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Monday, May 13, 2013

China! Module 5.....

China module is divided up between two cities. Shanghai and Beijing. Shanghai was the first week. The city looks like any modern city in the world. The city was predominantly built in the last 25 years. The architect is both modern and innovative on one side of the river and on the other-very old European architecture when there was a boom in the city in the early 1900s looking for trade routes with China. My first impression was the immediate unrecognizable language. I have grown up and been surrounded by the English language, with exposure to the European languages. I can understand a lot more Spanish than I can speak. So traveling in Brazil, Argentina, and Spain I had a familiarity with the dominate languages and could understand enough to find my way around a conversation.  However,...
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