Comments on: New Year Dose 01.01.09 http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/teams/new-year-dose-010109.html News from The German Bundesliga Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:57:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Parker http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/teams/new-year-dose-010109.html#comment-6918 Parker Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:34:33 +0000 http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/teams/new-year-dose-010109.html#comment-6918 BTW Jan, I think there are more than 885.000.000 Mandarin speakers now. There are at least 1.3 billion people in China and in other parts of the world, a lot of people know how to speak mandarin. BTW Jan, I think there are more than 885.000.000 Mandarin speakers now. There are at least 1.3 billion people in China and in other parts of the world, a lot of people know how to speak mandarin.

]]> By: Parker http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/teams/new-year-dose-010109.html#comment-6917 Parker Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:44:30 +0000 http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/teams/new-year-dose-010109.html#comment-6917 Ha ha, this is a huge ad for dfo and gerfans. Ha ha, this is a huge ad for dfo and gerfans.

]]> By: diana http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/teams/new-year-dose-010109.html#comment-6915 diana Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:53:39 +0000 http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/teams/new-year-dose-010109.html#comment-6915 Happy New Year, Jan. :) And everyone else on the Bundesliga Offside too. Whole load of stuff to catch up on. I was out with my family from late morning to early afternoon (it is almost the evening here now). Anyhow...great read from the Der Spiegel website in regards to the Ralf Rangnick interview. Very insightful indeed. ;) By the way, anyone wanting me to be their Mandarin 'teacher' (I did clicked onto the two links in the last dose)...I am not qualified to be one. :) Even if that is my second language and I had been speaking it since I was four. My command of the language ever since I graduated from secondary school (it will have been five years now, since we are now in 2009), has gone back to the basics. Now more or less just speaking it in daily life. My former school teachers are going to be shocked if they knew about how my Mandarin had went (psst, I was always among the best in class...and that only really happened when I was in secondary school). :P I may have failed my first language English once back in school (badly to the extent even my parents were stunned...even I had no idea why did it happened) but, Mandarin was one of those subjects which I had never ever failed. Never a single time. To be serious, I am always proud of that record I have. My friends were always jealous that I always did well in a good manner, but I did not have any secret formula how I went about studying it. Happy New Year, Jan. :) And everyone else on the Bundesliga Offside too. Whole load of stuff to catch up on. I was out with my family from late morning to early afternoon (it is almost the evening here now).

Anyhow…great read from the Der Spiegel website in regards to the Ralf Rangnick interview. Very insightful indeed. ;)

By the way, anyone wanting me to be their Mandarin ‘teacher’ (I did clicked onto the two links in the last dose)…I am not qualified to be one. :) Even if that is my second language and I had been speaking it since I was four.

My command of the language ever since I graduated from secondary school (it will have been five years now, since we are now in 2009), has gone back to the basics. Now more or less just speaking it in daily life. My former school teachers are going to be shocked if they knew about how my Mandarin had went (psst, I was always among the best in class…and that only really happened when I was in secondary school). :P I may have failed my first language English once back in school (badly to the extent even my parents were stunned…even I had no idea why did it happened) but, Mandarin was one of those subjects which I had never ever failed. Never a single time.

To be serious, I am always proud of that record I have. My friends were always jealous that I always did well in a good manner, but I did not have any secret formula how I went about studying it.

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