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american chinese - by nancy - general zuo's chicken

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general tso's chicken

i stopped going to my study abroad chinese classes. chinese in a classroom is like learning about the world in a petri dish. it's like studying english by studying the grammar section of the SAT. i changed my phone to chinese. i feel like i've learnt so much just by being here and immersing myself in their suite of apps, getting used to what people do here, what is trending, how the jargon goes, what words drift off of the textbook. it's weird how life just feels like normal here, how the normal here is an upside down world to me. i thought coming to china would give me an instant sense…

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