This is certainly a more modest event than the launch of the iPhone (and we hope we don’t steal too much of Steve Jobs’ thunder), but we are excited to launch our own mobile initiative today. Premium users can now access a variety of learning tools at m.spanishsense.com, and m.chinesepod.com.
The mobile sites provide…
a) Discussion, Dialogue, […]
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Learn Spanish and Chinese with the iPhone
Published by June 29th, 2007 in Features and Mobile learning. 42 CommentsLee’s latest comments on m-learning have taken the discussion in a slightly technical direction, and covered some of the current obstacles to a good mobile web experience. It seems like a good opportunity then to explain why we think this is about to change, and to discuss some of the technical choices we’ve made.
The mobile […]
What with us being in China, and you all being scattered around the globe, timezones have presented a bit of an issue for the Practice service. With a bit of flexibility we’ve always been able to schedule sessions, but we knew eventually the service would need to be offered 24 hours a day. We’re happy […]
Learning with an iPod full of lessons offers tremendous benefits; freedom, convenience, efficient use of dead time, etc. I’m sure we can all remember our personal ‘epiphany’ moments, when we realized how valuable learning by podcast can be. That said, the iPod’s lack of a network connection means it is still fairly limited as a […]
We have retested the torrent file, and it’s working great. To download a torrent file, you need a BitTorrent client (for example, BitComet or Azureus).
After your BitTorrent client is installed, your system should recognize the torrent filetype. Click on the link below and open the file with your BitTorrent client. That will get the download […]
Hi guys,
We’re looking for Chinese teachers who live in Shanghai to join our Practice Plan team (formerly known as the 8 week program, sometimes called Octagon, etc). We want to talk to you if you are enthusiastic, experienced, passionate, and an awesome Mandarin teacher. Are you such a person?
Alternatively, do you have a […]
What is the ideal lesson graphic?
With the launch of V3, we got one message loud and clear: the ideal lesson graphic is not a random stock photo. Fair enough. It’s not that we’re stock photo aficionados; in this case using stock photos was the best way to get the graphics all done for the crossover […]
Later today we will move this blog over the Praxis Language.
We’re doing this to simplify things. I will blog at the new url and both SpanishSense and ChinesePod will link to it. My posts there will concern the broader issues - learning, web 2.0, linguistics, etc. For Chinese-specific items, I’ll post in the ‘Connect’ […]
What does ‘learning on your terms’ really mean?
Published by May 8th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 26 CommentsWe’ve been busy over at Praxis Language, talking about, amongst other things, the meaning behind the slogan Learning on your terms. Link.
Ken Carroll
Here’s something we haven’t talked about for a while: Why we’re all learning Chinese.
There are lots of new people entering the community since V3. I’m seeing some new ideas and attitudes - particularly in the ‘Connect’ section. Some people arrive here on a mission: they were already determined to learn Mandarin before […]
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