中国
As I walked and rode buses and taxis through Hong Kong, I saw the overhead signs in Chinese and some of the symbols kept being repeated.
The sign which looks like a wide oblong with a line through the middle is the first character of the word for China and means centre. As far as the Chinese were concerned, their country was the centre of the universe, and the world. Just like the British considered Britain as the base with Britain being home, the Far East being far, and the Middle East being in the middle of a journey to the Far East.
You only need to be told once and you get it.
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中国
China.
Useful Websites On Countries and Languages
wikipedia China
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About the Author's Language Experience
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, blogger and public speaker. She is British but she and her next of kin have lived in the USA, Spain, multi-lingual Switzerland and multilingual Singapore. She is active in toastmasters clubs and has visited Toastmasters clubs in the UK, China, Singapore, Thailand and the Czech Republic. She visits online Toastmasters clubs all around the world up to three times a day, morning afternoon and evening, sometimes attending and speaking at one meeting online on a laptop and on her mobile phone. She has attended meetings of toastmasters groups speaking English, French, Chinese and Malay, as well as bilingual and English speaking clubs in the USA, UK, Canada, Singapore, and Korea.
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Angela Lansbury is a author and speaker. She evaluates speeches, judges speech contests and runs language workshops. She also draws caricatures.
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