Comments on: One year ago today http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/10/27/one-year-ago-today/ Learning on Your Terms Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:41:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Lantian http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/10/27/one-year-ago-today/#comment-14735 Lantian Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:52:47 +0000 http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/10/27/one-year-ago-today/#comment-14735 WAYBACK machine - It's the holidays, almost New Year and a little reflection going on here. So I took a little Internet ride to the past and looked at what Cpod used to look like, take a look: http://web.archive.org/web/20051013082755/http://chinesepod.com/ http://www.archive.org/ It's like looking at old photo albums and thinking, how could I have worn THOSE clothes, and the hair?! The hair doo. There was one little component in that old Cpod site which I think would be nice to have back, I don't think we need such an extended list, but a daily top five would be refreshing. BTW, quite satisfyingly -- I know all those words now! It also would be nice to have a daily five review words, or maybe Connie's extended vocab in the text/description file of the Cpod casts for viewing on the iPod. ----------------------------- POPULAR THIS WEEK (Left-click on words below to add them to your Word Bank.) * 干什么？(16) * 如果(16) * 天气(15) * 明天(14) * 下雨(12) * 是(11) * 出去(11) 哪，Cpod 圣诞节老人带给我什么礼物啊？ WAYBACK machine - It’s the holidays, almost New Year and a little reflection going on here. So I took a little Internet ride to the past and looked at what Cpod used to look like, take a look:

http://web.archive.org/web/200.....sepod.com/
http://www.archive.org/

It’s like looking at old photo albums and thinking, how could I have worn THOSE clothes, and the hair?! The hair doo.

There was one little component in that old Cpod site which I think would be nice to have back, I don’t think we need such an extended list, but a daily top five would be refreshing. BTW, quite satisfyingly — I know all those words now!

It also would be nice to have a daily five review words, or maybe Connie’s extended vocab in the text/description file of the Cpod casts for viewing on the iPod.

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POPULAR THIS WEEK
(Left-click on words below to add them to your Word Bank.)

* 干什么？(16)
* 如果(16)
* 天气(15)
* 明天(14)
* 下雨(12)
* 是(11)
* 出去(11)

哪，Cpod 圣诞节老人带给我什么礼物啊？

]]> By: Richard Sharpe http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/10/27/one-year-ago-today/#comment-14734 Richard Sharpe Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:45:46 +0000 http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/10/27/one-year-ago-today/#comment-14734 I rather think that Dan Sperber has more interesting things to say about communications, although I do think that Pinker is interesting. Perhaps just as interesting is this recent Wired article on <a href="http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/blind_pr.html" rel="nofollow">Face Blindness</a> which provides tantalizing hints on just how hard-wired many aspects of our character is. I rather think that Dan Sperber has more interesting things to say about communications, although I do think that Pinker is interesting.

Perhaps just as interesting is this recent Wired article on Face Blindness which provides tantalizing hints on just how hard-wired many aspects of our character is.

]]> By: 海宁 / Henning http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/10/27/one-year-ago-today/#comment-14733 海宁 / Henning Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:27:31 +0000 http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/10/27/one-year-ago-today/#comment-14733 Just began reading Pinker' book "The language instinct". Eye-opener. And by far not only for learning a foreign language. Just began reading Pinker’ book “The language instinct”. Eye-opener. And by far not only for learning a foreign language.

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