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Language learning is a lifelong habit. My first language is Chinese Mandarin, and I learned English in school. Growing up in Asia, I found it difficult to maintain my learning habits after graduating due to a lack of motivation. While numerous exams encouraged me to study, I didn’t have the freedom to explore and shape
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Managing a vast collection of academic references can be overwhelming—especially when reading the same paper multiple times or struggling to connect ideas across sources. While some may rely on memory, most researchers benefit from a more structured and efficient approach. After a decade of exploring various methods, I adopted the Zettelkasten system using Zotero for
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The GuZheng is an Asian box zither, specifically a Chinese zither, sometimes referred to as just Zheng. In Chinese Mandarin, 古(Gu) 箏(Zheng) represents a specific musical instrument, where the first character, Gu, means old and ancient, and the second one, Zheng, is the name of a string instrument. The structure of GuZheng is shown below[^1]
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