For content, it offers some of the flashiest Chinese-language material on the Internet.

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English-language material is overpriced and understocked.

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Language is the one material barrier that remains.

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Poetry is the most common way, because the material of poetry is the stream of language that is constantly going on in our heads.

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The indoor part of the complex is heavy on archival material and is only good if you know the language.

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Medieval language is dense with abbreviations, because writing material was expensive and books could be published only by copying.

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The Berlin-based startup's high quality app is the first educational application with both comprehensive and affordable learning material for iPad users that facilitates entertaining and multi-media language learning any time, any place.

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The material needs that are fulfilled by good brands are only excuses to play language games that picture things, not as they are, but as they ought to be.

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Some (like the Whittalls) retained British nationality over generations of Ottoman life, and it is their English-language diaries, letters and documents that provide Mr Milton with his best material.

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"Basic material wealth is a necessity, " observed Zhou, executive editor of the English-language newspaper, China Daily.

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