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5 Ways To Learn Foreign Languages For Free

1. http://www.fsi-language-courses.com/
This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an electronic format. it is an independent, non-profit effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages.

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Re: International or English school in Yantai

Our first request is about international or English school in Yantai. I did some dig. It turns out that we have 2 options. The one i would recommend you is Yew Wah International Education School of Yantai.

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A compiled list of the most popular Chinese websites

Web search
baidu
sogou
News
sina news

sohu news
yahoo China

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A list of 5-star hotels in Yantai

These are the top ranked hotels in Yantai — Golden Gulf Hotel, Orient Haitian Hotel, Ramada Plaza and a 4 star hotel Marina Hotel.

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Let’s talk about Chinese cuisine

There are eight regional cuisines, (八大菜系): Anhui, Cantonese, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Sichuan, and Zhejiang. Among them, Cantonese, Sichuan, Shandong, and Jiangsu cuisine  are often considered as the standard of Chinese cuisine and due to their influence are claimed as the Four Great Traditions (四大菜系)

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What’s a reliable source for Chinese news reading?

To be honest with you,  there is no reliable source for Chinese news reading because most of the Chinese made English sites update at a very slow speed. The news won’t be “news” if it doesn’t new, right? Anyway, here are 2 main Chinese online media:   sohu.com (English version) and sina.com (English version)

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A list of Yantai high education institutions

Since there are a large number of foreign students and teachers in Yantai, I’d like to give those people who wants to teach or to be taught in Yantai a general idea of Yantai high education institutions.

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Your First Tourism Stop —- Penglai Pagoda

Penglai Pagoda ( peng lai ge) is one of the most well-known tourism place in China. It’s just 40 minutes drive away from downtown, Yantai.  Since its not far, you can always pay a visit at weekend.

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A Brief Description of Yantai

Yantai is a prefecture-level city (di ji shi) in northeastern Shandong province. It has 13,739.9 km² in area and 6.5 in population. Yantai administers 12 county-level divisions (xian ji shi), including 4 districts, 7 county-level cities, 1 county and one development zone. Zhifu District is downtown, Yantai.

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First Post

mincius.com is a life blog specific designed for the expatriates in Yantai. Our goal is to make a community for those expatriates who live in Yantai, provide as much help as we can and hopefully make you a Yantaier!
Right now we have started blog and forum which is enough for the essential using.  If you [...]

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