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Welp, you can't get more forcefully patriotic than this. This transcript of a student's classroom speech reads like a political essay and includes rousing images of soldiers, strong Chinese athletes and Chinese workers throwing off the yoke of imperialist might. This is probably upper intermediate level reading, but I'm classifying it as advanced, as the sentence structure really isn't very straightforward, and there are quite a few new words. <!--more-->

There's a saying in the third paragraph that makes no sense in English, only in Chinese. The saying is: '国家国家，有国才有家'. This translates to "Country, country, country first, then home." Doesn't mean much, does it? But we must examine the structure of the sentence to see that this is actually a play on words. The word for "country" is 国家.  国, by itself, means "country" or "kingdom". 家, by itself, means "home" or "family". Put them together, and you get the complete, proper word for "country". So the author is first saying the word "country" twice (国家国家), then the second part means "the word country is made up first of the character for country, THEN then character for 'home'", in other words, "you must have a country before you can have a home or family". This seems to also insinuate that "country should come before family".

The title of this speech is: 爱我中华

<a href="http://www.tom61.com/youxiuzuowen/xiaoxuewunianjizuowen/2011-08-18/1313632636230846.html">You can find the original here</a>

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詹天佑 - [pinyin]zhan1 tian1 you4[/pinyin] - Railroad engineer who constructed the first Chinese railroad built without foreign assistance
钱学森 - [pinyin]qian2 xue2 sen1[/pinyin] - Engineer, considered the father of Chinese rocketry
带 - [pinyin]dai4[/pinyin] - To take (someone) to do (something)
溜冰 - [pinyin]liu1 bing1[/pinyin] - Ice skating
溜冰场 - [pinyin]liu1 bing1 chang2[/pinyin] - Ice skating rink
溜冰鞋 - [pinyin]liu1 bing1 xie2[/pinyin] - Ice skates
摔倒 - [pinyin]shuai1 dao3[/pinyin] - To fall down
扶 - [pinyin]fu2[/pinyin] - Help someone up, to support with one's hand
连声 - [pinyin]lian2 sheng1[/pinyin] - Say repeatedly, say over and over
互相 - [pinyin]hu4 xiang1[/pinyin] - Each other, mutually
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敬爱的老师，亲爱的同学们: 大家好！

今天我演讲的题目是“爱我中华“

有两句话“生我者父母，养我者祖国．“ “国家国家，有国才有家．“ 我爱我的祖国，胜过爱我的一切！

每当阅读起爱国书籍，看到<strong>詹天佑</strong>，<strong>钱学森</strong>等这样爱祖国的人，放弃好的待遇，放弃好的前程，就是给那些瞧不起中国的帝国主义者一个有力的回击，他们用行动大声的说:“ 祖国，我爱您！“

每当看起爱国电影，看着英雄战士上战场为祖国，抛头颅，撒热血保卫边疆．一次次硝烟过去，战场上尸横遍野，那些快要死了的战士好象在说: “ 祖国，你永远在我心中！“ 

每当在荧屏上中国的奥运健儿 在比赛中夺得冠军时他们总是露着灿烂的笑容，身为祖国儿女的他们感到无比的自豪．升国旗时，他们流出滚滚热泪，望着五星红旗，心中在呼唤: “ 祖国，我为您争光了！“  

我们不能像勇士那样血撒战场，不能像伟人一样建设祖国．．．．．．我们现在应该好好学习，用智慧和知识武装自己长大以后报效祖国，大家要像周总理那样，为中华之崛起而读书！做一个有志向的人.
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Respected teacher, dear classmates, hello! 

The topic of my speech today is "Love Our China".

There are two sayings, "My mother and father birthed me, my country raised me." And "Country, country, you must have a country before you have a home." I love my motherland, it surpasses everything that I love! 

On every patriotic work, we see Zhan TianYou, Qian XueSen, and similar patriots, who gave up good pay, gave up good career prospects, to forcefully fight back against the imperialist countries who looked down on China. They used their actions to say loudly, "Motherland, I love you!" 

In every patriotic movie, we see heroic soldiers who lose their heads and sprinkled their blood on the battlefields for their motherlands to defend our borders, and when the gun smoke cleared, the battlefields were littered with corpses. It's as if those soldiers w  每当看起爱国电影，看着英雄战士上战场为祖国，抛头颅，撒热血保卫边疆．一次次硝烟过去，战场上尸横遍野，那些快要死了的战士好象在说: “ 祖国，你永远在我心中！“ 

每当在荧屏上中国的奥运健儿 在比赛中夺得冠军时他们总是露着灿烂的笑容，身为祖国儿女的他们感到无比的自豪．升国旗时，他们流出滚滚热泪，望着五星红旗，心中在呼唤: “ 祖国，我为您争光了！“  

我们不能像勇士那样血撒战场，不能像伟人一样建设祖国．．．．．．我们现在应该好好学习，用智慧和知识武装自己长大以后报效祖国，大家要像周总理那样，为中华之崛起而读书！做一个有志向的人.
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