I just found a copy of an old book, Fun with Chinese Characters. I highly recommend it - if you don’t kniow it already. It has colorful and interesting insights into dozens of characters, with the kind of background that makes them memorable.
The author is Tan Huay Peng, who is (or was) I […]
Archive for May, 2006
Today’s lesson concerns business, and so I have some some business related items to share with you.
The first one is this businessweek podcast. In it, Jack Welch talks about deciding whether or not to go invest in business in China. (He also talks aboput a non-China issue - the role of candour in […]
We will be making changes to the notification email we send out every day Monday to Friday. Instead of attaching the PDF transcript to the notification email, the notification email will contain a hyperlink to the location on ChinesePod.com where the transcript can be found. Clicking on the hyperlink will open the transcript […]
Will Richardson
As one of the leading lights in adopting web 2.0 technologies into the classroom, Will Richardson has been way ahead of the curve. (The guy introduced blogging into his classrooms in 2002!) Will has developed some deep insights about the meeting of education and technology and he has written a […]
Last week we migrated ChinesePod.com to a new server environment better able to manage the increasing amount of traffic created by our growing community of learners. Despite our best efforts the upgrade negatively affected some of our users. And for this we would like to sincerely appologise. We used a local company Sun DNS for […]
You chaps may start to see comments and feedback here and elswhere from Rian. He’s the new intern. He’s tech savvy and keen to get involved with solving your usage problems. Give him a big welcome, then load him up with questions!!!
Ken
We have just added a new feature that we hope will make ChinesePod easier to use. You can now listen to the audio lessons without leaving the website. Simply click on the Play Now button below the lesson pod description. The audio lesson will begin playing within a few seconds directly from […]
Sorry, was out sick yesterday-here’s what’s coming up:
Monday - Newbie: How Are You/Good Morning
Tuesday - Adv: Mathematics
Wednesday - Elem: Where’s My Class?
Thursday - Business Practice
Friday - Newbie - Talking to Kids
Thanks!
Aric
My Course will allow you to customize your own syllabus ‘on your terms’
Published by May 13th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 8 CommentsFor some time we’ve been working on a plan that we’ve come to call ‘My Course’. The idea behind ‘My Course’ is to allow ChinesePod users to create and track the progress of a personalized study plan.
We see My Course as one more step in enabling learners to study on their own terms. Regardless […]
I’d like to create a ‘blogroll’ of people who are describing (in their blogs) their Mandarin learning experiences. We already have contact with some people who fit this description, for example ‘Learning Chinese’, and ‘Mandarin Student’ (otherwise known as ‘Chris’).
If you write a blog that focuses on this topic, or if your […]
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