“I think I know what I’m talking about.”
I just watched Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth with my daughter (remarkable because there aren’t many grown up movies you can watch with a 7 year-old these days). We both liked it. Afterwards, I did a quick search and found this very interesting link at Frog […]
Archive for July, 2006
Where y’all from?
Published by July 27th, 2006 in Learning Chinese and About ChinesePod. 15 Comments Even here.
In all ChinesePod has learners in over 100 countries. You can probably guess the obvious ones - US, UK China, UK, Germany, etc. However, you might be surprised to know that ChinesePod has subscribers in places like North Korea and the Vatican City. Here’s a list of some interesting spots that where […]
The Big Brain Strikes Again
Published by July 27th, 2006 in Learning Chinese and About ChinesePod. 14 CommentsIt’s been a great week for discussion and debate. I have all of you, the Big Brain, to thank for some tremendous ideas and suggestions. Here are just a few of the things I’ve learned this week from the Big Brain:
- Some people actually want the ‘brute force’ approach to language learning. Now, I have […]
Service Disruption Report - Thursday, July 27th
Published by July 27th, 2006 in Support and News. 2 CommentsPlease be advised that ChinesePod.com experienced a service disruption on Thursday, July 27th that impacted our database records from the 12 hour period starting 6pm Wednesday, July 26th, to 11am Thursday, July 27th Shanghai/Beijing Time. Any changes that occurred during this period have been deleted. Affected areas of the website include comments (weblog […]
…a member of her chambers was in court one Monday morning when the judge said,
“I’m afraid we’ll have to adjourn the case. I’ve written my judgement out, but left it in my cottage in Devon and I can’t get it sent here until tomorrow.”
“Fax it up, my Lord”, the helpful barrister suggested, to which […]
Pronunciation 2: Clearing up some definitions
Published by July 26th, 2006 in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL) and Pronunciation. 22 CommentsClearly, there is some confusion about some of the concepts in the first post. Let me clarify a couple of things:
- First of all, no one is arguing that poor pronunciation is good. Of course we must try to get every learner’s pronunciation right as early as possible. The question here is when […]
It’s time to start that discussion on pronunciation
Published by July 25th, 2006 in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL) and Pronunciation. 43 CommentsIs pronunciation just physiology?
It seems to me that no area of language learning prompts as much debate and misunderstanings as pronunciation. I have a lot of ideas to share on the topic. So many, in fact, that I’ll have to break my ideas down into parts. Here is the first part.
Over the years, pronunciation […]
More insights into Asian learning/teaching styles over at John Biesnecker’s blog.
Meanwhile, John Pasden is learning Korean! Just like that!
Ken Carroll
I thought so. You may, therefore, be interested in this article: Chinese site launches marriage for asexuals
I must warn you that I tried (and tried) but I couldn’t find a link to the actual site - the article doesn’t provide one for some reason.
Ken Carroll
Quote of the week
Published by July 24th, 2006 in Learning Chinese and About the Chinese language. 3 CommentsHere is Lantian, at his iconoclastic best:
I firmly believe that all the exercises in a classroom are a diversion, a deception, a crutch to the actual development of the language in one’s brain. Whatever it takes to think a thought and use the target language to express that thought is going to build the language. […]
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