It’s been a while since we had an open thread. The floor is yours.
What’s on your mind?
Ken Carroll
Archive for January, 2007
There is a second meaning to the word ‘praxis’ that I think is impoirtant. In this second sense, praxis means ’shared practice’, as, for example, when communities of practice bring together learners and practitioners to develop and share usful learning insights. I believe this is as relevant to the Praxis Language vision as the first […]
I wrote a post on ChinesePod last night about the plan to launch a Spanish product. The response was good. Lots of good comments on how there is no one single concept of Spanish, for example. Many of the people who responded are indeed interested in learning Spanish. I guess if you speak the […]
I have some news I want to share with you. Pretty soon (within 3 months) we plan to launch the Spanish equivalent of ChinesePod. That’s right, we’re going to teach Spanish (through the medium of English, that is). We’ve had the idea on and off since last year, but in recent weeks we’ve committed to […]
via Wikipedia…
Praxis is the process by which a theory or lesson becomes part of lived experience. Rather than a lesson being simply absorbed at the intellectual level in a classroom, ideas are tested and experienced in the real world, followed by an opportunity for reflective contemplation. In this way, abstract concepts are connected with lived […]
Over the coming weeks and months I’ll be sharing my ideas on how to learn Spanish. Not that I know much about learning Spanish - in fact I haven’t even started yet. But maybe that’s why it could be interesting.
I have a fair bit of knowledge of several other languages, including French and Italian, […]
The character display issues have been solved!
Published by January 29th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 7 CommentsAllow me to extend my gratitude to the heroic comrades on the ChinesePod forum. These brave men and women are at the forefront of the battle against the evil forces of spam and wacky character display.
Here they are:
1. Colin Jacobs aka “Coljac”, creator of the ” Hanzi Helper”
2. Anne Matthias (Anne M.) […]
Lessons Learned 1: Strive for redundancy
Published by January 29th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 11 CommentsI want to post a series of learning insights that have emerged for me as important in the last year. The first one concerns the issue of redundancy.
As it happens, ChinesePod learner, ‘kmk’, picked up on this issue today. Let me first explain my view of what it is.
By redundancy I refer […]
This interview with linguist, Steven Pinker, has some very interesting stuff on language and metaphor, for those of you who may be linguistically inclined.
Ken Carroll
The spam continues:Where’s the respect?
Published by January 27th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 12 CommentsA lot of spam on the site today, for some reason. Meanwhile, the Google alert spamming idiocy continues in the blogosphere. I mentioned this approach a few days ago: the spammer sets a Google alert for the term learning Chinese. Whenever he sees a blog post on the topic he goes in and spams the […]
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