Slide 1title Chinese Calendrical System © Howard R. Spendelow Georgetown University draft as of 27 Jan 2014 Slide 2 title Slide 3 Twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac Slide…

Slide 1Language Documentation & Archiving Heidi Johnson The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) The University of Texas at Austin Slide 2 Acknowledgements…

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Slide 1 Unit 14 Reading The Birth of A Festival Slide 2 Study the words or phrases in the box and group them into pairs. Words with similar meaning: 1.honour /respect 2.purpose…

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