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		<title>Is the Problem Your English Level or Your Education Level?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Antonio Graceffo
A Khmer student wrote to me on youtube and asked me to produce videos about how to read English language newspapers.
“I&#8217;d like to ask you to make videos how to read newspaper and translate it from English to Khmer. I Khmer and I having a problem to understand English phrases.” Wrote the student.
Language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brooklyn Monk in Asia: Exploring Religion</title>
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Brooklyn Monk, Antonio Graceffo has been in Asia studying martial arts, languages and religion for nearly nine years. This video was made in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where Antonio was attending classes about Islam. He grabbed two Chinese cameramen, one protestant and one Buddhist, and headed out to explore many of the religions of Southeast [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speakingadventure.com/exploring-religion</link>
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		<title>Muay Thai Goes 3D</title>
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The punches came right off the screen and someone all the way back in the cheap seats got a nose bleed from a kick in the face.
The only thing more exciting than a martial arts fight is a martial arts fight in 3D.
Al Caudullo, of 3DGuy.tv and Exploreworldtv, and Ric Lawes, of Location Thailand, teamed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speakingadventure.com/muay-thai-goes-3d</link>
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		<title>Martial Arts 3D video Filming: It’s a whole new art for both fighting and filming.</title>
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by Antonio Graceffo
Watching the proof of our 3D martial arts fight on a video monitor was incredible. The spinning, dancing, battling images popped off the screen like holograms in some advanced video game, but it wasn’t a random CGI image, it was me. And it was one of the coolest projects I had ever been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling, Doing TV and Still Broke (Living the Dream, hoping I’ll wake up.)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Antonio Graceffo
A friend of mine told me he was on his way to Ohio and that he hated going. He wanted sympathy from me. Telling a New Yorker that you are going anywhere, except back to your own apartment in New York, will normally evoke sympathy.
But in this mixed up, upside down world where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speakingadventure.com/traveling-doing-tv-and-still-broke-living-the-dream-hoping-i%e2%80%99ll-wake-up</link>
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		<title>Modern Poverty in the Richest Nation on Earth</title>
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By Antonio Graceffo
When I was a financial planner in New York City, I reviewed the finances of nearly 1,000 individuals and small businesses. While there were people who made bad decisions, stupid decisions, or created debt to finance consumption, the bottom line was that most of them simply didn’t earn enough to live. If they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speakingadventure.com/modern-poverty-in-the-richest-nation-on-earth</link>
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		<title>Global Tribe: In Memory of Dan Eldon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A collaboration between Sam Stavros and Antonio Graceffo
Twenty-two year-old Reuters photographer, Dan Eldon and was stoned to death in Mogadishu, Somalia. In addition to covering conflicts in Africa, he personally organized aid and relief missions to help the starving people. Dan’s mother. Kahy and sister, Amy published his diaries and art work in a book, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speakingadventure.com/global-tribe-in-memory-of-dan-eldon</link>
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		<title>The Karate Kid, Then and Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Antonio Graceffo
I just saw “The Karate Kid 2010” tonight in Bangkok, and I feel like I am 43 going on 16. I have one of those feel-great movie highs that prompts you to make life altering decisions, which you will never follow through on when you wake up with a hangover. But for those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speakingadventure.com/the-karate-kid-then-and-now</link>
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		<title>Warrior Odyssey: The Travels of a Martial Artist in Asia</title>
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Buy Warrior Odyssey on Amazon
Following the author’s landmark decision to quit his job on Wall Street and become a martial arts student, Warrior Odyssey captures one man’s ongoing adventure across the Far East.
Beginning in Taiwan, this autobiography documents how the protagonist learned the Chinese language, kung fu, and &#8220;twe so&#8221; (push hands), then journeyed on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speakingadventure.com/warrior-odyssey-the-travels-of-a-martial-artist-in-asia</link>
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		<title>Interpreting and Communicating: Necessary skills in Foreign Language Learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Interview Antonio Graceffo by Inga Yadell
1.	Tips on interpreting a message in another language
Most people think that being a good translator or interpreter is based on having a good command of the foreign language. While it is true that you need to have the linguistic skills, you must also have the cultural understanding to interpret what [...]]]></description>
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