Beijing Bound: China Is Ready to Welcome the World
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › August 03, 2008
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BEIJING -- Faced with my blank look of incomprehension, the taxi driver took a deep breath and tried again.
"Ha-pi-tu-mi-te-yu," he intoned.See the full content of this document
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Beijing Bound: China Is Ready to Welcome the World
Wow, I thought, six years out of Beijing and a long-haul flight from Europe have turned my once almost fluent Chinese to mush.
Then, it hit me. This was English. "'Happy to meet you?'" I asked.He beamed proudly.Give Beijingers this much: They sure want Olympic visitors to feel right at home.In the seven years since the Olympic movement anointed Beijing as host of the 2008 Summer Games, China's capital has undergone a ...See the full content of this document
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