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Today I took a trip to Wulai Village which the home of the Atayal aboriginal tribe. The village is in the mountains and is famous for its hot springs and mountain hikes. You can get there by taking the MRT transit system to Xindian station then transferring to a bus. The entire trip is only about 40 minutes from the city center!

While many people believe that Mandarin Chinese is the hardest language in the world the basic sentence structure and grammar is actually EASY and follows a similar pattern to English: Subject, Verb, Object. There are some tricky sentence structures that come up but generally grammar is one of the easiest parts of learning the Chinese language.

Our example of a Subject, Verb, Object sentence is: I eat food, wǒ chīfàn (我吃饭). "Wǒ" is the subject, I, "chī" is the verb, eat, and "fàn" is the object, food. The character fàn (饭) literally means cooked rice or meal but actually refers to food in general!

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