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Photo: The Lego versions of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in the Hollywood blockbuster Titanic. Morgan Spence, 15, from Scotland, spent three weeks putting together a video of scenes he re-created from Hollywood classics such as Dirty Dancing, Singing in the Rain and Pulp Fiction.

Bilingual: If you speak to Benjamin K. Hammer on the phone, you would think you were talking to a person who had lived in a Chinese-language environment since childhood, as he uses Mandarin's four tones correctly. But Hammer started learning Mandarin when he was a high school senior in San Jose, California. Hammer is one of the US citizens who show great interest in Chinese culture. In addition to Mandarin, he learned kung fu from a Chinese teacher when he was a student at American University in Washington. He got his Chinese name, Meng Weilong, from his kung fu teacher.

Buzzword: "Hired WeChat readers" are those who are paid by operators of public accounts on WeChat, a mobile text and voice messaging communication service developed by Tencent, to boost the number of clicks on articles published on their platforms in the hope of attracting advertisers. Most of the hired readers belong to the "water army", so-called because they are willing to "flood" the Internet for whoever is willing to pay. Some college students are also taking this job during their vacations.