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		<title>The Chinese Language and Characters, Simplified or Traditional</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an Online Chinese School, at www.chinesesphere.com, we never debate about what to teach, simplified or traditional characters.  We teach them both for students who have the time and willingness to learn them.  I was born and raised in China during Cultural Revolution, and still manage to learn both forms of Chinese characters since I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesesphere.com/2010/07/the-chinese-language-and-characters-simplified-or-traditional/</link>
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		<title>The Growing Importance of Learning Chinese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The value of learning Chinese has become self-evident and enrollment in top Chinese language programs in US K12 schools, private and public nationwide has increased significantly. In fact, Chinese language school in San Francisco report that families have actually relocated their entire household to the Bay Area—&#8221;just so their kids can go to a Chinese [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesesphere.com/2010/07/the-growing-importance-of-learning-chinese/</link>
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		<title>Chinese college graduates has high unemployment rate, just like here in the United States</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Educated and Fearing the Future in China is the title of this article (click on the link below), it will be equally true if we just change China to United States in the heading.  Even last decade, having a college degree means having a job and career, now a wider notion of ability and sense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesesphere.com/2010/04/chinese-college-graduates-has-high-unemployment-rate-just-like-here-in-the-united-states/</link>
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		<title>Solutions to Teaching Chinese in United States</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have read this report in 2008 when our online Chinese school was in its infancy.  Now, after 3 years of explosive growth in student counts, Chinese lessons delivered, and AP courses offered, we have proved beyond the reasonable doubt that learning Chinese online is the most effective and efficient way to increase geographic coverage of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesesphere.com/2010/04/solutions-to-teaching-chinese-in-united-states/</link>
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		<title>Foreign Languages Fade in Class — Except Chinese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read this article in New York Times a few month back and did not get time to comment on it, here is the link to the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/education/21chinese.html?hp
Article states, “Among America’s approximately 27,500 middle and high schools offering at least one foreign language, the proportion offering Chinese rose to 4 percent, from 1 percent, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesesphere.com/2010/04/foreign-languages-fade-in-class-%e2%80%94-except-chinese-2/</link>
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		<title>Learning Chinese is Fashionable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have seen Chinese influence in fashion, furniture, home decor, and mall shops’ window displays.  Now it is fashionable to learn Chinese even on the top university campuses globally.   One of our students is attending UCLA, she was telling me, Chinese classes are the hottest on campus, they are all booked full the day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesesphere.com/2010/04/learning-chinese-is-fashionable/</link>
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		<title>Before Heading to China…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read an article on WSJ,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574302052610981892.html?mod =WSJ_hps_MIDDLEForthNews#articleTabs%3Darticle
I think it is way pass the time to educate the companies about the basic of entering the Chinese market place, I was a consultant and taking large multinationals to China 15 years ago.  If any company still do not know all of those basic things before heading to China [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesesphere.com/2010/04/before-heading-to-china%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>What Recession (in China)?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in Tianjin, P.R. China last month, there is no sign of recession anywhere to be found.
The restaurants are packed, I have visited more than 10 restaurants, none of them are empty in anyway.  Shopping malls are full, the high end, low end and mid range are packed with people.  Real estate prices are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesesphere.com/2010/04/what-recession-in-china/</link>
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		<title>Learn the Language of Your Customers and Bankers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read an article on Fortune http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/07/news/international/china_natural_resources.fortune/index.htm
There are many advantages of speaking Chinese, even better if you can read and write Chinese.  While the global economic crisis is continuing into its 3rd year soon, the Chinese market has been growing again since the second quarter of 2009.  One of our students just got an offer in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesesphere.com/2010/04/learn-the-language-of-your-customers-and-bankers/</link>
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		<title>It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop &#8211; Confucius</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am working on marketing material for www.chineseschool.com, and tumble upon this quote by Confucius:
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop
Learning Chinese or any other languages is a slow process, as long as you do not stop, you will achieve the results you envisioned for yourself.
www.chinesesphere.com has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesesphere.com/2010/04/it-does-not-matter-how-slowly-you-go-so-long-as-you-do-not-stop-confucius/</link>
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