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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Why bother learning Mandarin Chinese language?  It might be that China is Australia’s largest bilateral trade partner.  In an era when some countries are erecting “great big trade walls”, the opportunities for Australia are set to grow our...

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Parents (in Canberra) Taichi & Mandarin Solutions (太极中文研习社) is a local Canberra organisation providing integrated training in Chinese language and traditional Wushu (the Chinese martial arts known collectively in the West as ‘kungfu’). We have highly experienced Mandarin native...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]I have had a longstanding interest in Chinese culture and in learning Mandarin, both for its own sake, and as a means of interacting with the culture on a deeper level. As a result, I have, over time,...