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Mar 2024
12m 54s

Intermediate | Signing up for Art Class

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You've always admired those Guilin paintings. You know the ones... winding river, limestone mountains... with the pagoda up on the right and that bamboo raft floating by in the foreground. Sometime they get a little crazy and throw in a water buffalo over there on the left. Well, now you too can do your own rendition. Sign up for this podcast, and get a Mandarin Chinese lesson in art. Masterpiece! Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0865

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