A recent article on the linguistics blog Language Log entitled On Learning Mandarin in America raises some interesting issues. The author, Victor Mair, discusses the experiences of some Chinese American parents who tried hard to raise their daughters to be fluent (as well as literate) in Mandarin, but obtained very mediocre results.
Victor Mair blames the […]
Archive for May, 2006
Special Announcement for ChinesePod Users in Shanghai
Published by May 29th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 0 CommentsLive in the Shanghai area? Learning Mandarin with ChinesePod? Would like to have your name printed in a newspaper? You are in luck. The Shanghai Daily is working on a story about ChinesePod. The journalist writing the story would like to connect with a few of our users in the Shanghai area to find […]
Here’s what’s coming up this week:
Monday: Intermediate - My Boss Was Fired!
Tuesday: Newbie - What’s His Name?
Wednesday: Advanced - The Monkey King
Newbie: Phone Calls
Elementary: This Room Is Too Small
…now, while I can’t give away which show it is, I can tell you that in one of them, Jenny breaks out into an impromptu cover version […]
There have been some changes to the weekend time slots starting with Buzzwords. Buzzwords was a podcast we published every Saturday in cooperation with Shanghai Daily. As some of you have already noticed we are no longer producing the Buzzwords podcast. Similar material is covered in the Word on the Street podcast we are […]
The ChinesePod weblog is an important part of everything we do here at ChinesePod. The Weblog is a place where we share ideas, answer questions and gather feedback, and have a little fun (pictures, video hotpot, etc.). We encourage (read require) all of the people involved with ChinesePod to participate in the Weblog. […]
Here’s an interesting blog post about the web as the ‘future of learning’. It’s written by a professor Charles Nelson at Kean University. He quotes from a Deloitte report called “Eye to the future”, which includes a look at how technology will change education (and other things):
Although the report says the teacher of 2010 won’t […]
As China becomes a global power the Chinese language will assume a greater global significance. That significance will extend over business, trade, culture and other areas. But will the Chinese language ever reach the type of influence that English now has? Will Mandarin ever become a lingua franca?
After the year 1600, the […]
Ok, so as some users have pointed out there hasn’t been a clear place for users to ask general questions so we’ve added this category for you to do just that. Hopefully we will be able to find them easier here and get back to you quicker and without going off topic in the other […]
As an English teacher in Hangzhou, China, one of the questions Chinese college students most often asked me was, “how can I improve my spoken English?” As a member of the ChinesePod team and student of applied linguistics, learners frequently ask me, “how can I improve my spoken Chinese?” Unfortunately, the are no easy answers […]
This is kind of weird - it’s an abandoned amusement park in Sichuan. I’ve seen some of these types of white elephants here. You’d wonder who goes to the trouble of putting together so much absurdity without anyone stopping them. Often you just coem across the things in the middle of nowhere. Fascinating.
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