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Darcey
Mar 31, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: language, china, memoir
While not quite the sort of language memoir I was intending to find, "Dreaming in Chinese" is the sort of language memoir I found unexpectedly *wanting* to read. Fallows talks about selected experiences in China, from trying to sneak a candy bar into the Olympics to finding language teachers while in Shanghai, and intersperses Chinese vocabulary into them (explaining the meanings as she goes). This provides the reader not only a grounding in experiences Fallows has, but also the language that co ...more
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Shelves: asia, china
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