I have learnt the announcement that the summer camp would be held in Singapore in the Internet. I am interesting in it.

I have a good command（掌握）of English，which enable me to communicate with friends from other part of the world without difficulty. Therefore，having a rich knowledge of Chinese culture，I will make more people to know our splendid culture. More importantly，I have strong belief that I will broaden my mind by learning about their cultures.

I’d appreciate it whether I could be accepted and I will value the chance to improve yourself. Looking forward to your early reply.

Yours，

Li Hua

It's not unusual for youth nowadays to speak more than one language, but 32-year-old Muhamed Mesic can communicate fluently in 56 different languages.

As a little boy, Muhamed 【小题1】（discover）to have an unusual talent for quickly learning to communicate in different languages. Once he was on vacation with his family in Greece, he was able to figure out 【小题2】 the locals were saying from the situation they were in.

But that was only the beginning of his journey to mastering as many languages 【小题3】 he could. When he was nine, he picked up Swedish from the Swedish soldiers in his town. Soon after, he went to Hungary and managed to learn Hungarian as well. And he 【小题4】（become） fluent in the Baltic language in just 2 weeks, with the help of YouTube and 43 cartoons.

Though having the great ability 【小题5】（learn）foreign languages quickly, Muhamed also devotes almost all of his time to 【小题6】（study） them. "The more languages you speak, the 【小题7】（easy） it is to learn new ones, because many of them have lots of 【小题8】（similar）, "he says.

Today, Muhamed speaks an 【小题9】（impress）56 different languages, from common ones like English or Portuguese, 【小题10】 Japanese and Georgian, and even languages that most of us have never even heard of, like Kinyarwanda or Quechua.

   Following Mo Yan's Nobel Prize , the usually silent Chinese literary circle got warmed up again. A Shanghai writer named Jin Yucheng surprised nearly everyone by making his novel full of Shanghai dialect.

Published in 2012, the 350,000-word Blossoms （Fan Hua） is a novel about the changes in Shanghai over 30 years, drawing clear images of the city through the stories of many common people. There is no main story like most novels, but every story in it could run independently. While putonghua is the standard choice for Chinese literature today, Jin's use of the Shanghai dialect appears both different and bold.

"I have seen too many novels that look similar to each other. Chinese literature is getting monotonous in both language and form. I want to be special with my own language, " Jin told the Global Times.

In the novel, Jin makes a breakthrough by mainly using dialogues to unfold various plots and represent typical characters on a daily basis. He also abandons the use of some punctuation like quotation marks （引号）, showing a return to the traditional Chinese huaben genre.

Since its publication, the book has been widely recommended on Sina Weibo with many netizens rating the novel high for its unique use of dialect and vivid description of life using plain speech.

Jin said that he got the idea of writing the novel while chatting in an online forum where people use the Shanghai dialect. The praise he received from the netizens encouraged him to continue writing the random stories.

"I'd like to see more writers to follow my lead. It will enrich our literature and make it diverse," he said.