Thanks Tom!
by tdaxp ~ September 12th, 2007
Major props to Thomas P.M. Barnett, as his gift of the Chinese edition of Pentagon’s New Map arrived with this morning’s mail.
谢谢!
(Now to learn Chinese beyond the pre-school level….. %-} )
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September 15th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Awesome!
September 18th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Yep!
It stil possible to start learning Chinese alone online ( http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese for instance ).
Good luck!