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“English words made only from twenty-six characters? Are English a bit lazy or what? We have fifty thousand characters in Chinese.” quote by Xiaolu Guo — Download Open image

““English words made only from twenty-six characters? Are English a bit lazy or what? We have fifty thousand characters in Chinese.””

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