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'I like beer' in C'est du Chinois sounds quite nice #dekeuze.

The teachers recite it, a whistle sounds. The audience says it after, like wax in the hands of the five Chinese on stage.
Anyone who walks into the performance C'est du Chinois walks into a Mandarin language lesson. An effective language lesson besides, you actually understand the two little families-they have only been in the country for four months but plan to stay-after a while.

There are difficult words that take practice. 'Actor' for example, the father get...

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Jowi Schmitz

Jowi Schmitz writes (children's) books, articles, film scripts and short stories. Her YA book Weg (Road) won the Dioraphte Literatuur prize, or prize for best Young People's Book of the Year, her children's book Ik heet Olivia en daar kan ik ook niks aan doen (I can't do anything about it either) (Lemniscaat) will soon be filmed. She enjoys writing interdisciplinary: between fact and fiction. But then real. Apart from the film script, she is currently working on several articles, a documentary and a new children's book (8+) with the working title: Nachtwachter.View Author posts

The teachers recite it, a whistle sounds. The audience says it after, like wax in the hands of the five Chinese on stage.
Anyone who walks into the performance C'est du Chinois walks into a Mandarin language lesson. An effective language lesson besides, you actually understand the two little families-they have only been in the country for four months but plan to stay-after a while.

There are difficult words that take practice. 'Actor' for example, the father get...

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