From SignOnSandiego.com
As China emerges as economic superpower, more in county seek to learn difficult dialect
When the San Diego Hua Xia Chinese School opened eight years ago in La Jolla, it had 45 students.
Today, about 1,000 youths learn Chinese through the weekend program, which is held in rented classrooms at Miramar College and branch locations […]
Archive for December, 2005
Here’s a useful little summary of the move towards privatization in China:
Drastic privatization of Chinese companies
The Chinese private sector expanded 50% between 2001 and 2004 when the number of private companies reached 1.9 million according to a release this week from the Chinese Statistics Office.
This confirms the drastic expansion of the sector. The […]
David asked about a hotel near the meet-up. (Yes, people are flying in from all over the world for this one.) One possibility is the City Hotel. A double roon with breakfast costs 580 yuan per night. (Around $70.)
I’m looking out for more.
Ken Carroll 凯恩
Meet Ken & Jenny in Shanghai. December 14th 7pm @ Big Bamboo.
12月14日晚上7点在上海的Big Bamboo酒吧与Ken和Jenny进行一次面对面的交流会
Interested in podcasting or learning Chinese? Would you like to meet Ken, Jenny and the rest of the ChinesePod team? Do you listen to ChinesePod in the shower? If you answered yes to question three please stop reading…
对播客或者中文学习感兴趣吗？你想与Ken，Jenny和ChinesePod其他成员见面吗？你收听ChinesePod节目吗？如果你的回答是“是”，那么请立刻参与我们的活动。
Ok. The rest […]
One of the more rewarding things here at ChinesePod is the wealth of user feedback we have been getting. To further support this we have (1) brought out the most recents blog comments in the menu area to further build the conversation and (2) added a wiki to the site. We are not […]
I’ve written some articles/posts over at the On Demand Training blog about how podcasting will change the nature of the language training business. What we’re doing here is pretty revolutionary, because it creates a wholly new supply chain/value chain and a new way to consume training. It’s a kind of web 2.0 solution whose time […]
One of the more frequent requests here at ChinesePod is for us to provide practice teachers, study partners or language exchanges either to meet in person or just converse using VoIP. We think it would be rather difficult for us to manage all this, so instead we have decided to help facilitate this kind […]
New Difficulty Levels
Published by December 6th, 2005 in Product Features and About ChinesePod. 5 CommentsApologies for doing this as you may have to unsubscribe, then re-subscribe to ChinesePod in iTunes to straighten everything out, but we have discovered a need to separate out 2 levels of intermediate podcasts.
The 4 new levels will be:
菜鸟 - ‘cai4 niao3′ or literally vegetable bird. This will represent the lowest level. The previous beginner […]
From William
I have assembled some more points for my wish list regarding the next version of the ChinesePod website which I know you are working on, as well as one or two more general thoughts.
I like to go over old lessons, but I find that navigating from one to another is laborious. Would it […]
I just spent a couple of hours helping my 6 year-old daughter with her homework. Yes, I said, a couple of hours. The kids get that much homework here.
I’ve also been looking through her Mandarin textbook and there’s some good stuff inside it. Lots of little rhymes and stuff. (Why are there so many […]
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