大山, Igor(from taiwan) and any others who have disgustingly good chinese

Views: 8,318

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Not sure if I like Da Shan's style, but I think...

Not sure if I like Da Shan's style, but I think it would be really hard to speak better chinese
than he does as his Chinese is almost perfect. He's even got a Beijing accent.I've only seen one...

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Forum: Speaking and Listening 12th June 2004, 11:39 AM

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how is wu pronounced?

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No, if there is no glottal stop, then you get the...

No, if there is no glottal stop, then you get the Mandarin and Cantonese wu (a pure /u/). It's
still different from the English woo, although it doesn't sound at all like the English
pronunciation...

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how is wu pronounced?

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Well that's what I have been saying all along! ...

Well that's what I have been saying all along! If u is wu, then lu is lwu. There is no glottal
stop before the /u/ in Mandarin, so it sounds like there is a w consonant, but there isn't.
Whereas...

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how is wu pronounced?

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Please provide a reliable source stating there is...

Please provide a reliable source stating there is a consonant w before /u/ in pinyin wu. I'm
pretty sick of discussing to a wall.

Forum: Speaking and Listening 10th June 2004, 04:15 PM

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how is wu pronounced?

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Posted By ala

No, there is no extra w in the sound wu. If...

No, there is no extra w in the sound wu. If there is, then lu will be lwu too. It is simply /u/.

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glottal stops can occur before consonants as...

glottal stops can occur before consonants as well.

一、医、乌、安、愿、凹、碗 等 in Wu dialects have glottal stop initials.

每、拿、拉 等 in Wu dialects have glottal stop initials as well.

One of the most common...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 8th April 2004, 02:32 AM

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yup that's what I meant. not that the v is a...

yup that's what I meant. not that the v is a lisp.

Forum: Speaking and Listening 7th April 2004, 01:36 PM

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所谓“把一些带 w [ u ] 的音,读成 v ”,并不是英语那种唇齿摩擦音 [ v ]...

所谓“把一些带 w [ u ] 的音,读成 v ”,并不是英语那种唇齿摩擦音 [ v ]
。它只是在合口呼零声母的位置上出现了轻微的唇齿动作,丝毫没有摩擦音�
��痕迹。唇齿无擦通音国际音标是花体的
http://chinese.pku.edu.cn/bbs/attachments/F4bhXQ_v.gif.

Calling it a "v" will give people the wrong...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 30th March 2004, 11:18 AM

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Exactly.

Exactly.

Forum: Speaking and Listening 30th March 2004, 06:46 AM

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Um no, you are wrong. What I believe also...

Um no, you are wrong. What I believe also happens to be the official interpretation of Standard
Mandarin Chinese used in the PRC.

You are confusing tone 2 with y and w. In nonstandard speech, yes...

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The pinyin wu is tricky. I think the w- is not...

The pinyin wu is tricky. I think the w- is not pronounced at all if followed by an /u/. 乌鸦 is
pronounced uya without the w. 中午 is sometimes slurred (because of the -ng in 中), and you
have a w ish...

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I totally disagree with the first part. There are attractive girls in every nationality. I know,
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Re: most embarrassing moment while learning Chinese

Managed to get laughed at quite loudly yesterday. Cooking up some nice bits of seafood (Yum
(http://www.dreamsofwhitetiles.com/?p=715), Mmm (http://www.dreamsofwhitetiles.com/?p=714)) and
I'm asked...

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I work with a woman who's name is Guo Jia - the...

I work with a woman who's name is Guo Jia - the same as 'country' or 'nation', apart from the
tones which I'm lousy at anyway. One day someone came into the office while she was out, pointed
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Forum: Speaking and Listening 10th April 2004, 07:10 AM

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中国では、3世紀、魏、呉、蜀の三国時代、呉の国は江南にあって、建業(
今の南京)を首都として江南一帯を...

中国では、3世紀、魏、呉、蜀の三国時代、呉の国は江南にあって、建業(
今の南京)を首都として江南一帯を統治しており、この地方一帯を「呉」�
��地と呼んでいた。その後の南北朝時代に入っても、南朝は晋、宋、斉と�
�ずれも建康(建業を改名)を首都として漢文化を伝えていた。

日本に最初に漢字を伝えたのは、百済であるが、百済は朝鮮半島の南西�
��の黄海に面しており、中国との交流は、もっぱら当時の文化の中心であ�
�た南...

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There have been several migrations from the north...

There have been several migrations from the north to the south during Chinese history. Also
actually, 吴越 (region in Jiangsu 吴 and Zhejiang 越) has been believed to have brought rice
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Unfortunately here, for advanced classes they are providing definitions for new words in English,
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