Iron and Silk tiě yǔ sī 铁与丝. It is based off the book Salzman personally authored about his own trip to Changsha, China in 1982, where he spent two years teaching English, studying chinese, and learning from his Kung Fu master, Pan Qingfu.

01 Can U Feel It.

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A pervasive lack of foreign language capacity threatens the security and economic well-being of the United States. Breaking the Language Barrier 打破語言障礙. 8220;If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. Nelson Mandela, the first black President of South Africa; the 1993 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.