This is from an article on NPR:
Podcasters Push the Limits in China
Like everything else Internet-related in China, podcasts are exploding in popularity. From film parodies to pornography, audio and video downloads are pushing the boundaries of the law and decency.
Irishman Ken Carroll started podcasting Chinese lessons just over five months ago. His learn-with-Ken […]
Archive for March, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI Gets an iPod
Vatican Radio employees gave Pope Benedict XVI a new iPod nano loaded with special Vatican Radio programming and classical music to honor his first visit to broadcasting headquarters.
Vatican Radio offers podcasts in eight languages, so the pope can now plug in and import the broadcasting service’s audio files.
Pope Benedict visited […]
Jenny and I have experimented with some different formats for an advanced feed and I think we now have one that we’re happy with. I believe we can launch it next week - possibly on Tuesday. I won’t participate in the advanced lessons (other than to listen and learn) lest my tones […]
We’ve been asked to present at the Fourth New York International Conference on Teaching Chinese, which is sponsored by the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York, in May. The conference will be held at Hunter College, at CUNY.
In attendance will be 150 plus teachers of Chinese and they have […]
夫妻相 (fu1qi1xiang4)
husband-wife looks
In the west, people say if a couple live together long enough, the husband and wife tend to resemble each other and even become look-alike. In China, many believe that the marriage will last longer between a man and a woman who share some matching or similar facial features. So, the husband-wife looks […]
A number of new additions to the site:
New Flashcards
First, we have created a new main tab item called “Vocab Builder” which will contain all the glossary, word bank, etc related items. For the Flashcards, we have updated the design and added in a number of user-requested features, such as a counter, first-last & next-previous buttons. […]
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