An articles in the Bangkok Post talks about how Mandarin and Thai share so many similarities:
Because of our language structure, we Thais have an advantage in learning Chinese. The advantage lies simply in that both languages have the same sentence structure, so that we do not have to worry about things like making sure we […]
Archive for November, 2005
“A guide to success in China, by Americans who live there”
Published by November 18th, 2005 Uncategorizedin . 11 CommentsSome excerpts from a USA Today article:
BEIJING — The number of Americans living in China has reached a historic high of 110,000. They are teachers, hairdressers, diplomats, travelers, students and business fat cats. There’s even a bluegrass banjo player and singer who is scheduled to perform in Mandarin here Friday night.
What kind of advice […]
Over the next few weeks I’ll try to pass on some useful blogs from China. Here’s one that concerns itself with the Chinese media. The tone is cynical, but it often has interesting insights.
Today, there’s a slightly unusual post about Qing Shi Huang and how he banned books in China 2,000 years […]
How to Learn Chinese in 2,200 Not-So-Easy Lessons
Published by November 17th, 2005 Uncategorizedin . 2 CommentsI received this article today. It’s from the Washington Post, but it’s no longer available online so I reproduce the whole thing here:
How to Learn Chinese in 2,200 Not-So-Easy Lessons
I spent several years, and some of your tax dollars, trying to learn Chinese, so I need to say something about a new campaign to get […]
The foreigners here at ChinesePod in Shanghai also try to continually improve their Chinese whenever they get the chance. The HSBC Champions golf tournament over the weekend provided just such an opportunity.
Terms we will be adding to our personal word banks include:
高尔夫球 (gao1 er3 fu1 qiu2)
Meaning: golf
They transliterated golf into ‘gao er fu’ […]
Somehow, ChinesePod has touched a nerve with people. After about 6 eweeks we’ve had something like 150,000 lesson downloads. This has piqued the interest of quite a few people, and I’ve been invited to share what we’ve learned at certain venues over the next few weeks.
I’ll be speaking at the Ad Tech conference […]
This is your chance to create a thread on any relevant issue - concerning China, learning Chinese, visiting China, whatever. You can ask questions, make statements, etc.
Ken
Hello,
My name is Patrick and I discovered your podcast on the Yahoo site. It’s absolutely amazing. My friend and
I are learning Chinese from your lessons. I hope your company does really well; as soon as I get a bit
better with listening to all that ‘input’, I’ll probably subscribe to your service.
I have a suggestion for […]
A user request:
你好 Ken, Jenny and readers alike
Great service! I absolutely love it, and I have a suggestion。 Perhaps you could make a lesson about discussing the weather? I’d appreciate it a lot。
Thank you in advance! 谢谢你！
再见
Daniel
荷兰
We’ve also had a request to do larger numbers. Good suggestions. We’re on the case.
Ken Carroll
凯恩
I’ve talked before about how there is no real tradition of teaching Chinese as a Second Language. Here’s an article from the People’s Daily that puts it into perspective: There are only 3,000 ‘qualified’ CSL teachers in all China.
It should be noted that these fledgling CSL qualifications, are issued by the Ministry of […]
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