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 ## Tokenization
 
-Each Chinease character in the text is regarded as a token, so I don't use a tokenizer in this project. IMHO, a Chinese character is not a "letter" - it's more like a word or subword. Therefore, each Chinese character should be treated as a token.
+Each Chinese character in the text is regarded as a token, so I don't use a tokenizer in this project. IMHO, a Chinese character is not a "letter" - it's more like a word or subword. Therefore, each Chinese character should be treated as a token.
 
 ## Shuffling & Sampling
 
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 ## Contact
 
-Interested in discussion? Just connect with me and let's chat!
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+Interested in discussion? Just connect with me and let's chat!