Hope someone out there can help!Can anyone here help me with a simple question?

Which organisation offers the best Chinese language courses? I am not looking for  university level but rather somewhere that you go for a few hours each week to develop basic skills in both reading and speaking.

Hope someone out there can help!

Everyone from the UK will know the Dandy, the famous comic for children but it looks like it is going to close!I used to be a member of the Desperate Dan Pie Club. A sad day indeed

Britain's oldest comic The Dandy faces closure after 75 years as sales fall to just 8,000 a week



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The travel package of Vatternrundan China Internnational Cycling Tourism Festival 2012 is going to be discounted for the celebration of The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture's 60th anniversary. RMB 3500 yuan for 4 nights 5days package is now RMB 1000 yuan only. 5-star-class accommodation and transportation will provided for you wholeheartedly.You may enjoy the sight of aesthetic humanistic scenery while roaming the track freely.The luxury experience for this 4 nights 5 days is…

A firm in the Australian outback is so desperate to attract good workers that it is offering successful applicants free beer for a year.

Like most remote towns in the country, Moree in New South Wales has had trouble keeping young people away from the lure of higher salaries offered by mining firms and heavy industry, says Eric Scott, operation manager for Electrical and Air Conditioning Services.

But extra health benefits, holiday…

Ok - a fun game - what does this word mean?

I will be relinquishing my position as bowling commissioner and am seeking a replacement.

The duties will be to go to the Redbuds hotel during business hours (before 4 pm) to purchase the tickets. Every Thursday the commissioner will be at the lanes from 7pm to sell the tickets to people wishing to play.

The benefits are that the tickets are 4 rmb and the commissioner will sell them for 5 rmb to cover "administrative" costs.

Anyone interested in doing this can contact me…

Robert Frost said, “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”  When something is translated, phrases tend to get rendered down, curtailed, simplified.  Still, even in translation, some new voice is asserting its own flair, knuckling its own spin into a basic meaning.

One morning earlier this week, avoiding the lessons in my Chinese text book, I stumbled onto a daily affirmation site, and I tried to translate a bit into Chinese.  I asked Mandy to check it over, and then I posted it and…

我们会遇到很多人...…

A little experiment:  I translated a daily affirmation, with a little help, into Chinese.  I hope some Chinese speakers will translate it back into English.  Then I would like to post the original with the new translations.  Please translate!

我有心耐，是好心人。周围的人也是好心的。不管什么事情发生了，心无杂念，所以我跟别人和睦相处。          

Now, for those of you who do not know, pork scratchings are the most wonderful snack to go with a cool beer in the evening.

Mahatma Jack has perfected the art of creating the perfect snack

We will be launching this new product SOON!

We have the expertise, we can do the marketing!

This is our first idea - a bag - like a bag of crisps with the following inscirption:

MAHATMA JACK'S PORK…

OK - Garret and Jack are both men about town

Here is a challenge

To write a weekly expose of the bar life in the Chun - to be posted every week, on a Monday in ChangchunLive.com

Are you guys up for it?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A question - what are the eccentric, strange, wonderful, bizarre, experiences you have had in Changchun?

To kick off......

I was moving house and my girlfriend was directing the taxi I was in. Another taxi pulled in front of us at a traffic lights. The lights were on red.

My taxi driver got upset and stormed out of his taxi, went up to the taxi in front of us and pulled open the door and a full fist fight ensued

The lights turned to green and my taxi driver rushed…

Its all good

I like it

When I was in Guangzho

No, no, no, no, no,no - ok - just one more

I met him once

its awesome

Who are they and can you add any more?

The Microsoft Xbox is a videogame system developed by Microsoft and it was released on November 8th, 2001. And it is also called  somatic game.

Many accessories are available for the console, including both wired and wireless controllers, faceplates for customization, headsets for chatting, a…

This is just an idea. Lets hold a SPECIAL poetry day in nanhu Park celebrating some of the great poets/dramatists/writers from around the worl

I will work on Shakespeare

Here are some of his great pieces:

Famous Speeches from Shakespeare's plays

Tell us a little about your home town here!

Man Rescues Drowning Family Who Then Leave While He Drowns

Young Man Drowns Saving Family of Three, The Rescued Leave Saying It Has Nothing To Do With Them: To save a…

It's surreal; it's mysteriously mind-bending; its out on Amazon with Ferney's art work: Angels, Delirium Liberty.  I REALLY need reviews!  If you would like to do one, I'll give you one of the old copies for free.

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