It’s time for scheduled maintenance at ChinesePod. Tonight, November 19th, Shanghai time, ChinesePod.com will go down for several hours. When it returns, there may be a few small quirks which will be ironed out ASAP. Thank you for your patience and continued support!
Nov. 20 Update: We need to make some more changes today which necessitated […]
Archive for November, 2007
Scheduled Maintenance on ChinesePod, SpanishPod
Published by November 19th, 2007 in ChinesePod, News and SpanishPod. 17 CommentsIn grad school, they told us “you can’t teach people language; you can only put it out there for them to learn.” I wish I could attribute this quote, but Google is giving me nothing.
In any case, what’s behind this quote is a belief that language isn’t taught or learned; it’s not […]
XS2China: Communicating in a Mobile World
Published by November 13th, 2007 in ChinesePod, Innovation and Mobile learning. 1 CommentChinesePod users understand that learning Chinese is a fun and rewarding challenge. But what if you need to speak Chinese, like now? And you haven’t learned it at all yet? And the taxi driver is waiting for you to tell him where to go, in Chinese?
While in Amsterdam, co-founder and CEO Hank ran into some […]
Here’s a must-see video of Sir Ken Robinson’s speech at the TED conference. (Not sure if it’s from this year or last.) Sir Ken is a tremendously entertaining speaker and passionate advocate for re-thinking how our schools work. He argues, convincingly to my mind, that the traditional educational system, designed for another time and place, was designed […]
Audio interview on the ChinesePod approach
Published by November 5th, 2007 in ChinesePod in the media. 4 CommentsHere’s an audio interview I did last week, with the China Business Network.
The network was set up by my friend, Christine Lu. They have some really interesting stuff over there. Worth a visit.
Ken Carroll
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