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Tongue twisters in a foreign language are always a very funny and effective way to improve one's pronunciation. Since Chinese is a tonal language, this adds another difficulty to the tongue twisters, because they also play around with in the tones while pronunciation eventually stays the same. Here is a popular and quite difficult example:

Paul Denlinger at China Vortex shares some good commentary on this week's Economist lead article about China. Essentially the article states that the angry nationalism that has swept China isn't actually at Western nations and Western media's continual mis-representation of the country, but rather misguided anger towards the gov't. Paul disagrees.

The Chinese languages are the third largest mother tongue group – more than a million people (1,034,000) reported a Chinese language as their mother tongue in 2006, an increase of 18.5% since 2001.

WITH pigs dying all over the country and the price of pork soaring, China has come under suspicion of attempting to cover up a dangerous outbreak of an infectious disease. It is not the first time such suspicions have fallen upon China

A 17 year old teenager shows how he got a snake tongue (forked tongue) using tongue piercings. Very violent, very bloody pictures. Includes others' comments.

A short summary of The Economist's recent 14-page report about China's "hunger" for natural resources and its impact on the global economy.

The Chinese media and netizens speculate over why advertisements with Lust Caution star Tang Wei have been pulled from television.

Chinese director, Feng Xiaogang, has a new film that he is casting no-stars for.

The lead actress is Tang Yan - a newcomer has appeared in only ...

Recently the Economist put out its Democracy Index which is always interesting reading. Pretty much anytime you start fairly arbitrarily ranking things, I’m in. There were a few interesting points that I noticed.