Sunday, May 10, 2009

Want to learn a new language? You need this giveaway!

By SteamyKitchen / 634 comments »

I was born in Hong Kong but came to the United States when I was 4 years old. We lived in the midwest and in the 1970′s, being the only ethnic kid in school was so not cool. It was a really tough life, constantly being teased for being different and I made myself forget my Cantonese. I just wanted to fit in!

My parents speak Chinese to us and so my brother and I can understand everyday colloquial Cantonese (especially when they’re sayin’ stuff about us) and a teensy tiny bit of Mandarin…but our brains would need a re-wiring to be able to speak the language.

And now, I totally regret not taking the time to re-learn Chinese. I can teach the kids simple words and short phrases and cuss words…but I wish I knew more of the language to be able to speak it at home.

Which is why I think Praxis has a fantastic system. It’s like language school 2.0. They publish a audio and video podcast with Chinese lessons and your journey is fully personalized with lesson plans based on your level, topics that interest you (like flirting, business, shopping, etc.) and a community online that you can practice with. Over 250,000 are already learning Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese and English. Praxis gave me a a 2-week trial to try out (you can sign up for a 1 week free trial at Chinese Pod) and offered a nice giveaway for my readers.

Wanna learn how to read and pronounce Chinese menu items? Check out their Chinese Pod’s Chinese Menu Stealer series. Here’s a sample video:

So, to kick off this contest, on Mother’s Day I made the sweet-and-sour-spare-ribs_090510__024_web Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs recipe for you.

Praxis Language Program Giveaway

And guess what? I’m giving away a 12-month Praxis Premium Subscription (worth $239) to Steamy Kitchen readers! Have you ever wanted to learn  Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese or English? If you win, you get your choice of language program. Now, that’s really cool. You have until May 23rd 12pm EST to enter.

To enter, just COMMENT BELOW and tell me which language you’d like to learn!

For a BONUS ENTRY – subscribe to the free Steamy Kitchen email newsletter. My email subscribers get automatically get an extra entry in every contest that I hold.

CONTEST OVER! The winner is announced!

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634 Responses to “Want to learn a new language? You need this giveaway!”

  1. 1

    gabrielle — 5/10/09 @ 11:38 pm

    I would love to learn Spanish, as I live in a state with a quickly growing Hispanic population.

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    Amy Ferguson — 5/10/09 @ 11:46 pm

    French for sure! I took french classes from kindergarten through highschool but have retained almost nothing!
    Amy

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    Pamela — 5/10/09 @ 11:48 pm

    I would love to learn Japanese. I had almost the exact samechold hood experience as you, Jaden, except I’m half Japanese. Wish I learned more than how to speak the food.

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    James Brown — 5/10/09 @ 11:51 pm

    I so need to learn Spanish.

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    dev — 5/11/09 @ 12:05 am

    Italian. So many things to read…!

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    Anna — 5/11/09 @ 12:06 am

    Oh my gosh, Mandarin, Mandarin, Mandarin! I would love to know how to speak to my relatives! Please consider my plea!

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    Meg — 5/11/09 @ 12:08 am

    I would love to learn French again. I had it in school and loved it, but lost it due to lack of use in the Midwest. Well, now I live in Seattle, only a 3hour drive from Canada. I would be thrilled to re-learn it well enough to take that trip to Montréal I’m saving for…

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    ellen — 5/11/09 @ 12:08 am

    French. I want to be able to pronounce Chocolate&Zucchini’s food idioms!

  9. 9

    Gerard — 5/11/09 @ 12:17 am

    Hi

    Love your site.

    I would love to learn Chinese..

    Have a great day :)

  10. 10

    Mari — 5/11/09 @ 12:17 am

    French!

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    Hanna — 5/11/09 @ 12:21 am

    I definitely want to learn Italian, even though it’s perhaps not as practical as relearning Spanish. But, c’mon, Italian! I grin just thinking of learning it.

  12. 12

    Justopia — 5/11/09 @ 12:23 am

    While I’d love to learn Chinese, I started learning Spanish when I lived in Argentina a few years ago and soooooo need to become fluent. Hard to believe I left after a year and a half and only spoke “caveman” Spanish (no verb conjugation — Me want learn.) :) So, I want to learn Spanish — for real this time.

  13. 13

    Jane — 5/11/09 @ 12:24 am

    My husband has been wanting to learn Spanish. If I was lucky enough to win this, I’d gift it to him!

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    Passionate Eater — 5/11/09 @ 12:28 am

    I actually know a little French and spoken Mandarin, so Spanish would be my choice. Thanks for the giveaway Jaden! And though I grew up in a place where my family were the only Asians, my Chinese is actually pretty good because my siblings and I used it as a “secret” language to talk smack about all of the bullies who used to make fun of our Asian-ness. If they only knew what we were saying about them! But other than that, we totally assimilated, so Jaden, I am feeling you. I only learned how to cook real Chinese food in my later years, but if you want a mean Shake-N-Bake pork chop with mashed potatoes, come to my house!

    LOL!!! Shake n Bake ANYTIME! ~j

  15. 15

    Anne-Laure — 5/11/09 @ 12:29 am

    Wow!
    I’d like to learn spanish!

  16. 16

    shez — 5/11/09 @ 12:32 am

    i would love to learn chinese (all those years in chinese school taught me oh so little…)

  17. 17

    Denise — 5/11/09 @ 12:32 am

    I’d need to learn Chinese. Husband is in school for Masters in International Management! Guess where we’ll be heading after graduation!?!?! :)

  18. 18

    Brian Lew — 5/11/09 @ 12:32 am

    Hi,
    I would love to learn Mandarin and Cantonese. I have taken some classes but still need a lot more work.

  19. 19

    Jean — 5/11/09 @ 12:33 am

    Always wish I could speak Spanish! My friend (who is fluent) and I would love to be able to talk to one another in Spanish!!!

  20. 20

    Vivian — 5/11/09 @ 12:33 am

    I would love to learn French. But a more practical language for me to learn would definitely be Spanish. It would definitely help when I shop at the local carniceria and mercado.

  21. 21

    Nathan — 5/11/09 @ 12:34 am

    I would like to learn Mandarin. I go into many Chinese restaurants where the broken English translation often bears no resemblance to the dish it describes, so it would be great to be able to read the corresponding Chinese characters or ask the waiter in Chinese!

  22. 22

    brilynn — 5/11/09 @ 12:37 am

    I’ve wanted to learn Spanish for a long time now. I took it briefly in University but just didn’t have the time to keep up with it. I speak French though so I don’t think Spanish would be that hard to pick up.

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    Marisa Galitz — 5/11/09 @ 12:38 am

    I plan on learning Mandarin. So far I know about 300 characters … only 2700 more to go.

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    Kristina — 5/11/09 @ 12:40 am

    My dream is to someday be fluent in the most beautiful language, Italian. I think I’m just going to have to live in Italy someday, but in the meantime, some lessons couldn’t hurt…

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    Will LaShell — 5/11/09 @ 12:50 am

    I want to learn Mandarin. I have spent several months in southern China and will be returning there at some point. I want to be able to speak wih the locals about their traditional cooking techniques and recipes, especially my friends from Chengdu! (Home of the exquisite spicy hot pot!)

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    Janet — 5/11/09 @ 12:52 am

    I’ve always wanted to learn Italian… but for practical purposes, here in the southwest, Spanish would be a better choice. What a fantastic giveaway, Jaden!

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    Rodrigo — 5/11/09 @ 12:53 am

    Well, I can speak English and French, and every Brazilian worth his salt can hack away some Spanish. It’s a tough choice between the two remaining contenders, as I’ve wanted to learn Chinese since I started practicing kung fu with a chinese master, and I have Italian ancestors. Hmmm…

    Ok, I give in to my practical side: I’d like to learn Italian, since I’ll probably travel to Italy sometime next year to do some research on my family roots.

    Ciao!

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    Jessica — 5/11/09 @ 12:58 am

    i would love to learn italian so i can be ready when i head to rome(which hopefully will happen soon!)

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    Lisa — 5/11/09 @ 1:00 am

    Thanks for this opportunity! I could really use a refresher course in Chinese. Love your blog and especially your recent recipe for Vietnamese crock-pot pho!

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    Jessica — 5/11/09 @ 1:03 am

    I would love to learn Spanish. Or pick up French where I left off in College.

  31. 31

    Jamie — 5/11/09 @ 1:06 am

    I would love to learn Spanish!

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    Vicki — 5/11/09 @ 1:09 am

    I need to learn Italian, as I plan on retiring in Italy someday.

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    Daphne — 5/11/09 @ 1:10 am

    I would love to learn Italian! I’m planning on visiting next year and knowing the language a little would make it a lot less intimidating!

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    Truc — 5/11/09 @ 1:11 am

    Oooh, tough. I’ve taken a wee bit of German and Italian before…I think I’d go with Italian.

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    MLC — 5/11/09 @ 1:30 am

    like you, I only remember smatterings of Chinese (Mandarin in my case) so that would definitely be my choice.

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    Alisa - Frugal Foodie — 5/11/09 @ 1:31 am

    OMG! Awesome! I am so close on Spanish that it is the language I really want to master. I have studied it on a few occasions and in a couple countries, but always too far apart to be fluent. This would be soooo cool!

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    Bill — 5/11/09 @ 1:41 am

    Mandarin, Mandarin, Mandarin… Have you thought about collaborating with ChinesePod to deliver some real foodie recipes. “Lear Chinese and cook great food at the same time.”

    Anyway, aside from the competition. Great site, subscribing now. :)

  38. 38

    PinkDevora — 5/11/09 @ 1:42 am

    Ooh, Mandarin in my case! You know, adopting from China and all. Please?

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    Annalise — 5/11/09 @ 1:50 am

    I would love to learn French!

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    bionicgrrrl — 5/11/09 @ 1:58 am

    I took French for 6 years in high school, but I can hardly speak a word. French, s’il vou plait.

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    Marjy — 5/11/09 @ 2:00 am

    In California, you just can’t go wrong with Spanish. I’ve taken two classes so far (with one good teacher, one marginal teacher, and a crummy book that I can’t sell back), and now I can read it tolerably, but put me on the phone with a Spanish-speaker, and I’m sunk!

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    Pam — 5/11/09 @ 2:03 am

    I’d love to learn Chinese, and The Menu Stealer motivates me to do it! Fun, creative, engaging, practical…just my cup of tea! Thanks for posting this, Jaden.

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    Olaf — 5/11/09 @ 2:07 am

    I would absolutely love to learn Mandarin :)

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    Ma'ayan — 5/11/09 @ 2:14 am

    French

  45. 45

    Niya — 5/11/09 @ 2:16 am

    I would love to learn spanish, or better my french – it will help my translate all the recipes my friends mother’s have given me over the years for our community cook book :)

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    Giovani — 5/11/09 @ 2:24 am

    French : )

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    Dahlia — 5/11/09 @ 2:28 am

    Hello :)
    I would love to learn Spanish!
    Thanks,
    Dahlia

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    JonP — 5/11/09 @ 2:29 am

    I’d love to learn mandarin. Like yourself, I grew up not wanting anything to do with it. Different now that I’m an adult :) I feel like I’m missing part of my heritage.

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    baba bardwan — 5/11/09 @ 2:40 am

    ChinesePod has such an tantalising menu of lessons to learn from that at $239 it is already a steal,so we’re all menu stealers together,and rooting for our hero,our man of steel,the menu stealer.Jiayou !!

    Jaden,your unfortunate experience reminds me a little of the 70′s Kung Fu TV series [though fictional of course] of which I was a huge fan as a kid [and still am].Kwai Chang Caine also had trouble fitting in to the American West.My journey in Mandarin brings to mind the beginning of Caines journey and where I hope to be in the end.I feel like the young Caine asking MasterPo [CPod] about the grasshopper [distinguishing tones and picking up words in rapid speech]: “Old man,how is it that you here these things?” with the reply coming “young man,how is it that you do not?”…and then being shown just how easy it can be through excellent teaching.I would make such good use of a 12 month Premium Subscription that I think I’d have a pretty good crack at snatching the pebble from the hand in the end.

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    Anne B. — 5/11/09 @ 2:54 am

    Would like to learn Spanish.
    Really enjoy your site!

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    bruleeblog — 5/11/09 @ 2:56 am

    I’d like Spanish. Too bad they don’t offer Cantonese, because I’d be all over that one.

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    Mike Hassel Shearer — 5/11/09 @ 3:01 am

    Of course I wish to continue with Chinesepod. Most of us love Jenny and some even love Ken. As a follower since Day#2 of Chinsepod I can highly recommend if you don’t win but want to learn, invest and enjoy Chinesepod.

  53. 53

    David — 5/11/09 @ 3:02 am

    I would like to learn Chinese as I am similar like you, as my grandfather migrated to Indonesia and the government disallowed us to learn Chinese language (during my parents time and my time). Thus, I would be glad if I can preseve my blood as well as my mother tounge (my supposed to be mothe tounge) and culture.

  54. 54

    David — 5/11/09 @ 3:11 am

    I’d like Spanish – not as romantic or sexy like Italian or French, but definitely more useful in this part of the country.

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    suzy nam — 5/11/09 @ 3:12 am

    chinese! would come in very hand in this part of the world.

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    Michael King — 5/11/09 @ 3:27 am

    Ni Hao. Im new to Chinese Pod and love learning Mandarin there. From the ChinesePod website I was introduced to the great site here. Its awesome I love it and will share with my friends. Please enter me in the drawing. Xie Xie.

  57. 57

    maisnon — 5/11/09 @ 3:33 am

    OMG – Spanish!

  58. 58

    Annelise Johnsen — 5/11/09 @ 3:33 am

    I’d love to learn Spanish.

  59. 59

    amy — 5/11/09 @ 3:38 am

    Wow. I’d actually like to learn all of ‘em w/ the exception of the English.

    Chinese perhaps?

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    justM — 5/11/09 @ 3:59 am

    Pick me Pick me pls …i would like to learn French

  61. 61

    Mish — 5/11/09 @ 4:15 am

    Chinese!

    If I could speak to my boyfriend in his native language, it will help me to understand him from an entirely different perspective (and make his parents happy)! I’d also like to go to Taiwan after I graduate, and try out all the great food there. I’ve already tried 臭豆腐… 好吃！

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    Patty — 5/11/09 @ 4:21 am

    I would definitely like to learn Spanish!

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    Murasaki Shikibu — 5/11/09 @ 5:21 am

    I don’t think I could ever get the intonations right when speaking Mandarin so I can forget about Cantonese which is even more difficult! :p

    When I was traveling in the mainland, I carried a Canon Word Tank and let it write Chinese characters for me which I used to communicate with people at restaurants and the hotels. It worked beautifully unless the person was illiterate. :)

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    Liz — 5/11/09 @ 5:37 am

    Chinese would be good but Spanish much more practical given my line of work – social work in NYC. As a “jook-sing” my Toisanese remains at the 5 year old level despite the fact that I’ve become more Asian/Chinese as I age.

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    Carole — 5/11/09 @ 5:38 am

    I’d love to learn Italian. Continuing the French I took in high school would be a close second.

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    Johnny Wang — 5/11/09 @ 5:45 am

    I’d probably go with Chinese as well. While I can get by conversationally, I still want to improve my actual ability to read. Learning to read a menu would sure be helpful :)

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    Donna — 5/11/09 @ 6:00 am

    Would love to work on Mandarin!!!

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    Shawn — 5/11/09 @ 6:15 am

    Oooh Jaden this is awesome. Although Mandarin would be awesome (heck, any would) I’d choose Spanish.

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    Mike — 5/11/09 @ 6:25 am

    It’d be really cool to learn Chinese.

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    Heikki — 5/11/09 @ 6:46 am

    menu stealer is great, I choose chinese :)

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    Elizabeth — 5/11/09 @ 7:01 am

    Either French or Spanish…I’m a bit of a polyglot, I’ve studied Spanish, French, and Russian and my Spanish and French are still there (I can read – which is very helpful for my job) but they’re very very rusty (i.e. I can’t understand it when its spoken)

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    Ileana — 5/11/09 @ 7:07 am

    Chinese for me please!

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    Dana McCauley — 5/11/09 @ 7:09 am

    There are so many languages I’d like to learn! I think the most practical language for me to perfect though would be French since I’ve already got the basics down and I am a Canadian (in case you didn’t know, French is one of our two official languages).

    But, my husband’s family heritage is Dutch so learning that language would be nice, too.

    So there you have it: French or Dutch….can’t decide before coffee.

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    Sara — 5/11/09 @ 7:23 am

    Chinese for sure!

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    Berion — 5/11/09 @ 7:26 am

    As a student of Chinese in Vienna University i can only say that even from the limited experience I have from a one-week trial period Chinesepod is so much more cool and helpful than the actual lessons we have in university.
    So, definitely Chinese for me!
    And yay for Jenny…
    …and the Menu Stealer of course! ;-)

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    Walden — 5/11/09 @ 7:27 am

    Spanish, I am finishing up my teaching degree and spanish is pretty much the second language in this country. It would be nice to be able to converse with more students.

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    Sarah — 5/11/09 @ 7:29 am

    I need to learn Spanish so I can move to Miami!!

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    Claire K. — 5/11/09 @ 7:34 am

    Definitely Italian! :-)

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    carmen — 5/11/09 @ 7:50 am

    I’d like to learn Mandarin!! I am Chinese and speak Cantonese, but my husband’s family speaks Shanghainese and Mandarin – so I can’t really communicate with them.

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    Heidi — 5/11/09 @ 7:54 am

    Sounds amazing – I’d love to re-learn Spanish. As it is, I know enough to be dangerous.

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    The Culinary Sherpas — 5/11/09 @ 7:55 am

    That video cracked me up! Total voice over!

    It’s funny you should post this. I have been wanting to take Spanish classes. I’m tired of not understanding anyone at my favorite restaurants!

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    Chandra — 5/11/09 @ 7:57 am

    HI!
    I just heard about your website on Chinesepod! I love Chinesepod, and now I love Steamy Kitchen, too! I would love to have a premium subscription to Chinesepod. I am a poor grad student and now I only have a basic subscription.

    Happy Cooking!
    Chandra

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    Dominique (de vous à moi...) — 5/11/09 @ 7:59 am

    I’d like to learn english! to speak with you and all my “blogger friends” in the world, and understand all they say without a bilingual dictionnary!

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    Kim — 5/11/09 @ 8:04 am

    I’d love to learn Korean and then surprise my mom with it!

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    Bob Atkins — 5/11/09 @ 8:08 am

    Would love the Italian or French…. need help with both.

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    Patrick — 5/11/09 @ 8:23 am

    I’d love to learn any of those. Especially Spanish – I remember just enough from high school that I feel like I could pick it up again without too much difficulty.

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    Audrey — 5/11/09 @ 8:28 am

    I’d LOVE to learn Italian, although I probably need to brush up on my very rusty French! Either one would be serve me well :)

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    Jason — 5/11/09 @ 8:30 am

    I like food… and Chinese… and Chinese food (sometimes). Is that enough to win? :)

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    KenCan — 5/11/09 @ 8:37 am

    I would love to learn Chinese. My goal is five years to be conversational and I am two years into that goal. I think it is very important to learn the charters instead of just the Pinyin when studing the Chinese language. I am very happy with the way Chinese Pod has added many features like the flash cards to reinforce this into my personal everyday study.
    Thank you Chinese Pod!!

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    Lee — 5/11/09 @ 8:38 am

    I would love to learn Chinese.

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    ~M — 5/11/09 @ 8:40 am

    I already speak Spanish, so I think I’d be able to benefit a lot from the French praxis. Thanks!

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    Lauren — 5/11/09 @ 8:41 am

    I am dying to learn Chinese! I have a brief stint a while back where I tried to teach myself from books/tapes, but it didn’t stick in my head- I couldn’t remember any of it. I’d love to try Praxis- I think that maybe I’d have more success with the more personalized systems!

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    Leigh — 5/11/09 @ 8:42 am

    Spanish! I live in a community with a large Hispanic population and be able to pick up where I left off after four years of high school Spanish would be invaluable!

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    natalie — 5/11/09 @ 8:49 am

    ohh i’ve never heard of this program! how cool! i’m fluent in vietnamese, studied french enough for 6 years to be able to get by, but i’ve always wanted to learn spanish too! my husband doesn’t know any other language but english, though i’ve been teaching him vietnamese phrases here and there and he impresses the heck out of the waiters when ordering his bowl of pho, but it’d be fun to learn a new language with him too!!

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    Jasmine — 5/11/09 @ 9:01 am

    I’m totally in a similar boat, wish I’d paid better attention in Chinese school when I was younger, and kept up with it as I got older. Now my wife wants to learn Chinese, so I think we might try and do it together.

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    Chloe — 5/11/09 @ 9:06 am

    I would definitely choose French. I’m already using ChinesePod, but French is another childhood language that I picked up, forgot some, and now want to become better at :)

    By the way, to practice written Chinese, visit http://www.skritter.com, a great site to help with handwriting.

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    wrigleygirl — 5/11/09 @ 9:06 am

    Français s’il vous plaît! I always have to resort to pretend French when in Paris. Would love to be authentic. Sincerely, Francophile Forever.•*¨•* ♥’☼.¸.*¸.•*¨*.¸☼¸♥

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    Krista — 5/11/09 @ 9:07 am

    I would love to learn Italian. Then again, with a Spanish surname, perhaps I should learn Spanish first?

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    Andrea — 5/11/09 @ 9:14 am

    Though I lived in Colombia for two years, that was 16 years ago and let’s just say my Spanish is not what it used to be. Sign me up!

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    skimmy — 5/11/09 @ 9:14 am

    parlez vous francais?

    because i wish i could!!
    and i wish i was smart enough to learn chinese.
    b/c that would be uber-cool…=)

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    kayenne — 5/11/09 @ 9:15 am

    Chinese! In honor of my heritage. I speak Fookien/Hokkien… but my Mandarin stinks.

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    Kelly — 5/11/09 @ 9:17 am

    I’ve always said I would love to learn Italian…for when I go to Italy on an eating vacation! Thanks for the cool contest!

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    Judy — 5/11/09 @ 9:17 am

    I would really like to learn to speak Spanish. I took 3 years in high school – many years ago! On our recent trip to Puerto Rico, I longed to be able to hold a conversation with locals. I live in a multicultural community and wish I could communicate effectively with others in Spanish.

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    Judy — 5/11/09 @ 9:20 am

    What an awesome giveaway! I would love to learn Italian and Chinese. Italian due to the family heritage and Chinese because it’s such a complex language and would be very interesting to learn!

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    ChinaMatt — 5/11/09 @ 9:21 am

    I still want to learn Chinese (I know I’ve been trying for almost four years now, but it’s difficult). I really do need to be able to communicate with my mother-in-law beyond the simple words and phrases that revolve around food and her wonderful cooking skills.

    Also wouldn’t mind re-learning Spanish. Wish I hadn’t given up on that one in high school and again in college.

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    jodie — 5/11/09 @ 9:22 am

    it’s my birthday, and i want to learn french! i’m going to pastry school soon and it would help me immensely

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    Miss Menu — 5/11/09 @ 9:25 am

    I would love to receive the Praxis language program for French. I spent years studying French in elementary and high schools…and even spent a semester in Paris during college. But, I still could not get over that hump of being able to understand and speak a little to actually being conversational. Thanks for the chance to fix that! :)

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    Scotty — 5/11/09 @ 9:28 am

    I took French in high school and although it was fun, I always regretted not learning spanish. It REALLY would have helped when I was waiting tables at a Mexican Restaurant! :D

    Now, living in Tampa, Spanish would greatly help my outreach efforts to the Latino communities.

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    postcollegecook — 5/11/09 @ 9:32 am

    Would love to learn Italian!

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    Veron — 5/11/09 @ 9:33 am

    French! I already took two years of spanish in college and I know my chinese needs brushing up….but…since the hubby has been talking about packing up and moving to France…

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    Jennifer — 5/11/09 @ 9:33 am

    Spanish! I’ve studied a handful of languages over the years, but avoided Spanish because everybody else was taking Spanish and I wanted to be different. Guess who needs translation assistance from her four-year-old niece when going to the amazing Mexican bakery?

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    Jennie — 5/11/09 @ 9:35 am

    I’d love to learn Spanish

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    gourmetcook — 5/11/09 @ 9:35 am

    I’d love to learn Spanish living in Tampa it would be great to know when I’m shopping in the local Spanish stores and farmer’s markets. I took Latin in school but Spanish would be really cool and helpful.

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    tiptup — 5/11/09 @ 9:35 am

    chinese!

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    cora partosa — 5/11/09 @ 9:38 am

    Italian! Love your blog!

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    Kristen J. — 5/11/09 @ 9:40 am

    I took Spanish in hs and college, but would love to actually be fluent in it. :)

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    sarah — 5/11/09 @ 9:42 am

    中文 …chinese.
    I have learned chinese at the university for about one year now. The praxis program seems to be great. It could help me to REALLY speak chinese.

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    Jacquie — 5/11/09 @ 9:42 am

    I speak Cantonese and understand Mandarin but I’d love to learn formal Mandarin!

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    Chris — 5/11/09 @ 9:44 am

    Would like to learn Spanish and visit Spain on a culinary tour…

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    Joanna Primus — 5/11/09 @ 9:45 am

    Spanish please!

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    Digigirl — 5/11/09 @ 9:47 am

    I would love to learn Spanish! Well, I would love to learn lots of languages, but Spanish is the one that would be most useful here in the Houston area. I had looked into getting a software package recently but couldn’t afford it, so this would be perfect!

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    Lisa — 5/11/09 @ 9:47 am

    I am going to spend a month in Quebec this summer, so would love to be able to speak French.

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    Iris — 5/11/09 @ 9:50 am

    Hi! Would love German. I came to this country when I was 3. I started with German as my first language, then completely lost it when my parents felt that I needed to know English. It is so sad. I feel language skills are important to being a ‘well rounded’ person.

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    Jason — 5/11/09 @ 9:50 am

    Looking for Mandarin — my wife’s Canto (I’m as white as can be) and I do business in China. Mandarin would be uber useful :) Thanks!

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    Heather — 5/11/09 @ 9:51 am

    Italian!! Oh man, this would be so cool. I didn’t absorb nearly enough during my semester in Rome.

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    A&N — 5/11/09 @ 9:53 am

    Its Spanish for me! I’ve always wanted to learn Spanish and I have a company back in India which offers Spanish classes, but I handle the English bit of it and would love to learn Spanish!

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    Jenny — 5/11/09 @ 9:55 am

    I am currently living in China (Shanghai), but have really basic Chinese skills. I have heard great things about Chinese Pod, but haven’t tried it. I would love to be able to order food as well as pick out fruits and veggies using language skills rather than pointing.

    I love your blog and love sharing it with my friends on Facebook!

    Xie Xie,
    Jenny

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    Erina — 5/11/09 @ 9:55 am

    As with you, I regret not finding importance in learning the native language of my mother (Japanese) until I was an adult. Learning would be a gift for her, really.

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    russ — 5/11/09 @ 10:00 am

    Chinese please. 清中文

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    Katharina — 5/11/09 @ 10:03 am

    I’ve been feeling bad about not refreshing my French for years now

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    Amanda — 5/11/09 @ 10:05 am

    I would love French! :D

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    Josh Kopelman — 5/11/09 @ 10:10 am

    I’d love to learn conversational Spanish as I live in San Diego and love visiting Mexico. I know speaking Spanish would be a huge help!

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    Matt — 5/11/09 @ 10:10 am

    I really need to learn Spanish. My wife and in-laws speak it fluently and I am often out of the loop especially in Spanish speaking Countries or areas of the States.

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    Karen — 5/11/09 @ 10:16 am

    As of right now, I’m a little tri-lingual. Regardless of what language I’m learning, I always go back to French. It was the first foreign language that I ever learned–studied it for 5 years in school and did a total-immersion program in HS and was essentially fluent when I came back. Unfortunately I shortly thereafter went to a college that did not offer it. I am thinking about going back and getting a minor or second degree in French. I have been dying to pick it up again! This is a great giveaway! Also, thanks for introducing the program!

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    Livia — 5/11/09 @ 10:21 am

    Chinese! I speak it, but my fiance doesn’t :-)

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    Lisa — 5/11/09 @ 10:24 am

    German because it is so harsh but elegant at the same time :)

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    Lynn — 5/11/09 @ 10:29 am

    Spanish. I learned it for college coursework and really want to try to remember it. It would be helpful to be able to speak to clients.

    I am delighted to find your blog. Thank you!

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    Yin — 5/11/09 @ 10:37 am

    Cantonese was my first language, but this whole American school system thing threw me off a bit. I had to learn English for Kindergarten (thank you PBS), and I felt the need to fit in. Over the years I have lost a lot of my vocabulary, especially recently after moving out of my parent’s house. Similar to you, I want to be able to speak the language and pass it on to my kids some day, even if it is just a little. Thanks for the awesome giveaway.

    Btw, I absolutely love your site! I have been a regular reader for the past year, and I’ve tried so many of your recipes. They’re easy to follow and so delicious. Keep up the great work!

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    Ann Matteson — 5/11/09 @ 10:41 am

    French please! I’ve been trying to master it since high school and haven’t been successful yet. I was in Paris last month and it was embarrassing how badly I slaughtered the language. Yikes!

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    Brandon Fox — 5/11/09 @ 10:43 am

    My husband’s entire family is Spanish and I need to learn that language! No more three hour dinners of incomprehensible conversation!

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    Kaytee — 5/11/09 @ 10:45 am

    Chineeeeeeese please.

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    Syd — 5/11/09 @ 10:47 am

    I want to learn Spanish, so I can shop at WalMart.

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    Melanie — 5/11/09 @ 10:48 am

    Spanish would be tremendously beneficial living in San Antonio,TX.

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    Kathy — 5/11/09 @ 10:57 am

    I would love to learn Chinese!

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    Bigmista — 5/11/09 @ 11:00 am

    I live in L.A.
    I need to learn Spanish.
    ‘Nuff said.

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    Melissa — 5/11/09 @ 11:04 am

    I’m going to Paris in January and you’d better believe I’m frantically trying to brush up on my rusty high school French – what perfect timing this would be to receive such a gift!!!

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    Anne — 5/11/09 @ 11:10 am

    Jaden, I too was born in HK and moved to the States (MN) and a small town of less than 100,000 when I was nine in the seventies. My mom is Chinese, father American. I have retained enough Cantonese to muddle my way through conversations with family and wish I kept up with the language. I’ve taught my two nieces some words and phrases and my godson (5) is learning Mandarin and want to be able to speak with him.
    I’m one of your Twitter follower and subscribe to your newsletter. I think your blog is great.
    PS – my mom lives in Crystal River and doesn’t watch American TV (has Chinese cable) otherwise I’d tell her to watch you on morning show.
    Thank you.
    Anne

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    silver. — 5/11/09 @ 11:12 am

    French! My French has sadly atrophied, and I’m going to need it.

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    Allyn — 5/11/09 @ 11:14 am

    I took French for years and have forgotten just about everything. I’d love to really learn it this time!

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    Matthias Krause — 5/11/09 @ 11:19 am

    I’d go for Chinese. Seems like a challenge.

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    Joe Kissell — 5/11/09 @ 11:21 am

    My French needs all the help it can get!

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    Christine — 5/11/09 @ 11:23 am

    I’d like to re-learn Italian. All those years of schooling WASTED due to inactivity. :-)

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    Kelly Brzozowski — 5/11/09 @ 11:27 am

    I’d love to learn Spanish!

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    Don — 5/11/09 @ 11:29 am

    Well I doubt they’d teach our Chinese dialect, I’ll go with Spanish :)

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    terri — 5/11/09 @ 11:31 am

    oooh, languages–so hard to choose, but i think french would be the most practical for me…

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    PatriciaW — 5/11/09 @ 11:32 am

    Spanish, my father’s language. Because they wanted us to fit in, at a time when bilingual was so not cool, we didn’t learn it beyond the lessons we took in school. I’d love to become conversational.

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    Claire — 5/11/09 @ 11:32 am

    I would love to learn french. I visited paris & france a few times in the last year and though i do try, my lack of french is just embarrassing

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    Steve — 5/11/09 @ 11:32 am

    I would love to be able to get more in-depth with my Spanish. I know some basic phrases and words, but I want to be able to converse. This would help me out on upcoming mission trips to Honduras

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    Heather — 5/11/09 @ 11:33 am

    I’d love to relearn Spanish. I took it in college, but I’m afraid I’ve forgotten everything! Thanks for doing this giveaway!

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    jake — 5/11/09 @ 11:38 am

    I would love to learn any of the 4 languages besides English that are taught, whether it’s to maintain my mandarin, improve my Italian or Spanish, or pick up from scratch a new language altogether with French.

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    Diana — 5/11/09 @ 11:44 am

    Oooh definitely French! My husband and I love Africa and hope to live there one day to counsel teenagers who are victims of war and other tragedies that are so common there. French is one of the most common languages and although we each had a year in high schools, we have a lot more to learn to be able to communicate easily.

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    susan — 5/11/09 @ 11:45 am

    Would love to learn Spanish, so cool

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    Leisureguy — 5/11/09 @ 11:46 am

    If you’re going to learn a language as an adult, I HIGHLY recommend the book Polyglot: How I Learn Languages, by Kató Lomb. It’s a fantastic help from someone who learned 6 languages fluently as an adult (after college). Read about it here.. The book is also available via Amazon.com.

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    manoj — 5/11/09 @ 11:46 am

    chinese would help

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    Jennifer — 5/11/09 @ 11:47 am

    ooh, I’d love to start learning some Chinese… everyone says that’s the language of the future!

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    Judy Motzkin — 5/11/09 @ 11:49 am

    Helplessly hoping the wheel of fortune blesses me with a Chinesepod subscription! I am a longtime student of Chinese, a daunting effort and labor of love in interest in the ongoing power of language to build friendship and peace between peoples.
    Meanwhile, food has that same effect and I will enjoy your newsletter.
    Judy

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    Steph — 5/11/09 @ 11:54 am

    I also am Chinese and wish so much I knew more than just food words…it’s one of my lifetime goals to learn more….

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    emily — 5/11/09 @ 11:56 am

    Spanish, for sure!

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    Shelly — 5/11/09 @ 11:58 am

    I took a semester of German in college, and I’d love to study it further.

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    Asianmommy — 5/11/09 @ 12:00 pm

    This is awesome! I would love to learn Mandarin. My parents spoke Taiwanese at home.

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    marta — 5/11/09 @ 12:06 pm

    Francais s’il vous plait. French, please. I need to start studying again. I’ve been trying to learn and need a new strategy. This sounds perfect.

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    JP — 5/11/09 @ 12:09 pm

    I would love to learn Chinese.

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    PurpleDragonFly — 5/11/09 @ 12:15 pm

    I want to learn Spanish!

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    JT — 5/11/09 @ 12:15 pm

    Spanish! I know my few key sentences, and can get the gist of a conversation, but to be fluent would be amazing!

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    Lauren — 5/11/09 @ 12:16 pm

    I’d like to improve my Chinese

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    Kwan — 5/11/09 @ 12:18 pm

    I’m thinking of trying to move to Singapore so (Mandarin) Chinese would be nice to know although I guess it’s not strictly required since there are 4 nationally recognized official languages and English is one of them.

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    Mrs. Pear — 5/11/09 @ 12:18 pm

    My French needs serious help! I have forgotten all but the basics, and now I have girls to teach! We are originally from Canada so I would love it if our children could speak all three official languages…english, french, and weird canadian slang.

    I would love to learn spanish and italian. Spanish because we live in Southern California, and Italian because it just sounds so great and I love the food. :-)

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    Kate — 5/11/09 @ 12:24 pm

    Mandarin would be great to re-learn. I started it my sophomore year of college, but had to drop it after my third semester because my major workload was getting too heavy. 很 不幸!

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    Gina — 5/11/09 @ 12:33 pm

    I’ve always wanted to learn italian.

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    janice — 5/11/09 @ 12:34 pm

    My spanish could use some touching up and the recipe looks great!

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    Julianna — 5/11/09 @ 12:40 pm

    I’d love to learn more Mandarin before visiting my relatives this fall.

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    Lauren — 5/11/09 @ 12:40 pm

    While I’d love to know any of the languages listed, I think I have the best hopes of actually learning French. So, French is my choice!

    Merci.

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    j.cro — 5/11/09 @ 12:42 pm

    Wow!! I was just speaking to my husband last night about us getting Rosetta Stone for Spanish. How auspicious.

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    Shannon — 5/11/09 @ 12:43 pm

    I took a short Italian class once, and would love to learn more.

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    Suzanne — 5/11/09 @ 12:44 pm

    Since I’m about to move to South Florida, what is left of my High School Spanish class is probably not enough. I could use to really learn Spanish.

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    Bill — 5/11/09 @ 12:46 pm

    中文 ^_^

    I’m interested in learning Mandarin Chinese. Authentic Chinese food is the -best- in the world. Looking forward to learning some recipes from the steamykitchen.

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    RB — 5/11/09 @ 12:47 pm

    Around here, Spanish is the most practical, so I would pick that.

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    Hélène — 5/11/09 @ 12:50 pm

    My son is having a hard time since we moved here because he is French and they tease him a lot. Some kids even told him that they will not hang out with him because of that. Some days he does not want to go to school. So I know how you felt.

    But on the other side he speaks French, English and his learning Spanish. Most of these kids only know English and they are not open to any culture. They don’t want to learn French. We only speak French in the house. I want my kids to preserve their mother tongue.

    I would love to learn Spanish. My three kids learned it at school.

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    Steve-Anna — 5/11/09 @ 1:01 pm

    Hi Jaden!! I would soooooo love to learn French after years of failed attempts. I’m trying now with Rocket French lessons on my iPod, but I want to try anything I can!

    Fingers crossed~!
    SAS

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    Magnus — 5/11/09 @ 1:04 pm

    I definitively like to learn Mandarin Chinese.
    Once and for all.
    One Language, Four tones!

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    gail — 5/11/09 @ 1:08 pm

    Have been studying French with books and tapes for years but this system looks like it could help me with the words I really want to know and the accent, which is the most challenging for me!

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    gaylei — 5/11/09 @ 1:13 pm

    french please! i took it in hs and forgot just about everything!

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    graham — 5/11/09 @ 1:15 pm

    I am already working on learning Chinese and ChinesePod is a big part of my learning. I have dipped into the French, Spanish and Italian Pods a bit and they are all good. I just wish I had more time…

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    Elis — 5/11/09 @ 1:17 pm

    Ooooh, I want to learn them all! Chinese or French, Chinese or French…I’ve been trying to make my way through learning French via podcast so I guess I should go with Chinese :) .

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    Maggie — 5/11/09 @ 1:27 pm

    Thanks for the give away! I feel the same way about not knowing how to speak Cantonese that well either. Mine is slowly slipping away. I’d love to learn mandarin too.

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    JL — 5/11/09 @ 1:32 pm

    Chinese! It needs some serious tune-up! :)

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    SpecialEd — 5/11/09 @ 1:34 pm

    Hi again Jaden, Congrats on all the success. I would love to learn to speak Spanish!

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    Velda — 5/11/09 @ 1:40 pm

    I would love to learn Chinese.

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    ling — 5/11/09 @ 1:42 pm

    coma esta? I need to learn more than “How are you?” in Spanish!!
    Cheerios

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    Alex — 5/11/09 @ 1:49 pm

    I’ve lost any French that I learnt as a child and in gradeschool. I’d love to relearn it!

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    Namia — 5/11/09 @ 1:51 pm

    I would love to learn Spanish! It would be especially helpful since I live in sunny OC!

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    Irene — 5/11/09 @ 1:54 pm

    I’m like you: I’d like to touch up on the Mandarin Chinese my parents passed on to me, as well teach my husband so that our kids can be bilingual.

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    hankela — 5/11/09 @ 2:12 pm

    would love to learn chinese, but I think I need to be realistic. I’d welcome the opportunity to brush up on my French!

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    Suzanne Hickman — 5/11/09 @ 2:27 pm

    Been dallying with Spanish for years. Maybe this would be the key to becoming fluent! And then finding a job with my added language skills!

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    Rivka — 5/11/09 @ 2:31 pm

    Would love to learn French — what an awesome giveaway!

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    Dirtykitchensecrets — 5/11/09 @ 2:53 pm

    I would love to learn spanish! I’ve been saying it for years and have bought a ton of books and cd’s and nothing has really helped me. I’ve just found them all pointless!

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    jennywenny — 5/11/09 @ 2:57 pm

    I would really love to learn spanish. I have mexican people in some of my classes and I’m so close to the border that I would love to be able to communicate more easily.

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    Sarah — 5/11/09 @ 3:01 pm

    I am *trying* to learn Chinese because my family is moving there in three months! I can use all the help I can get!

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    finsbigfan — 5/11/09 @ 3:10 pm

    Spanish as my husband is Cuban. I understand alot but cannot speak it.

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    Sunshine — 5/11/09 @ 3:26 pm

    Thanks for this opportunity — Spanish would be a big help to me in my public library career!

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    Jennifer — 5/11/09 @ 3:29 pm

    Jaden,

    I can totally relate to your experience. Even though I was born here in the US, my parents always spoke to us in Chinese and we would always respond to them in English. It wasn’t until we moved closer to my grandparents, who only spoke Cantonese, did my siblings and I really begin to start speaking in chinese. Like you I can understand colloquial Cantonese and can still speak some. But now that I have a child, I want to teach him Cantonese so that he can learn more about his heritage. I live in the midwest and the chinese community is minute compared to where I grew up (NYC). So, every opportunity I get when I hear cantonese (whether it be in movies or at the asian stores), I want to speak it too (but I usually don’t because I clam up every time I don’t know what the right word is to explain my thoughts or get embarrassed if I pronounce it incorrectly and say a cuss word instead). Unfortunately, my husband is Laotian and Thai. So we’ve had the conflict of teaching my son chinese or thai or lao. He knows a few words in each language but it would be wonderful if he can speak them all. I hope that I have a chance to win this wonderful language program so I can get my son started on the right foot! Chinese would be the ideal language so I can learn along with my son!

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    John — 5/11/09 @ 3:34 pm

    french s’il vous plait

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    cdelphine — 5/11/09 @ 3:36 pm

    I would love this to learn spanish. I’ve taken French for the last 7 years but always feel like I should learn Spanish as well.

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    Tina — 5/11/09 @ 3:36 pm

    I would love to learn Spanish. Or should I say re-learn Spanish. I started taking Spanish in junior high, straight through high school, but aside from a few simple phrases, and the ability muddle through very simple reading, I’ve pretty well forgotten everything I learned.

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    Grace — 5/11/09 @ 3:41 pm

    I’d like to learn Spanish

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    Madeleine — 5/11/09 @ 3:43 pm

    Italian! My boyfriend’s dad is Italian and I want to be able to chat with him in Italian instead of English!! Thanks.

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    Celia — 5/11/09 @ 4:00 pm

    I’d love to learn Chinese! This program looks wonderful, thank you.

    Celia

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    Betty — 5/11/09 @ 4:23 pm

    Jaden,

    We’re so similar in that I too was born in Hong Kong but moved to Canada when I was 8. I can speak Cantonese, but can’t read or write. My two boys can say “Good Morning” and “Have you eaten yet?” in cantonese to their grandmother and that’s about it.

    We live in Mexico now, and I’m trying to learn my third language. Its a struggle, especially for a forty-something brain. However, the Mexicans are so nice even when I butcher their beautiful language.

    I can’t decide if I would like to improve my chinese, which I rarely use or my spanish which I’m trying to use. Hmm?

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    Marc — 5/11/09 @ 4:35 pm

    I would like to learn Chinese. I’ve tried before, and it is quite difficult for me to learn on my own. I have several family friends who speak Chinese and not much English, and it would be nice to try to converse with them in their own tongue.

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    Joanne — 5/11/09 @ 4:53 pm

    I wish my Cantonese skills were stronger too. For a while they were getting better by working with others who spoke Cantonese. But in the last 3 years my skills have dropped again, and now my brain has to work double time to translate back and forth. Ever spend a day at a Cantonese family gathering? At the end of the day you have a headache, but you do jog some of those language cells into use.

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    Sarah — 5/11/09 @ 4:57 pm

    I would Love to learn chinese. My husband and his family are chinese and I am not. puts me at quite the disadvantage for many family gatherings.

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    Lai — 5/11/09 @ 5:14 pm

    I have nightmares about year in college (think it was one year but felt like two) I spent learning Mandarin and now can’t even recognize any of the characters from lack of use. I’d like to pick up Spanish.

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    Rachael Becker — 5/11/09 @ 5:18 pm

    I am trying to learn some Italian for my upcoming trip to Italy, and I would love to be able to use this instead of my current phrase book. Can we say AMAZING FOOD?!!! I am sooooo excited!

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    Dan — 5/11/09 @ 5:22 pm

    I never really learned French to the level I’d always wanted to, so maybe it’s about time to go back and pick it up!

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    lili - pikelet & pie — 5/11/09 @ 5:25 pm

    Oh, I have been trying to learn Mandarin for a while now, but have had to pause due to a restructuring at my school which saw course prices jump 40% (!???!!!). So instead I am saving every spare cent to go to China and study, and am studying along in my spare time, so winning this would really help me.
    :)

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    Michelle — 5/11/09 @ 5:25 pm

    Spanish! This year I had an ESL student in my class and I wished I knew more Spanish so we could communicate better. He’s learned a lot of English words, but it’s still a struggle.

    I love your blog!

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    Kristine Bets — 5/11/09 @ 5:25 pm

    I would love to learn Spanish or Mandarin.

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    Nancy — 5/11/09 @ 5:29 pm

    What a great language website–thanks for sharing it. I would love to win the language progam giveaway for Chinese. My husband is traveling to China this summer and it would be great to give him a running start on the language.

    And thanks for your website too–I made your pot sticker recipe last week and it was a big hit!

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    Lynn — 5/11/09 @ 5:39 pm

    Tough call – it would either be French or Italian.

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    naomi — 5/11/09 @ 5:45 pm

    Mandarin Chinese. So I can get better deals when shopping in Beijing!

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    winne — 5/11/09 @ 5:56 pm

    As someone who is Chinese but not speak proper Mandarin chinese, I would have said Chinese without hesitation. But now that I’m planning a wedding in Spain, I’m aiming towards Spanish. I mean – what better way to negotiate then learn the language and they’ll never expect it from this asian girl no less. =)

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    Christi Ng — 5/11/09 @ 6:11 pm

    I would like to better my Cantonese. After spending 2 weeks in Hong Kong during Chinese New Year this year, I realized that although I understand conversational Cantonese, I couldn’t understand the news in Cantonese whatsoever! I could definitely use the help.

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    Jen — 5/11/09 @ 6:12 pm

    I would love to learn Korean – grew up in the States & only know how to say “hello” in two ways.

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    Rina — 5/11/09 @ 6:13 pm

    A new language – and to learn it this way…. My spanish is pretty good, french passable. Maybe something completely different.. chinese, or thai.

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    Shannon — 5/11/09 @ 6:19 pm

    Would love to improve my Mandarin!

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    giabella designs — 5/11/09 @ 6:33 pm

    Since Thai isn’t one that is offered, the next best thing would be Italian since that is what Michael is! Loved the video!

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    Carol — 5/11/09 @ 6:33 pm

    I would love to learn French, Italian or Chinese. Love the blog!

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    kribss — 5/11/09 @ 6:36 pm

    i’m korean but chinese lessons are close enough?!

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    Christina — 5/11/09 @ 6:37 pm

    Mandarin. For no reason other than I’ve always wanted to learn.

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    Sally — 5/11/09 @ 6:57 pm

    Mandarin. I lived in Taiwan for six years but didn’t learn as much as I wanted and am getting rusty on what I did learn. I miss speaking Chinese!

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    Morgan — 5/11/09 @ 6:58 pm

    I would love to be able to speak Cantonese, I’ve tried several programs but to no avail. My husband is also from Hong Kong and I really don’t have a relationship with his family because I do not speak Cantonese. Learning would help so much…

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    Lex — 5/11/09 @ 7:05 pm

    I would LOVE to learn French. I think it’s such a beautiful language.

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    Nicole — 5/11/09 @ 7:18 pm

    I’m in the same situation as you are, and finding time to take language lessons has been a struggle. I’d love to take PRAXIS to learn Chinese beyond talking about food (although talking about food with my parents is always nice :) )

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    Eva — 5/11/09 @ 7:28 pm

    I guess I am like you and a few other commenters. I moved to the US when I was 3 though my first language was Mandarin, not Cantonese. I think I would go Italian of French because I would love to go to one of those countries and eat constantly for a week!

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    Chris — 5/11/09 @ 7:40 pm

    I want to speak chinese!

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    Chris — 5/11/09 @ 7:42 pm

    Chinese please!

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    Tiffany — 5/11/09 @ 9:25 pm

    I would love to learn Chinese! Then I won’t have the “uh-duh, what?” look when ordering buns at Chinatown. (The lady doesn’t speak English. I don’t speak Chinese. Hand waving crosses all barriers, luckily)

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    Pratiwi — 5/11/09 @ 9:32 pm

    I would really love to get free chinese lessons. My ancestors are from China and I will go back to China someday (still saving up)!!!!
    Thank you…^^

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    Leslie — 5/11/09 @ 9:44 pm

    I am the daughter of Chinese immigrants and now that I’ve grown up a little, I wished I’d paid more attention in Chinese school.

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    Alexis — 5/11/09 @ 9:57 pm

    I’d love to learn Chinese!

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    Nags — 5/11/09 @ 10:21 pm

    FRENCH :D

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    Elisabeth — 5/11/09 @ 10:40 pm

    Oh, WOW! One hundred percent French, please!

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    Shanna — 5/11/09 @ 10:44 pm

    I would love to learn French so I can speak to my grandparents!

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    Joel — 5/11/09 @ 10:46 pm

    I’ve taken French, Spanish, and Japanese. Now I’d like to actually learn one! Probably French…

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    GCS — 5/11/09 @ 10:46 pm

    How about Hungarian? The kids can’t really speak with their grandparents and I could use some help! Out of necessity I’m able to understand quite a bit, for all those times that my husband talks about me and I need to know what is going on!! It would be nice to be able to speak more though.

    We are going to Hungary this summer, do you think I’ll pick it up by then? LOL.

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    Quynh — 5/11/09 @ 10:46 pm

    I would loveee to learn Spanish!!

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    Quynh — 5/11/09 @ 10:47 pm

    oh.. and I’m an email subscriber :)
    on second thought.. I want to learn Chinese too :D

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    Shirley — 5/11/09 @ 10:48 pm

    I’m a CBC (Canadian born Chinese) and really need to improve my chinese so I can chat with my granny!

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    Judy — 5/11/09 @ 10:48 pm

    Spanish, definitely Spanish!

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    Jeanne — 5/11/09 @ 10:48 pm

    I love Chinese Pod’s podcasts! And would love love love love winning this FABULOUS giveaway! My 2 daughters are China born, so we’ve dabbled a bit, simple words or phrases…but this would be AWESOME!! TY!

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    Lisa — 5/11/09 @ 10:49 pm

    I’d love to learn another language and have been doing some research on Rosetta Stone software.. but hell, I’d be open to anything if it worked and got my frazzled brain to understand a 2nd language. :)

    I’m also an email subscriber!!

    And this will be my eleventy billionth comment on your blog that quite possibly won’t go through.. none have so far. Can’t figger out what the hell I’m doing wrong. :P

    xoxo

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    Jennifer — 5/11/09 @ 10:49 pm

    I would love to learn ITALIANO!!!!

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    rachel — 5/11/09 @ 10:49 pm

    I’d like to (re)learn French for our trip to Belgium this year.

    And love pork ribs!Yum.

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    Kristen — 5/11/09 @ 10:49 pm

    The romantic side of me says I want to learn Italian or French and the practical side of me says re-learn Spanish or learn Chinese.

    Oh and I’m an email subscriber!

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    Julie — 5/11/09 @ 10:50 pm

    I need to learn mandarin :)

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    Jennifer — 5/11/09 @ 10:50 pm

    I am also an email subscriber. & definitely need to try that ribs recipe looks fab

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    GCS — 5/11/09 @ 10:50 pm

    After reading your email Jaden (I’m an EMAIL SUBSCRIBER)- I noticed that Hungarian is discrimated against (as usual) you don’t see Hungarian signs much in airports unless you are in Hungary…I guess I might have to go for Spanish, might come in handy when my son takes Spanish in High School.

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    Tracy Chastain — 5/11/09 @ 10:50 pm

    WOW – Awesome! I think this is great. :) i’d say French! (and i’m an email subscriber, too) Thanks!!!

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    Shirley — 5/11/09 @ 10:51 pm

    oh…I’m an email subscriber too!

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    Emily — 5/11/09 @ 10:52 pm

    I would love to learn Italian to go along with my recent gaining of Italian citizenship

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    Jeanne — 5/11/09 @ 10:52 pm

    And here’s my second entry since I’m a subscriber! Thanks for THAT! Sweet!
    Whats with having people not collecting their winnings? I just don’t get it! Your giveways are so generous……

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    GCS — 5/11/09 @ 10:52 pm

    discrimated=discriminated

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    Dollie Crabtree — 5/11/09 @ 10:52 pm

    I would love to learn Chinese (I am an email subscriber) and my kids have always wanted to learn it too :)

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    Mary — 5/11/09 @ 10:53 pm

    Spanish please! (email subscriber)

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    Jay — 5/11/09 @ 10:55 pm

    Spanish!

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    Lee — 5/11/09 @ 11:00 pm

    Living in Texas, I need to know Spanish!

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    Gigi — 5/11/09 @ 11:01 pm

    I’ve been thinking I really must relearn some of my lost languages.

    French please!

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    Willa — 5/11/09 @ 11:03 pm

    Umm how about Chinese and French?!?

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    Willa — 5/11/09 @ 11:03 pm

    Reposting again! PS I am an email subscriber! yay

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    Dee Tuggle — 5/11/09 @ 11:05 pm

    This looks like a great prize. I’ve always wanted to learn Italian and maybe this would be my chance.

    I’m already a subscriber.

    Thanks,

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    Steph — 5/11/09 @ 11:07 pm

    Wow, what a great giveaway! Thanks for the opportunity to learn yet another language. Having just come back from a year in South America where I learned some Spanish, I sure understand the benefits of learning new languages. I soooooo want to learn to speak Italian and am hoping my recent voyage through Spanish will make it that much easier. Again, thanks and know that I will most definitely claim my prize whould I win!

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    James Dasher — 5/11/09 @ 11:08 pm

    That’s a tough one, Mandarin, French, or Spanish most likely.

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    James Dasher — 5/11/09 @ 11:09 pm

    Sorry for the double post, seems I’m supposed to note that I am a email subscriber as well…

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    Pepper — 5/11/09 @ 11:10 pm

    French or Italian please.

    ….while I’m munching on some yummy ribs….but it’s not nice speaking with one’s mouth full is it. : )

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    Alexandria — 5/11/09 @ 11:10 pm

    I would love to learn spanish. I took 3 years of it in high school, but can only remember the basic introductions!

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    Alexandria — 5/11/09 @ 11:11 pm

    I’m also an email subscriber :)

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    Nick — 5/11/09 @ 11:13 pm

    I live in southern california, so i think it would be great to learn spanish!

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    Patty — 5/11/09 @ 11:14 pm

    I’d love to learn Spanish – and I’m an email subscriber as well as having your RSS feed!

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    Jasmine — 5/11/09 @ 11:14 pm

    What, no German? Darn, I guess it will have to be Spanish then. Thank you, J!

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    Dave — 5/11/09 @ 11:15 pm

    While I’d love to learn Chinese, I need to learn French for a trip to France next year. This would be awesome, Jaden, thank you so much!

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    Anna — 5/11/09 @ 11:19 pm

    Chinese, please! Mandarin would be so wonderful for me to be able to talk to my relatives. Please, do consider me! Thank you for this opportunity!

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    Lys — 5/11/09 @ 11:20 pm

    I have been obsessing over going to Italy lately. Granted I’m Irish and my family is wondering why I would rather go to Italy than the green isles of Ireland. One of the things that occured to me is “Lys, you need to speak Italian FIRST”. So, Jaden, this contest couldn’t have come at a better time!! Thanks for hosting it.

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    Christina — 5/11/09 @ 11:24 pm

    I’d love to learn more Mandarin!

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    Carol — 5/11/09 @ 11:30 pm

    My Mandarin is just so-so. Can’t remember more than a few words of high school French. So my choice is Italian!

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    Carol — 5/11/09 @ 11:31 pm

    And I’m an email subscriber!!

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    Shirley — 5/11/09 @ 11:34 pm

    I’d pick Chinese! I used to take classes in college but haven’t spoken the language for so long that now I’m rusty. We’re planning a trip to China next year, so I definitely should brush up. Spanish would also be a good pick, as I could use that at work. But that’s not as fun, seeing as to how its work-related. Ok, I’ll stick with Chinese. :)

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    Shirley — 5/11/09 @ 11:34 pm

    Oh and I’m an email subscriber too! Forgot to mention that.

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    Pepper — 5/11/09 @ 11:36 pm

    Would love a chance at Chinese for another year, thanks.

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    Stpehanie Downie — 5/11/09 @ 11:41 pm

    Spanish, please! We recently moved to the Southwest and now my little girl (who takes Spanish classes in her elementary school) makes fun of my lousy accent.

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    sharon — 5/11/09 @ 11:45 pm

    I studied spanish for 7 years but it all went out the door (and out of my head) when I stopped practicing!

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    Sweetdivine — 5/11/09 @ 11:54 pm

    Spanish or Chinese would be fun :D

    BTW I tried out that book by rhulman and its good so far. Nice read. Thanks for writing about him

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    rj — 5/11/09 @ 11:58 pm

    I would love to learn japanese. I hope I get this chance.
    Renee

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    Danielle — 5/12/09 @ 12:04 am

    I would use it for either Chinese or Spanish – probably Chinese. I have used Praxis’s podcasts before and they were very good, particularly the Chinese ones, so I’d like to continue without paying the monthly fee. :)

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    scrapper al — 5/12/09 @ 12:08 am

    Ohhhh, maybe Praxis would work better than all those classes I took in high school and college. Thanks for the giveaway and yes, I’m an e-mail subscriber.

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    Michelle — 5/12/09 @ 12:14 am

    Oooh! Languages! I’d love to learn Chinese! It’s a language that I’ve always wanted to learn, but I’ve never really had the time to study it.
    Btw, I love your blog and your newsletter. Keep blogging those recipes! :)

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    Kirsten — 5/12/09 @ 12:16 am

    I would like to learn Spanish..I am an email subscriber as well!

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    Theresa — 5/12/09 @ 12:23 am

    Spanish!

    (and I am an email subscriber)

    :)

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    Lydia — 5/12/09 @ 12:26 am

    Cantonese please! I am also an e-mail subscriber. Thanks.

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    Cris — 5/12/09 @ 12:27 am

    I would love to learn French – the idea of being able to make a reservation or negotiate a price in the market makes me giddy.

    Email subscriber!

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    tien — 5/12/09 @ 12:42 am

    I would love to learn mandarin

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    Brandi — 5/12/09 @ 12:43 am

    Since I need to know another language for my doctoral program and my Spanish is currently not up to where it needs to be, Spanish. What a great contest!

    Oh, and I know how you feel about giving up a language. Although I never really knew Spanish, my dad speaks it and tried to teach me when I was growing up, but I always resisted. :(

    Also, I’m an e-mail subscriber. :)

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    Connie — 5/12/09 @ 1:07 am

    Awesome food blog! I really like your food [porn] shots… ehhehe :-)

    I’d love to learn French. Thank so much for giving us a chance to win. Good Luck everyone. I, too, am an email subscriber.

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    Magnus — 5/12/09 @ 1:18 am

    Do I want to learn Spanish?
    I’d like another wish!

    Do I want to learn Italian?
    That would cost about a million.

    Do I want to study French?
    Sniff! Oh what is that stench?

    Do I want to learn English?
    I only have one more wish…

    Do I want to study Chinese?
    Yes, please!

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    RB — 5/12/09 @ 1:21 am

    Chinese! and I’m an email subscriber. Love the recipes and great blog overall!

    Thanks!

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    Howard — 5/12/09 @ 1:21 am

    I would like to learn Mandarin Chinese. I work at Stanford’s School of Medicine … my world is filled with people from around the globe. I find many of the Chinese doctors, scientists, grad students, and their families are delighted when they teach me one word or phrase when we are talking. We have gone as groups to all sorts of Chinese restaurants in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

    I hope to travel to China — on a food safari — in 2010.

    I have prepared several of your recipes and each has been delicious.

    Thank you for your gift of sharing both your knowledge and your enthusiasm. I am an e-mail subscriber and I have informed dozens of friends about your site.

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    Christine — 5/12/09 @ 1:27 am

    I was born here but my parents always spoke Chinese to me so now I’m fluent in Mandarin. Lucky me! Now I would like to add Spanish to the list! :-)

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    Marcia Allison — 5/12/09 @ 1:36 am

    I would love to study Spanish so I can converse with my grandson. He is Mexican-American and bilingual. He gets a good laugh when I try to talk to him in espanol!

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    Marcia Allison — 5/12/09 @ 1:36 am

    I am an email subscriber; this is my second entry. Would love to learn Spanish so I can talk with my grandson.

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    Nicole — 5/12/09 @ 2:11 am

    Hi! Thanks for this awesome opportunity I’ve been wanting to work on my Italian – knowing food words only gets you so fat far.

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    Nicole — 5/12/09 @ 2:11 am

    And I’m also an e-mail subscriber!

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    Lana — 5/12/09 @ 2:20 am

    Hello!
    I would like to learn Chinese! I am already an email subscriber.
    Thank you for this opportunity!

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    gmah — 5/12/09 @ 2:25 am

    I’m an e-mail subscriber and would like to learn Chinese.

    My husband and I moved to Shanghai last year, for a job opportunity and although we have picked up some phrases we definitely need to learn more.

    I have Fuschia Dunlops cookbook and have loved each recipe I have tried. Since living in Shanghai I have been exploring the use of Black Vinegar and really like the extra dimension it adds to a dish.

    Thank you for the newsletter and for being so generous with sharing your recipes.

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    Carla Paola — 5/12/09 @ 2:32 am

    I would love to learn Chinese! I used to live in an Italian neighborhood adjacent to several blocks of Chinese markets and restaurants. I would buy the best dim sum for 25 cents a piece. Would have loved to know Chinese back then. Thanks for the chance to win.

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    Joanne — 5/12/09 @ 2:37 am

    My son studied abroad in France, fell in love with a French girl, married her and now resides there. They have a daughter who is fluent in English but I would love to be able to converse in French.

    I am an e-mail subscriber.

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    Nathan — 5/12/09 @ 2:41 am

    dude. i would really love to master chinese.

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    AmyJo Smith — 5/12/09 @ 2:51 am

    Oh, I would SO LOVE to teach my kids some FRENCH – and brush up on mine!! It’s a good thing I’m a newsletter subscriber, or I’d have missed entering this one :)

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    Philip — 5/12/09 @ 3:01 am

    Chinese at upper intermediate level :)
    Thank you so much!

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    rebecca ball — 5/12/09 @ 3:43 am

    I would like to learn more Spanish. Thank you!

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    rebecca ball — 5/12/09 @ 3:43 am

    I am also an e-mail subscriber, and would really love to learn Chinese as well.

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    rita — 5/12/09 @ 4:24 am

    that video is hilarious! learn chinese, why not? i am famous for mixing english, german and italian in one sentence already, anyway. why not add a language more? i love learning languages! plus, the fact that one of my friends is mexican-chinese, i can talk to her in chinese, as well.

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    Alicia Kwant — 5/12/09 @ 4:31 am

    My children and I would love to learn Chinese! We’re newsletter subscribers :)

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    Joanna — 5/12/09 @ 4:54 am

    I’d like to have another shot at learning Chinese. College Chinese classes just didn’t work for me

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    Deb B — 5/12/09 @ 5:53 am

    I think I would choose Chinese, thanks for hosting great giveaway

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    Deb B — 5/12/09 @ 5:59 am

    I am email subscriber too, thanks again

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    Wendy — 5/12/09 @ 6:01 am

    Oooh you’re originally from HK! That’s cool, because I am too :)

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    Billy — 5/12/09 @ 6:05 am

    Great prize! Don’t know, either Spanish or Chinese, please.

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    Jess Alcarpe — 5/12/09 @ 6:17 am

    Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese or English?

    I love learning languages. Haha, yes… sorry. Had to say that.
    Hmm.. I know Spanish would ‘widen my career opportunities’ but that’d be the suckiest reason ever.
    I already know Cantonese, and it’s *just* similar enough to Mandarin for me to catch the tiniest snippets. Nobody will care if I mistranslate anyway.

    Definitely French or Italian. They both sound so SEXY. Italian is more.. homey; French is by far the sexiest and most /sophisticated/.
    I’d love to learn FRENCH!

    And as for English; pfft. I read enough books.

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    Julie — 5/12/09 @ 6:32 am

    Italian…. then I would live for awhile in Italy and learn to cook real italian!!!

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    Berion — 5/12/09 @ 6:48 am

    Just realized I can comment again after becoming an email-subscriber, so here I go:
    I am an email-subscriber now and I really want that 12-month premium subscription on chinesepod! Hehe. :-)
    Thanks.

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    Angel — 5/12/09 @ 6:49 am

    I would love to learn french. I never was too good at it in high school and would love to give it another chance! I’m an email subscriber too!

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    Amy — 5/12/09 @ 7:02 am

    I’d love to learn French. I have tried before but kind of fallen apart. But I enjoy spending time in France so it would be nice to get by with more than just a few simple words and phrases!

    Plus, I am an email subscriber!

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    Jandi — 5/12/09 @ 7:08 am

    Ciao, bella…mi piace tutti cosi italiane! So, Italian, per favore.
    (I’m an email AND RSS subscriber.)

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    Diana — 5/12/09 @ 7:11 am

    Great prize, Jaden! (I subscribe by email too.) :)

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    Lynnette — 5/12/09 @ 7:18 am

    I’ve always wanted to learn Italian so someday when I go to Tuscany and I may never return, lol! :o )

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    Ruby — 5/12/09 @ 7:19 am

    French! I want to learn French!

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    Ruby — 5/12/09 @ 7:19 am

    French! (Email subscriber)

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    Susan D. — 5/12/09 @ 7:24 am

    I want to learn Italian, please let me win!

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    Laurie Harrison — 5/12/09 @ 7:24 am

    My daughter is from China so we’d like to learn Chinese! I’m an email subscriber.

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    Anita — 5/12/09 @ 7:25 am

    Hi I’m actually trying to win this for my boyfriend who is caucasian I’m Chinese-America. Poor soul has been trying to learn Canto for me but the tones are confusing him. I think this would be great for him! The boy can understand other languages without tones perfectly but Chinese is lost on him. Thanks Jaden!

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    Claire K. — 5/12/09 @ 7:27 am

    I’d love to learn Italian! (And I’m an email subscriber.)

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    Junith R. — 5/12/09 @ 7:33 am

    Jaden,
    How much cooler can you be? After being out of school a quarter of a century, I start back in August…and my first class is FRENCH!!!! With no previous instructions. Yikes. You’re always there when I need you. It’s like you know what I’m thinking, which is just scary considering what some of my thoughts are. Thanks for the great articles/recipes.
    Junith

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    Heidi Robb — 5/12/09 @ 7:35 am

    Espanol, por favor! Okay, that’s all I got.

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    Alison — 5/12/09 @ 7:37 am

    I’d love to learn Chinese and I’m an email subscriber.

    thank you!

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    Scott G — 5/12/09 @ 7:40 am

    Please accept my entry for the Spanish language training. I’m already subscribed to your e-mail list. Thanks!

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    Mário — 5/12/09 @ 7:43 am

    Wow, lover recipies, and love chinese. Let´s see if I get a lucky cookie.

    Thank you!

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    Melissa — 5/12/09 @ 7:51 am

    Would love to learn Spanish!

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    Laura — 5/12/09 @ 8:00 am

    I’d love to learn Italian although Spanish would probably prove more useful to me. I’m an email subscriber too!

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    Meg Stocks — 5/12/09 @ 8:11 am

    Hi – my kids and I are studying Mandarin! We think it will be the most useful language for the future. Love your emails!! Thanks for offering this opportunity, Meg

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    Joanna — 5/12/09 @ 8:20 am

    If there was a Cantonese Chinese Pod, I’d be all about it. I’d happily take Italian though! (e-mail subscriber)

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    Valerie — 5/12/09 @ 8:29 am

    I would like to learn Spanish!

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    Janet — 5/12/09 @ 8:39 am

    i would love to learn mandarin chinese. thank you! i’m already an email subscriber.

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    K. — 5/12/09 @ 8:49 am

    I would love to learn Chinese!

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    Craig — 5/12/09 @ 8:51 am

    I would love to learn Mandarin. I lived for year in Guangzhou and picked up some Cantonese, but Mandarin is the language which will serve me best if I can finagle my way back to China someday.

    Jaden, I first came across your blog from a google search looking for Shangainese Soup Dumpling recipe. Yours was the one which took me right back to the dumplings served in my favourite Shanghainese restaurant.
    I’ve been a regular reader ever since.

    Cheers and thanks.

    Craig.

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    Tina — 5/12/09 @ 8:51 am

    I’d love to re-learn all of my forgotten high school Spanish. I’m an email subscriber.

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    Erica — 5/12/09 @ 8:52 am

    I’d be sooooooooooo happy to learn French!

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    Gretchen — 5/12/09 @ 8:57 am

    I would like to learn all of those languages, but at this point I would pick Italian. I’m happily already on the email list :)

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    chefsandy — 5/12/09 @ 9:02 am

    I’d love to learn French, but probably more practical would be Spanish. Learning a foreign language beginning with food terms would be a hoot!

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    Marna — 5/12/09 @ 9:07 am

    I’m a subscriber and I’d love to brush up my Spanish for use in my job at the police department.

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    Victoria — 5/12/09 @ 9:15 am

    Chinese (though Spanish might be more practical ;D).

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    Amy in TX — 5/12/09 @ 9:15 am

    Ohhhh, I would love to learn Spanish (or at least more than I already know)…..I’m trying to teach the wee-ones when they are still young enough for it to be easy for them. (And I’m an email subscriber)

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    Morgan Hartman — 5/12/09 @ 9:22 am

    I want to learn Spanish. I know, trite, but I just moved to Miami and it is ESSENTIAL that I learn! I love that I am in the minority, and I am so motivated to learn. It is a shame we don’t put more of an emphasis on being multi-lingual – I should have learned when I was a child!

    Love your website & your blogs!

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    katie — 5/12/09 @ 9:27 am

    French.

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    Kara — 5/12/09 @ 9:32 am

    It would be good to learn some Spanish!

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    Angela — 5/12/09 @ 9:33 am

    I would like to learn Italiano!

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    Kara — 5/12/09 @ 9:33 am

    Email subscriber!

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    Angela — 5/12/09 @ 9:33 am

    I am an email subscriber, so Italiano please, take two!

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    wmoss — 5/12/09 @ 9:37 am

    Spanish for me por favor.

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    Becky T — 5/12/09 @ 9:42 am

    I may be moving to southern California soon & would LOVE to learn Spanish so I can at the very least pronounce the name of the street I live on! (I am and email subscriber also). Thanks for taking the time to do these contests!

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    Kaylee — 5/12/09 @ 9:42 am

    Oooh I’d love to learn Italian!

    ‘Al contadino non far sapere quanto è buono il formaggio con le pere.’ (Don’t let the farmer know how good cheese is with pears.)

    Kaylee (email subscriber)

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    martingale — 5/12/09 @ 9:44 am

    Chinese please. I have about forgotten every single thing I learned before, even the cuss words.

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    Jackie — 5/12/09 @ 9:46 am

    Awesome! I wish they had a Korean pod!
    Of these, my first choice would be Spanish.
    Thanks!!

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    Jackie — 5/12/09 @ 9:47 am

    Ooh, and I’m an email subscriber so here’s my 2nd entry! :)
    Spanish, please!

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    Mary Lou — 5/12/09 @ 9:50 am

    I’ve always wanted to learn Italian. I grew up with an Italian grandmother who spoke Italian to me, I answered her in English and that is how we learned Italian and she English!

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    mirinblue — 5/12/09 @ 9:55 am

    I would love to learn all of them, actually, but if I have to choose, it would be spanish. There are so many times each day that my world collides with Spanish!

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    mirinblue — 5/12/09 @ 10:00 am

    Here is my bonus entry as a subscriber…Spanish,¡por favor, mi amiga! Amaría aprender. Gracias!

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    Julie — 5/12/09 @ 10:06 am

    I am an email subscriber. I would love to learn Chinese!

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    elizabeth — 5/12/09 @ 10:06 am

    I would really love to learn Spanish. I work with the public, and speaking Spanish is very important in my area.

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    susan — 5/12/09 @ 10:11 am

    my husband is trying to learn chinese, this would help a lot!

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    Julie — 5/12/09 @ 10:12 am

    I’d Love to learn French!

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    Frog Princess — 5/12/09 @ 10:16 am

    I’d like to learn Spanish.

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    Frog Princess — 5/12/09 @ 10:16 am

    I’m an email subscriber, and I’d like to learn Spanish.

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    Monica — 5/12/09 @ 10:22 am

    I wanna learn mandarin !!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for this chance, Jaden.

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    Mike H. — 5/12/09 @ 10:24 am

    Learning Spanish would be fun.
    I am an email subscriber as well. Thanks especially for the recipe ideas.

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    slammie — 5/12/09 @ 10:29 am

    email subscriber….would like to learn Chinese because I’m an ABC (parents are from HK) and my poor kids get nothing but from Ni Hao, Kai Lan. ;)

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    Monica — 5/12/09 @ 10:30 am

    I`m an email subscriber too. Thank you for a wonderful blog!

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    Natalie R. — 5/12/09 @ 10:32 am

    I would love to learn Italian and I am a faithful email subscriber!

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    Nikki — 5/12/09 @ 10:34 am

    I’d like to learn French. My mother speaks Creole, but never taught us as children. I’d like to be able to sit around with my cousins in New Orleans and be able to grasp a little bit of what they’re talking about.

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    Crystal (Cafe Cyan) — 5/12/09 @ 10:40 am

    I’d like to relearn Spanish. I’m so embarassed that I have forgotten most of it! (I’m an e-mail subscriber too). Fingers crossed!!

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    starre — 5/12/09 @ 10:56 am

    Grand giveaway! Spanish please

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    somesummer — 5/12/09 @ 11:08 am

    I love chinese ribs but would not relish trying to cut them into bite size pieces. In my area grocery store butchers arent that eager to do custom cutting… My local big grocery store will have baby backs on sale from time to time. Next sale on baby backs I will try this recipe.

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    somesummer — 5/12/09 @ 11:09 am

    Oh by the way. I love your site. I would like to learn Spanish!!!

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    Betty — 5/12/09 @ 11:26 am

    My family and I want to learn Italian because my husband’s family is from Italy and we’ll be traveling there next year to celebrate our 20th anniversary, of course we will take our children who will be 12 and 13 next year. If all works out, we will be staying with world renown artist – Guido Borelli and his wife Danka. And Jaden – I love Sweet and Sour ribs!

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    joyjoy — 5/12/09 @ 11:27 am

    I would love to learn Chinese or become more fluent in Spanish!

    I’m also an email subscriber. :-)

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    Amber — 5/12/09 @ 11:34 am

    I have always wanted to learn french…

    and I am an email subscriber!

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    Sharon — 5/12/09 @ 11:36 am

    Italian!

    I can’t wait to try these ribs this weekend – I may not share with my family.

    Oh, and I am an email subscriber!

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    suncatcher — 5/12/09 @ 11:38 am

    I (and hub) would like to learn Spanish. It is a long term goal of ours to travel to Peru, so it would be good to be able to communicate. Personally, I would like to learn Italian for the pure pleasure of it. Maybe someday I’ll get there too. Dream Big!

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    suncatcher — 5/12/09 @ 11:40 am

    I am an email subscriber and also receive your rss feed. Enjoy your site.

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    Heather — 5/12/09 @ 11:46 am

    Oh, I’m an e-mail subscriber, so here’s my second entry. So exciting! I’d love to win the Spanish Pod!

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    gigi — 5/12/09 @ 11:47 am

    I’d like to learn Spanish! And I’m an email subscriber. :)

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    Tracy — 5/12/09 @ 11:47 am

    I love your site. I would love to learn Italian. Me & my husband are planning a trip to Italy one day.

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    Tracy — 5/12/09 @ 11:48 am

    Oh by the way I am also an email subscriber

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    Jen — 5/12/09 @ 11:55 am

    French!! French!!! Going back to France this year!! :)

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    Yin — 5/12/09 @ 12:00 pm

    email subscriber here.. this is my second entry. I would love to learn Cantonese (all over again). Thanks for the giveaway!

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    Propagandhi — 5/12/09 @ 12:10 pm

    I would love to relearn French.

    I am an email subscriber.

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    ShaSha — 5/12/09 @ 12:14 pm

    I’d like to learn Spanish! And I’m an email subscriber. Thanks, I love the give-aways!

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    Yen — 5/12/09 @ 12:33 pm

    hahahaha omg that was the funniest video ever!
    I would love to learn Mandarin Chinese again… it’s kinda sad how after 12+ years of Chinese School and i could barely read a menu at the restaurant? Whats worse is they don’t have pingying next to the words but then again i doubt i remember all of them haha

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    debra Lovell — 5/12/09 @ 12:41 pm

    I have tried others. I would really like to speak Spanish. There are lots of people here now who are Spanish and very few people can talk to them. It would be a big help to me.
    Thanks
    Deb

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    n gennaro — 5/12/09 @ 12:44 pm

    Trying to learn Chinese, one word at a time…

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    Sasha — 5/12/09 @ 12:46 pm

    Jaden, I love your recipes and your sense of humour! Thanks so much for the giveaways – I would love to learn either Italian or Spanish. They are such beautiful languages.

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    Kristin — 5/12/09 @ 12:46 pm

    Oooh. This sounds neat. I’ve always wanted to learn Spanish. (I am an email subscriber, too).

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    Sasha — 5/12/09 @ 12:46 pm

    I am also an email subscriber (wouldn’t miss a thing). :-)

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    Ginger — 5/12/09 @ 1:03 pm

    I actually would like to learn Chinese – Cantonese and have been trying (a little bit) with library books on CD. I figure that if close to a billion folks speak a language, I should at least learn some of it, esp if I want to travel there and know what I am doing and eating! Thanks for the giveaway!

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    Ginger — 5/12/09 @ 1:05 pm

    Oh and I am an email subscriber and twitter follower (that sounds a bit cult-ish doesn’t it?).

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    Kristin T — 5/12/09 @ 1:16 pm

    the language pick is a tough choice. Learn more Spanish (so that I can actually use it? or French or Italian? because i’d like to travel to both places? I think…. Italian would win. I think.

    and I’m an email subscriber.

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    Hans-Peter — 5/12/09 @ 1:17 pm

    I would like to learn Chinese and I am an email subscriber.

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    Mokona — 5/12/09 @ 1:25 pm

    Wow, what a fantastic giveaway! I’ve always wanted to learn Mandarin Chinese.

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    Jo — 5/12/09 @ 1:26 pm

    hi jaden,

    my son learns mandarin chinese in school,this might help him…
    i learnt french a long time ago…would love to do it again.
    i’m also an email subscriber.
    Jo

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    bruleeblog — 5/12/09 @ 1:33 pm

    Spanish please, and this is my e-mail subscriber entry.

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    Christina — 5/12/09 @ 1:37 pm

    Having grown up in the Midwest as one of the Asian-Americans, I can totally relate. I wish my parents dragged my bratty butt to Chinese school! I tried to learn Mandarin in college and took it pass/fail. It kicked my butt w/all the traditional characters. To stay true to my roots, I would like to learn Cantonese.

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    Lisa — 5/12/09 @ 1:42 pm

    Since coming back from my trip to Peru and Costa Rica, I have been taking a few Spanish lessons here and there but would like to be more fluent. I am also an email subscriber :) Thanks!

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    Sandra — 5/12/09 @ 1:50 pm

    For about 20 years, I was the restaurant critic for a major newspaper in the San Franciscioi Bay Area. My friends and/or my children and/or other family members and/or bums off the street accompanied me on my three meals to each restaurant so that I’d be able to order enough different dishes to make up a column. Usually, I stole the menu, but often, I’d need one or another of my kids (who started stealing at the age of two) to do it for me. (Who expects a toddler to steal the menu?) I never did figure out how to copy the daily specials from off the mirror or blackboard without being detected. (I really did have to remain anonymous to restaurateurs.)

    (This comment was first published on 19 April 2009 in the ChinesePod comments section for the first Menu Stealer video.)

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    Sam — 5/12/09 @ 1:55 pm

    I love this site! Great No Knead Bread recipe!!!

    I would love to learn French!

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    Moon — 5/12/09 @ 2:07 pm

    I would love to win either the Chinese pod or Spanish pod. Am an email subscriber also. Great website and good food!

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    Jon — 5/12/09 @ 2:10 pm

    I would like to learn Cantonese/chinese to reconnect with my roots

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    Ari — 5/12/09 @ 2:28 pm

    Would LOVE the french, i was once at a pretty advanced level, but when you don’t get to use it every day it disappears pretty quickly!!! what a great giveaway.

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    Dee — 5/12/09 @ 2:28 pm

    I would love to learn French. It is such a pretty language.

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    Javier Cabral — 5/12/09 @ 2:37 pm

    The only class I ever “withdrew” (dropped) in my school career was a Mandarin class I took up a while back.

    Food, was the only reason I took it up in my life, to be able to eat off the ‘authentic’ menu in many Chinese establishments and surprise the hell out of a waitress while ordering.

    Not to mention, my ever-growing wish to ni-ga…ni-ga…’shi dofu!’ (slang for trying to pick up on beautiful Chinese girls! White, smooth complexion as in tofu no? Probably the only thing I picked up in class ha, ha)

    Have also been a loyal steamy emailee for a while now!

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    Wendy Huelsman — 5/12/09 @ 2:51 pm

    Hi…what a great contest! I would love to be fluent in Spanish. I am an email subscriber!!

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    Mike L — 5/12/09 @ 2:52 pm

    When I was a little guy (pre-K), my Mom told me i was quite fluent in Cantonese as an American born Chinese), as well as English, but was running into problems at my pre K classes. When the teacher would hold up an object for the class to identify, i would correctly identify the item, but only in Chinese. I was told that I was quite obstinate and argumentative back then, so my Mom decided that, moving forward, I would only build on my English.

    I feel kinda like the social outcast whenever I shop at an Asian grocery store or shop in Chinatown, and at first glance, the store clerk speaks to me in chinese, but as soon as they hear my flawless English, give me an odd lokk and convert ot english to finish the transaction.

    If I am chosen, I would like to learn mandarin.

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    suganya — 5/12/09 @ 2:58 pm

    I’d love to learn spanish.

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    Tina — 5/12/09 @ 3:01 pm

    This would be great. I would love to relearn cantonese as well. And I wouldn’t mind learning French.

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    Wendy Huelsman — 5/12/09 @ 3:07 pm

    Hi…what a great contest! I would love to be fluent in Spanish. I am an email subscriber!! This is my second entry.

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    Heidy — 5/12/09 @ 3:24 pm

    Hi! I look forward to Steamy Kitchen emails, one of the few emails I don’t delete right away!! I would love to learn Chinese, French, and Spanish; they are all useful to know. But since I can’t be greedy and am planning to move to Houston TX again within the next year or so, I would chose Spanish which would help with the job issue. (Why is it only the bad words stick with you??! Maybe because they don’t sound so bad in non-English…)

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    Kusuma Nio — 5/12/09 @ 3:27 pm

    Long time lurker, first time poster. Love your site. I would like to learn Spanish.

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    Paula K — 5/12/09 @ 3:49 pm

    I def would love to learn Spanish. I really regret not choosing it in high school

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    michelle — 5/12/09 @ 3:56 pm

    I really want to learn Spanish. I am going into nursing and I think that Spanish would help me A LOT in healthcare!

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    Barbara — 5/12/09 @ 4:44 pm

    I enjoy your site and thanks for the great give aways!!!!
    I’d love to learn Spanish!!! :) :) :)

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    Abigail — 5/12/09 @ 5:02 pm

    French, please. Thanks, Jaden.

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    Deanna — 5/12/09 @ 5:17 pm

    I really think it’s about time I learn Italian, since I’ve been married to one for 21 years now! Ciao!

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    Maria — 5/12/09 @ 5:19 pm

    Hi! I really love your website, and all the recipes that I did turned out into a success! I think I would like to learn Chinese, partly because I’m part Chinese.

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    Ashw — 5/12/09 @ 5:24 pm

    Spanish…Spanish…absolutely!

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    SandyO — 5/12/09 @ 5:31 pm

    I’d love to learn French. Have always wanted to visit Paris but really would appreciate the boost of knowing something of the local language.

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    Michelle — 5/12/09 @ 5:35 pm

    I have a great desire to learn Italian for when we get to travel to Italy next year. As an interpreter for my boyfriend who is deaf, it would be helpful for me to be able to speak the language when we travel.

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    Shimmergirl — 5/12/09 @ 5:46 pm

    Wow, I would love to learn Spanish. Barcelona is my all-time favorite city, and every opportunity I have ( I currently live in Frankfurt) I hop on one of the many cheap flights to Barcelona and soak up its vibe. Being able to speak the language would triple the fun!

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    dena — 5/12/09 @ 6:07 pm

    I would like to learn chinese, specifically mandarin. My son is taking mandarin in HS, and this would let me help him.

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    rini — 5/12/09 @ 6:29 pm

    would love to learn chinese :D

    and i love ribs! . would have to try to make it someday

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    rini — 5/12/09 @ 6:45 pm

    actually .. either chinese or french will be cool :D

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    Shimmergirl — 5/12/09 @ 6:54 pm

    Ooops, forgot to let you know that I am an email subscriber. Spanish por favor!

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    JJ's momma — 5/12/09 @ 7:06 pm

    i am so glad i found your website. i love love love your recipes!

    (would love to win the chinese language program too!)

    thanks for sharing your great eats online!

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    Priscilla — 5/12/09 @ 8:05 pm

    I am an email subscriber and would love to learn Spanish since I took French in school. Thank you for your colorful site.

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    Cindy — 5/12/09 @ 8:31 pm

    Hi, I am an email subscriber and I would like to learn spanish.

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    Truc — 5/12/09 @ 8:41 pm

    Spanish! And I’m an email subscriber

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    Jules @ Lovely Las Vegas — 5/12/09 @ 9:09 pm

    I’m an e-mail subscriber, but I’d love the second entry, too. Would be thrilled to get the ChinesePod program! Really need to progress quicker with Mandarin so I can speak more effectively with my husband’s family. I had signed up for the trial period, but around the time it expired, I was laid off, so money flow has been a greater issue these days and I’m only buying basic needs now.

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    Panya — 5/12/09 @ 9:31 pm

    Saw this in the newsletter, and I had to comment! While I’d like to learn Mandarin in honor of my Chinese ancestors, I think Spanish would be handier in my area/at work.

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    judy — 5/12/09 @ 9:31 pm

    I can’t wait to make TangCu Pai Gu and eat them while talking Chinese with friends thanks to winning a year of Chinesepod here.
    I will send you a handmade ceramic bowl if you pick me,
    that’s how delighted I would be.

    gorgeous work, esp the ceramic bowl! ~j

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    sb — 5/12/09 @ 10:08 pm

    spanish!

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    Holly — 5/12/09 @ 10:27 pm

    I took French all through junior high school and high school but it’s quickly slipping away. I’d love to relearn what I’ve forgotten and improve what I haven’t!

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    Rynx — 5/12/09 @ 10:56 pm

    Hi, I’d love to learn Chinese (more specifically… Mandarin)! And I’m an email subscriber.

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    M. Hong — 5/12/09 @ 11:08 pm

    I would love to learn Spanish. I am an e-mail subscriber to Steamy Kitchen and have given up learning Chinese….sorry!! After 25+ years of trying….I am the only one who can understand what I say….sigh!!

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    Debbie Lee — 5/12/09 @ 11:43 pm

    You have some great recipes and I really enjoying reading about your blog. Thanks for the chance to win a language program. :)

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    Cakebrain — 5/13/09 @ 12:26 am

    um. ahem. I guess I should really learn some Chinese…I’d actually prefer to learn Cantonese even though Mandarin is the dialect of the moment. Cantonese is closest to the bumpkin dialect I grew up with since my parents were originally from Toi Saan. I haven’t ever been able to say much beyond what a preschooler can say in Cantonese though I took Cantonese classes 3 times a week for 7 years when I was a kid. I was born in Canada and since I teach English, I have a ready excuse not to speak Chinese. Like you I grew up in the ’70′s; but in Canada…an era where being ethnic got your butt kicked in the playground. I managed to bring sandwiches to school and fit in by not mentioning I liked “jook” or chicken feet.

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    Jack Juntarnupattanar — 5/13/09 @ 12:37 am

    I would love to learn Chinese, Mandarin.
    I am actually going to China next year :)

    Cheers,
    Jack

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    Jessica — 5/13/09 @ 12:43 am

    Chinese because I’m an American-born Chinese and I didn’t learn growing up (I’m actually happy I didn’t but that’s a different story) and I’d like to learn now. Would prefer Cantonese because that’s what my family speaks, but whatever.

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    Jesse — 5/13/09 @ 12:56 am

    A subscription to Chinese Pod would be most helpful. I’m studying at uni, and hoping to go to China soon. I definitely need more practice listening! 中国人说很快了！

    Thanks,

    Jesse

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    erica — 5/13/09 @ 12:57 am

    I would love to learn chinese!!

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    Maple — 5/13/09 @ 1:57 am

    Italian, because I already know the other four :)

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    Jayne — 5/13/09 @ 3:03 am

    Cantonese- if not, Spanish.

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    ClarenceCCT — 5/13/09 @ 3:22 am

    I’d like to learn all of them! (which you can do, for a mere 60 bucks more…. not that I wish to give Praxis any more free press…)

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    JennAnn — 5/13/09 @ 9:23 am

    I think it would be fun to learn Spanish.

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    Kelli — 5/13/09 @ 10:14 am

    Just happened upon your blog and I love it. Since my 5 year old knows more Spanish than me, I would love to learn it so I understand him. All I know is no habla espanol!

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    Erica — 5/13/09 @ 10:21 am

    My native language is Spanish and My husband’s is English. We talk to my son in both languages and he is learning both at the same time. It is great!

    Your blog is really nice.

    Erica.

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    George — 5/13/09 @ 10:56 am

    Spanglish for sure – I’m an e-mail subby too…

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    Michelle Tan — 5/13/09 @ 11:41 am

    Will be very happy if I can be one of the winners. Oh yes, French will be my choice.

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    Carol Peterman — 5/13/09 @ 1:36 pm

    I was in Hong Kong for the first time last summer and look forward to the next time I can visit. I would love to learn Cantonese, especially food words! I also have friends living in Madagascar and intend to visit before they leave and would like to learn some basic travel French before going there.

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    Aaron Schalk — 5/13/09 @ 1:38 pm

    I would totally grab the Spanish lessons. I live in Chicago and am constantly looking at signs and billboard trying to translate them as a language lesson. Doesn’t work. At all.

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    Karen — 5/13/09 @ 1:57 pm

    Chinese is suppose to be the language of the future. The question is Mandarin or Cantonese. I know just enough of both to cram it together into one language so that only my mother understands me. I could use some refinement.

    P.S Ribs that I don’t have to mess up the kitchen with fry oil!?! Awesome.

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    judyfoodie — 5/13/09 @ 2:17 pm

    Like you I forgot how to speak Cantonese properly, but can understand what is being said to me. I definitely cannot speak Mandarin. I would want to learn Mandarin though.

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    Lin Le — 5/13/09 @ 2:31 pm

    I would pick Chinese.

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    Sara — 5/13/09 @ 3:10 pm

    spanish! I am an email subscriber

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    John Anderson — 5/13/09 @ 3:23 pm

    Great website! I would never have heard of it if not for Chinesepod.com. Chinese is my language of choice.

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    Jennifer Yi — 5/13/09 @ 3:32 pm

    I would definitelywant to continue learning Chinese!

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    Dallas — 5/13/09 @ 3:51 pm

    What an awesome giveaway. I would LOVE to learn Chinese.

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    La Carmina — 5/13/09 @ 4:34 pm

    Gotta brush up my Chinese! Good luck to everyone!

    PS – I’m having a giveaway too, with 5 prizes! Visit my new Cute Scottish Fold Cat blog to enter and win!

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    Cindy — 5/13/09 @ 5:04 pm

    I can definitely relate to Jaden’s experience. I grew up as the only Chinese person in my whole school (except for my brother). My Mom talked to me in Chinese but I wanted nothing to do with it. And, now I regret it also. I’d like to learn more Chinese.

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    kayenne — 5/13/09 @ 5:11 pm

    hi! this is my 2nd comment as an email subscriber.

    still interested in learning more chinese. aside from that, french would be good.

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    Jason — 5/13/09 @ 5:39 pm

    Well, Chinese would be great!

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    Ashley — 5/13/09 @ 5:41 pm

    What a great giveaway! I would love to learn French. I took 2 years of Spanish in highschool and 2 more semesters in college and absolutely loved it.

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    Erin Rojas — 5/13/09 @ 6:27 pm

    Love your site … what a terrific idea for a give away.
    I would love to learn Spanish. My husband is from Peru, we just visited Lima and I wish I could have communicated better. I can share Peruvian dishes with you if you like! ;-)

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    Phoebe — 5/13/09 @ 7:45 pm

    I want to learn Mandarin so I could travel to Shanghai and order all the yummy food!!

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    Marcy — 5/13/09 @ 8:05 pm

    I would like to learn Spanish. Love your site and the recipes.

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    julie — 5/13/09 @ 10:00 pm

    I’d like to learn Chinese so I can speak to my inlaws.

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    Kristina — 5/13/09 @ 10:18 pm

    My family has a similar story of linguistic loss, where my mom (and siblings) were born in the U.S. to Cantonese-speaking parents, but by soon after entering schools, where they were the only non-blonde-haired-blue-eyed kids in their Minneapolis school, they became English Only. I interviewed my mom for a linguistic loss project I did in college, and she mentioned the regret of not being able to pass the language on to her children. She says she usually understands just enough to know that someone’s saying, “she doesn’t know what I’m saying, does she?”

    Ironically, I speak Spanish, so my soon-to-arrive child will be bilingual in Spanish and English…but no heritage language. I’d love to learn Chinese to be able to pass some heritage on! (I figure Mandarin, though not Cantonese, is something, at least…)

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    Kristina — 5/13/09 @ 10:18 pm

    I forgot, do I need to mention that I’m an e-mail subscriber, as well?

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    Beth — 5/13/09 @ 10:35 pm

    I would love to be able to speak Spanish. I know just enough to pick up every other word if people speak REALLY slowly.

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    Beth — 5/13/09 @ 10:41 pm

    OK, so I tried to sign up for the email newsletter, but it just says entry could not be added to database, contact support. does support mean you? there doesn’t seem to be a support link on the page…

    hmmm….supposed to be FeedBlitz support…but I’ll take care of it! ~jaden

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    chris — 5/13/09 @ 11:24 pm

    On one hand I would love to learn to speak Italian, and have a conversation with my grandmother, and on the other hand so many of the associates I work with speak spanish. Would love to learn them both!!

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    Nhiro — 5/13/09 @ 11:25 pm

    I spent about 6 years learning Spanish from middle school up until college. Sadly, I think I can converse in Spanish better than in my native tongue (Viet). Since I don’t see that as an offered language, my vote’s for French. This way when my mom throws random French words at me, I can tell her she’s pronouncing it wrong! ;)

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    Charm — 5/14/09 @ 12:20 am

    Funny, my husband and I were just discussing the other night how we want our son to learn Chinese. =) I’m Filipino and my husband is Hispanic, so go figure! LOL…but really, we thought it would be good for him to learn. And what better way to teach it…then to learn it yourself. I learned Japanese in high school, so I think it would be FANTASTIC to learn Chinese. (um, too bad I don’t remember a lick of Japanese since I never got to use it. BUT, I was really good at it!) =P

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    Alison — 5/14/09 @ 12:22 am

    I would love to learn Spanish. Thanks for a great site!

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    Ashleigh — 5/14/09 @ 12:39 am

    I’d love to learn Chinese! I tried once but I just couldn’t handle the tones.. my brain wanted to explode! Maybe if I can give it another try with something more personalized that I can access 24/7 I’d be more successful. :)

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    melit medina — 5/14/09 @ 1:16 am

    I’d like to learn Chinese so I can communicate with
    our Cantonese- speaking patients.
    Thnaks!

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    Tisa — 5/14/09 @ 2:35 am

    I would love to learn Spanish.

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    Nate — 5/14/09 @ 2:39 am

    I need to learn Mandarin.

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    Damian — 5/14/09 @ 6:12 am

    I like to learn Chinese.

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    Stacy — 5/14/09 @ 6:56 am

    Wow, this is great! I don’t know what I would get – my french needs work. Or I could get some instruction in Spanish, we’ve I’ve picked up words and phrases here and there. Or I could learn something completely new like Italian!

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    Andrea — 5/14/09 @ 9:44 am

    Hi! Love the site! I’ve already got a decent handle on Spanish after living in Madrid for a year, so I’d like to work on my French.

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    Elizabeth — 5/14/09 @ 10:13 am

    I’ve been learning Italian for a few years and I just ran out of classes to take at my school, so this would be fantastic. Thanks for the giveaway, Jaden!

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    Matt — 5/14/09 @ 10:28 am

    I’m making my first trip to China in July. My wife and I will be staying with her brother and his wife in Beijing for a couple weeks before I start my MBA. I can speak some Spanish but for the trip and hopefully my future business plans, I’d love to learn Chinese!

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    Alicia — 5/14/09 @ 11:08 am

    French. I took in it middle & high school, and all I retained is how to count to 100 and some colors. Have you ever tried to learn any other languages?

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    Yui — 5/14/09 @ 11:26 am

    I’d really like to learn French!

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    Lunasea — 5/14/09 @ 1:32 pm

    I would like to learn to speak Spanish.

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    Emily — 5/14/09 @ 1:54 pm

    I’d love to learn Italian!

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    Christina — 5/14/09 @ 2:28 pm

    This is so awesome. I want to get my Cantonese up to par as well. I can understand better than I can speak. :)

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    Leticia — 5/14/09 @ 4:49 pm

    I would like to learn Chinese, I love learning new languages.

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    Jennifer Le — 5/14/09 @ 5:20 pm

    I am half Chinese (Cantonese) and Thai. I for one was born here and I don’t understand or read either unlike my sister’ and brother’s. I wish I could of learn or pay some kind of attention when I was younger.

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    Jennie — 5/14/09 @ 6:02 pm

    I’d like to learn Chinese.

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    Stephanie — 5/14/09 @ 6:46 pm

    I would love to learn Italian.

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    Cheyenne — 5/14/09 @ 8:26 pm

    I’d love to learn Chinese! When I was really little, I didn’t speak a word of English, but eventually I integrated myself so well into the American school system that I somehow forgot how to speak Cantonese. =( I can still understand it, but really regret not being able communicate with it.

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    momgateway — 5/14/09 @ 9:19 pm

    Today I saw in the paper that 1 in 6 Americans in the U.S. are hispanics! So think I’d like to learn spanish –it will come in handy in a couple of years. I’d like to learn chinese too. I think both are important languages…plus I can communicate with my in-laws!

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    Sutat — 5/14/09 @ 10:07 pm

    I’d love to learn Chinese, so I can use it when I visit China next year.

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    Cindy — 5/14/09 @ 11:43 pm

    I also was born in Hong Kong and came to the States at 4 y/o. I still speak cantonese but I’ve been accused of speaking it with an “english accent” from other natives from the homeland. Oh, and I would be a lousy translator. I would totally use the wrong words and end up saying something stupid. One time, thinking I was saying “boss lady”, I ended up saying “soy sauce lady” cause the both words sounded so much alike. : )

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    Margaret — 5/15/09 @ 12:22 am

    I love this website. I just recently found it and now have the time to browse. I can’t wait until I am able to get to an Asian market as there are none where I live. I will be making most of these recipes at some time or another.

    I am an email newsletter subscriber. My son, his wife and my grandchild will be living in China for a few years and I am interested in learning Chinese so that when I visit, I can talk to my grandchild as I expect him to be fluent when I get there!

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    Meagan — 5/15/09 @ 12:49 am

    I really like your site . . . I discovered it recently, and everytime I come back I see new amazing recipes that I just have to try. And, I would really really love to learn Italian.

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    Meagan — 5/15/09 @ 12:51 am

    Hi again, entering twice…. I am also enjoying the newsletter. Can’t wait to make those ribs.
    And can’t wait to learn Italian

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    Susan Lee — 5/15/09 @ 8:29 am

    wow. I would love to learn french!

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    Rexanna — 5/15/09 @ 10:58 am

    Spanish, por favor:)

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    Chuck — 5/15/09 @ 11:36 am

    I’ve been using ChinesePod for about a year now. It really helps in BOTH writing/reading and speaking.

    Also, I just discovered this website. Fantastic.

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    Melissa — 5/15/09 @ 1:49 pm

    I took 6 years of Spanish, so I think I might like to learn Chinese.

    I just discovered your site a couple of days ago and I can’t stop reading it. I have already cooked 2 recipes and they were fantastic! Was just trying to find the best place to comment on your awesome site and your no-nonsense, delicious recipes when I found this. I’ve also been laughing the whole time! Can’t wait for the cookbook!

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    Chris J — 5/15/09 @ 2:50 pm

    Love your blog AND the recipes. We have a house in France and I would love to learn their beautiful language better!!

    Thanks,
    Chris

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    Jules — 5/15/09 @ 4:38 pm

    I would like to learn Spanish b/c we plan on retiring there one day!

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    Robin — 5/15/09 @ 6:25 pm

    Chinese!

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    Stephanie — 5/15/09 @ 6:34 pm

    Arabic! My boyfriend will be going to a graduate school in Saudi Arabia (and I’m going with) – and we need a crash course! The sesame seared fish was BOMB.

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    Ece — 5/16/09 @ 2:42 am

    I really would like to learn Italian. I love cooking, especially Italian, Turkish, Greek food, and I would like to go to Italy for culinary education. I plan on doing this professionally in the future.

    Thanks!!

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    Tab — 5/16/09 @ 3:41 am

    Dear Steamy Kitchen,

    Thanks for the great site! I’d like to learn Chinese.

    Keep up the good work,

    Tab

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    Amelia — 5/16/09 @ 7:23 am

    I love your blog! I’d really love to learn Chinese.

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    sheryl — 5/16/09 @ 11:11 am

    I need a UN official language. French si’l vous plait!

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    Jan Gunther — 5/16/09 @ 12:55 pm

    It is my lifes ambition to read Dante’s Inferno in the original Italian. It would also come in handy for reading my dear friend’s cookbooks that she brought from the old country.

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    Lexi — 5/16/09 @ 1:06 pm

    I would like to learn Spanish

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    Suzanne Newberg — 5/16/09 @ 2:19 pm

    I would love to learn Spanish. I adore your site, expecially the gluten free options. Thank you for being so considerate of us GF people!!!

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    Deb — 5/16/09 @ 2:20 pm

    Spanish, please (actually Japanese would be great, but it’s not on your list)

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    Deb — 5/16/09 @ 2:21 pm

    am I supposed to say that I am an email reader?

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    Wendy C. — 5/16/09 @ 4:16 pm

    I’m the same as you, I would love to relearn Chinese!

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    Karen — 5/16/09 @ 6:08 pm

    I’d like to learn (well, it’d be half learning-relearning) Chinese. I understand Cantonese, and can speak crappy, extremely accented, simple sentences, and a few words of Mandarin. It would be awesome if I could improve my level of Chinese.

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    Susan — 5/16/09 @ 6:11 pm

    I’d love to learn to speak Chinese…with a Texas accent, of course!

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    Quyen — 5/16/09 @ 6:34 pm

    Chinese, please!

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    Sondha — 5/16/09 @ 8:42 pm

    French please! Perfect for traipsing around Europe later this year!

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    Tram — 5/16/09 @ 11:37 pm

    I would love the Chinese version! This looks so fun!

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    Kim — 5/17/09 @ 2:54 am

    French, please

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    Page — 5/17/09 @ 8:33 am

    My husband is Chinese and I’m Scottish. I know very few words in Chinese. I would love to learn Chinese so that I could understand his parents, communicate with his grandparents, and eventually teach my children.

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    Elaine — 5/17/09 @ 10:40 am

    I would love to learn Italian!

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    bernice — 5/17/09 @ 11:47 am

    I would love to learn more Chinese.

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    Maria — 5/17/09 @ 12:38 pm

    I’d like the Chinese version please.

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    jul — 5/17/09 @ 1:01 pm

    spanish!
    i’m currently learning french, and hope to improve it when i go there for half a year; however, spanish is one of the ‘to-learn’ languages in my book, so why not :}

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    Margie — 5/17/09 @ 2:16 pm

    I’d love to learn Spanish along with my kids. Thanks!

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    Marisa — 5/17/09 @ 3:04 pm

    Mandarin!
    Xie xie!

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    Sonia — 5/17/09 @ 3:50 pm

    Mandarin Chinese!

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    Bianca — 5/17/09 @ 7:15 pm

    I would really like to learn Spanish to honor my grandmother’s heritage. When you’re a kid, you take it for granted that they will always be around to teach you things when you get older and sometimes it doesn’t quite work out.

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    keri — 5/17/09 @ 9:27 pm

    i would love to learn chinese. i have friends in cheng-du. i would love to be able to have a good dialouge with them in mandarin.

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    Stephen — 5/17/09 @ 10:42 pm

    Love the recipe – I’m going to try it this week. I’d really like the Chinese Pod subscription too.

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    Kari — 5/18/09 @ 12:21 am

    I’d like to learn Español!

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    Kari — 5/18/09 @ 12:22 am

    I am an e-mail subscriber…

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    Sheila — 5/18/09 @ 12:25 am

    Chinese.
    Xie xie.

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    Lars — 5/18/09 @ 2:06 am

    I would love to learn Italian.

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    Shao — 5/18/09 @ 3:18 am

    Hoping to win this for the boyfriend! It would make communication between him and my parents a whole lot easier.

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    marte — 5/18/09 @ 5:12 am

    Hello Jaden,

    I’ve been wanting to tell you that I like this blog and your glorious food and your lovely kids, and now I can do so and maybe even win something!
    (as long as it is an online-only course, probably, because I don’t live in the US)

    I am doing a sort of language-exchange thing with a girl in my building, she is Chinese and goes to university here in the Netherlands. I am trying to help her learn Dutch, and she frowns at me when I fumble my way through anything Mandarin. I would love to be able to wow her (although she never actually seems impressed when I do get something right : ) with something topical..

    Will be making the Korean BBQ beef sometime this week, I love love love asian pear, and am really interested to find out what it can do for beef. Thanks!

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    e Lim — 5/18/09 @ 9:02 am

    I’d definitely like to bone up on my Chinese (beyond ordering dim sum)!

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    Amanda — 5/18/09 @ 10:56 am

    I would love to learn French, and use it to explore Burgundy and other wine regions on vacation. Great blog, by the way!

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    Rebecca — 5/18/09 @ 12:13 pm

    I would love to learn Chinese!

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    Michelle — 5/18/09 @ 2:47 pm

    I’ve been trying to teach myself Italian but haven’t been able to get very far, so I’d LOVE to win this giveaway!

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    Eye — 5/18/09 @ 5:50 pm

    I speak mandarin, but cantonese would be helpful communicating with the my in-laws.

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    Cathy — 5/18/09 @ 6:24 pm

    I would love to learn either Spanish or Italian.

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    Randy — 5/18/09 @ 7:02 pm

    I would love to learn Chinese Mandarin. Oddly enough I too only know the simple stuff and cuss words.

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    Allen — 5/18/09 @ 10:37 pm

    My 13 year old daughter loves your blog! She has become quite interested in all things Asian so your Praxis language information is very timely. Thank you.

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    April — 5/18/09 @ 11:21 pm

    My 7-year-old son would LOVE to learn Chinese, and…well…it might be helpful if I too learned it!

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    Wendy — 5/19/09 @ 12:43 am

    Spanish please. ;-)

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    Rachel — 5/19/09 @ 1:42 am

    MANDARIN! My husband and I have been using what we can from Chinese pod and aspire to teach English in China next year. This would be wonderful!!!

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    MoBatali — 5/19/09 @ 2:30 am

    I love cheese and wine and I want to learn French because I feel like an idiot when attempting a pronunciation! Please pick meeeeeeee!

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    zenobia — 5/19/09 @ 10:43 am

    Inspired to cook Asian, and love your detailed recipes.
    Would love to learn Spanish.

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    fontaine prophet — 5/19/09 @ 10:56 am

    Spanish or Japanese please

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    Monica M — 5/19/09 @ 11:43 am

    I’d love to learn Cantonese

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    Julie Hood — 5/19/09 @ 1:10 pm

    Chinese!

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    Dawn — 5/19/09 @ 2:22 pm

    wow, what a great giveaway! I would be thrilled to have lessons in French, Spanish, Italian or Chinese! (With a nod to the unlisted Japanese)

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    veedee — 5/19/09 @ 4:26 pm

    I’ve forgotten Spanish, shame on me!

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    linda — 5/19/09 @ 6:50 pm

    mandarin/putonghua would be great. thanks.

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    Betty — 5/19/09 @ 8:32 pm

    I would like to learn Chinese, so I can understand what the ladies in China town are always talking about.

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    Joe — 5/19/09 @ 9:46 pm

    Spanish please….practical for daily life in the U.S.

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    Jorge — 5/19/09 @ 11:13 pm

    I’d just love to learn chinese, i’ve always been fascinated by asin cultures. PLEASE, PICK ME!

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    Markovitch — 5/19/09 @ 11:27 pm

    I want to learn Mandarin so I can ask all the street chefs how they do their thing! And the grandmas at the wet market–they must know the best way to cook those strange greens I’ve never seen before.

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    Carlos Martinez — 5/20/09 @ 12:55 am

    Definitely want to learn and manage Chinese Mandarin. I’m struggling with tones, pronunciation, characters…

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    Jonathan — 5/20/09 @ 1:41 am

    Chinese!!! This is a great idea. Love the blog.

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    Jennifer Jenkins — 5/20/09 @ 10:58 am

    I would love to learn Spanish. I learned a little in school, but I would really like to be fluent.

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    laura — 5/20/09 @ 11:25 am

    I need to learn spanish! I am moving to costa rica for grad school and I have to learn it very quickly and as cheaply as possible.

    Awesome site! thank you : )

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    Wontonie — 5/20/09 @ 12:50 pm

    Spanish! Would love to be fluent to communicate with patients in my profession!

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    webgeekgirl — 5/20/09 @ 6:49 pm

    I’d love to learn chinese. There are so many languages I’d like to learn but mandarin is high up on the list.

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    Michelle — 5/20/09 @ 9:40 pm

    Chinese!

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    Marc — 5/21/09 @ 2:33 am

    I’m familiar with Chinesepod and think they’re great! I even visited their office in Shanghai last week. I want to learn Mandarin Chinese!

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    Christine — 5/21/09 @ 8:20 am

    Spanish! Outstanding give away…thank you!

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    Vikki — 5/21/09 @ 9:37 am

    French. My kids attend the French Immersion – I don’t speak French….Help!

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    BW — 5/21/09 @ 11:49 am

    Chinese 国语 Mandarin is my language of choice. Please pick me.

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    alzen — 5/21/09 @ 11:54 am

    Chinese would be my language of choice, too. I already hold a university degree in that language, but still, ChinesePod has lots of stuff to learn for me. :)

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    Matthew Borton — 5/21/09 @ 11:58 am

    Chinese! I will be going there for a year and i only have two years under my belt.

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    Tex — 5/21/09 @ 12:02 pm

    I want to learn Chinese!

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    Kris Krause — 5/21/09 @ 12:09 pm

    Chinese!

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    Gary Novosel — 5/21/09 @ 12:35 pm

    Chinese, please.

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    Jen — 5/21/09 @ 1:29 pm

    Definately, Chinese.

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    Maurice — 5/21/09 @ 2:19 pm

    Hello there,

    Great blog u have here!

    I am very much interested in being entered into the Praxis Language Program Giveaway. Language = Chinese.

    Thank you very much!

    - Maurice

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    Wendy Wing Lam — 5/21/09 @ 3:41 pm

    Interestingly, I have a similar background, though I’m fluent in spoken Cantonese. Verbal Mandarin skill is what I’m lacking. Last week when I was traveling in Beijing, a taxi driver was perplexed by the fact that I couldn’t articulate to him where I wanted to get to, when I could say everything else in broken Mandarin but the name of my destination. Clearly, I don’t want to be that lost girl with a Chinese face who can’t speak Mandarin on my next trip! So a 12-month subscription to Chinesepod/Praxis training would be much much appreciated! Thank you!!

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    Annie — 5/21/09 @ 11:18 pm

    I would love to learn Mandarin Chinese!

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    Shaggy D — 5/22/09 @ 12:54 am

    I’d love to study Chinese. I live in Beijing, where dining options offer an astounding array of both gastronomic delights and disasters. I want the lexical power to maximize the former and minimize the latter on my platter. The new Menu Stealer looks like just the ticket for dining out, and Steamy Kitchen can help me finally give my wok a workout for home dining. Great team-up!

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    Dana — 5/22/09 @ 10:40 am

    I would love to learn Italian! Hubby and I are planning on going to Rome and the Vatican for our 10th Anniversary, so learning a little Italian would help!

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    jess toal — 5/22/09 @ 5:43 pm

    I would like to learn EVERY language, but Mandarin, Arabic and Japanese are tops on my list– along with kicking my college French back into gear. Plus, I’m unemployed! Which means I’ll USE this awesome giveaway and it may just make me more employable! Woo hoo!

    Thanks so much for the pho recipe(s)– I used to have a favorite weekly pho indulgence, which I sadly had to give up as I’m watching the pennies (go out).

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    Kate — 5/22/09 @ 9:33 pm

    Wow! I found that Praxis Chinesepod site recently and was blown away, and was bumming about how I don’t have the $ for a subscription. I’m a Spanish teacher who loves languages, and I’ve been trying to get my Chinese study up and running. I’d be so happy to win!

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    Kim — 5/22/09 @ 10:25 pm

    Ooooo! I would love to learn French!

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    TempusFugitive — 5/23/09 @ 2:36 am

    Still sucking on my Mandarian :( So pick me!

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    Jon Savage — 5/23/09 @ 10:24 am

    My Italian is sorely in need of first aid

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    Patricia — 5/23/09 @ 10:25 am

    What a great giveaway! My son is taking Mandarin in school next year so I’d love to learn to learn alongside him.

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    SavingDiva — 5/23/09 @ 10:28 am

    I would love to learn Chinese.

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    Caitlin — 5/23/09 @ 10:30 am

    This is a really cool giveaway – I like the idea of language learning 2.0!

    I learnt German at school and I was an exchange student in Germany in year 10 of high school but I don’t use it much in adult life so it’s slowly rusting due to disuse. I can still make basic chat with German speakers though and they kindly tell me I’m not so bad.

    But if I won the competition, then I would pick Spanish. I have rudimentary Spanish from volunteering in Costa Rica after university but I never took the time to learn it properly. The reason I would go for Spanish, despite also wishing to learn French and Italian and Chinese, is because I’m about to move to California and hopefully do some travel in Central and South America. It might come in handy in California itself as well, especially with my work as a journalist.

    If anyone is interested in Chinese and specifically Chinese language with a food theme, then please check out my giveaway at ww.roamingtales.com/2009/05/20/un-of-food-china-plus-win-books/

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    John O'Connell — 5/23/09 @ 10:35 am

    French, I would like to be fluent in French. Like your tweets

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    Donna Donohue — 5/23/09 @ 10:45 am

    I would love to learn Italian. It’s been a dream to visit Italy someday, and with retirement coming up in a few years, I may do this, and to be conversant in Italian would be a plus! Thanks for running such a great little contest!

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    kwan — 5/23/09 @ 10:45 am

    Chinese! I’m a total ABC- American Born Chinese. Barely speak much Cantonese or Taishanese. No Mandarin whatsoever. Would love to spend time in China/Taiwan.

    I can speak Spanish better than Chinese… strange, no? I just get more practice with friends.

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    Lina — 5/23/09 @ 10:52 am

    Mandarin – I’m moving to BJ in September, so am looking to learn some Mandarin before then. This would be perfect!

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    Danielle — 5/23/09 @ 10:59 am

    Chinese, please!

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    Tanya — 5/23/09 @ 11:59 am

    Spanish would be lovely, thank you!