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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
Yao Ming
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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
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Basketball Player
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Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
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