On Saturday the 24th of June, ChinesePod.com will host a free training seminar for Mandarin teachers and private tutors. The training session is available to any teacher with a basic teaching qualification or at least 1 year of teaching experience, and is completely free. The training will include: teaching techniques that are suited to foreign […]
Archive for June, 2006
Training for Mandarin Teachers and Private Tutors
Published by June 21st, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 3 Comments What’s his name in Chinese?
Am I the only one or is it really difficult to follow football commentary in Chinese? I watched a couple of World Cup games but was pretty much lost in terms of the commentary. I thought that the context would make it quite easy to understand, but in fact, […]
I just got back from Ireland. Unfortunately, I had to go back to bury my father, who passed away on June 6th, so I have been off the scene for 3 weeks.
A number of things strike me on my return. On the broadest level, I think that what we’re doing here is pretty original, […]
We at ChinesePod have covered the topic of shopping from various angles and for different levels. Today at Sinosplice I posted some scans of real Shanghai supermarket ads. I thought ChinesePod readers might find these interesting. Take a look, and if you have any questions about what you see, leave a comment here (not on […]
According to an article recently published in the Shanghai Daily, the China Confucius Foundation will publish a standard portrait of the ancient philosopher later this year in order to boost his profile worldwide.
The CCF unveiled a draft sculpture of Confucius yesterday in Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong Province, to solicit suggestions for the final […]
Grammar Tags: more than just tags
You can now create your own custom lists in My Course - a Premium ChinesePod feature located inside the Learning Center. This new feature will help you organize your personal study program.
Requirements:
To create a list you will first need to add at least one lesson pod to My Course. This can be […]
has not been pOsted for good Reason-there’s a feW surprises there for you.
Not hard to gUess, I’m sure-especially if you’re one of the many that contributeD to the pLethora of emails Concerning a recent Phenomenon.
Go on-try to sort this one out.
Aric
The weblog up and disappeared! Actually, we just moved the weblog along with the wiki to the new and improved Community section of ChinesePod.com. We are also happy to announce that the Community section will also host the ChinesePod Forum. Marc & Bazza are busy with the move and will have the Forum […]
Several weeks back we started publishing lesson plans as part of our daily lesson pods. Our lesson plans are designed to help you structure face-to-face practice sessions with a native Mandarin speaker our fellow learner.
ChinesePod users working or traveling in China have opportunities to talk with native Mandarin speakers as soon as they open […]
Recent Comments