There are lively integrated games associated with all the Mandarin lessons in an interactive online environment Kung Fu Kingdom, where students can practice their new skills and play games built on a mixture of spoken Chinese and Chinese characters.
However, scholars argue it is different from the mixture of spoken Javanese and Malay that is perceived to be "spoken exclusively by ethnic Chinese".
Somehow the gardener becomes a political insider himself, with his every utterance - a mixture of television speak and the earthy wisdom of gardeners - regarded as sage and helpful advice.
These early poems lack the mellifluous quality of Lamartine's Poetical Meditations, but by the time of the Odes et ballades (1826) there are already hints of the Hugoesque mixture: intimate poetry, speaking of family relationships and problems of the ego, a prophetic and visionary tone, and an eagerness to explore a wide range of poetic techniques.
When asked, Ledare can retreat into a mixture of conceptual art speak, as in "the extremely open and intimate relationship I have with my mother... was developed through the work.
In a chance encounter with Ms. Tsukada in 2005, Mr. Moran found the muse who enabled his current work: spare, intimate sequences of memories, recounted and enacted with an intricate mixture of recorded music, spoken word, choreographed movement and video.
Seven focus groups with parents were conducted in a mixture of first language spoken and English.
With a few bit-part exceptions – wives and secretaries – the characters are indistinguishable men of a certain age and class who talk in a pompous mixture of services jargon, "spy" speak ("The place is tight as a drum") and Dylan Thomas pastiche: "So, my old fellow traveller, I poked around and blew air on to the embers, to see what would glow in the dark".
The star of the evening was Michel, from Brooklyn, who, with a marvelous mixture of modesty and alertness, spoke of his interest in protest activism.
