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Great to hear that the Thai cave rescue was a success (bar the tragic loss of Saman Kuban. RIP), but am I the only one who finds this a tad distasteful, seeing as it's not even been a week since the rescue mission was completed? https://m.uk.ign.com/articles/2018/07/11/thai-cave-rescue-is-becoming-a-movie?abthid=5b462de6c4c8c01936000426

@nudge - If you haven't yet, you should check out Yellow Bridge's website. Great for learning how to say and write characters in Mandarin.

You can. So I learned a bit of Romanian, and partly how I did it was by reaching out to the regional Romanian representative, and asking him how to immerse with local Romanians, to which he gave me a few options. I promise you can do the same in San Diego

Chinese is a funny language, I lived there myself and studied it for years using kids books and just speaking with the locals. Personally, while Chinese was my...5th or so language that I studied, it was somewhat easier because I was living in a small city in China where no one spoke English except for my students and few engineers that lived in the city. Also, my friend learned it through Duolingo (or learned as much as you can with Duolingo), and is in Shanghai now, saying that it absolutely helped him. With almost all languages, including Arabic, Hindi, and Chinese (some of the hardest languages to learn for native English speakers), the key is to find a community that speaks that language and immerse yourself with them. Right now I'm studying Spanish and I am only drinking Mexican beer, listing to the Spanish radio station to and from work, and eating at a Mexican restaurant while ordering for me and my family all in Spanish.

https://imgur.com/a/YrUip0D Somebody put a lot of effort into this.

All kids and the coach are out and safe! Now waiting for the remaining 3 Thai NavySEALs and the doctor to come out, and it all will be over at last EDIT: Latest Update: Mission accomplished!!! Everyone including the last SEALs, volunteer divers, Aussie doc and the medics are out. This is truly an extraordinary effort by everyone involved, kudos to the heroic rescue team and all the helpers. Also, RIP Saman Gunan, a fallen hero who died delivering oxygen the cave and made this possible...

Waqar Younis > Wasim Akram Rahul Dravid > Tendulkar Abdul Qadir > Warne Srinath = underrated bowler of all time Ajmal > Naraine + Ashvin Ambrose + Walsh >= Waqar + Wasim Garry Sobers > Imran Khan > Ian Bothom > Richard Hadlle > Kapel Dev Pakistan 1999 World Cup squad = only second to Australia's golden generation note[1] Afridi = ∞ 1. By that i mean in the modern game not including the Windies in the 70s 80s.