The counter-argument to the Moser piece from Lily Chao:
Chinese grammar is much simpler if compared to that of the European languages. English speakers sometimes complain that languages like Spanish have a complicated grammar (masculine and feminine genders, verb conjugations, etc), whereas the Chinese language has little or no bound morphology and there are no grammatical […]
Archive for August, 2006
Chinese ain’t so difficult
Published by August 31st, 2006 in Learning Chinese and About ChinesePod. 38 CommentsVideo tour of the ChinesePod ‘factory’
Published by August 31st, 2006 in About ChinesePod. 24 CommentsIn case you’re interested, Jenny and Aric take you on a whirlwind tour of the factory today.
Ken Carroll
There are a number of podcasts out there based on the brilliant but wildly unsuccessful Firefly and Serenity TV series. One of them is Tales From The Verse. If you go to the shownotes you’ll see that ChinesePod is the official translator for the show!
Ken Carroll
This article has been around for some time, but it seems to be doing the reounds at the moment. A number of people referred it to me today.
Ken Carroll
Who is the sex blogger and how can he be stopped?
Published by August 29th, 2006 in Uncategorized and China. 16 CommentsA British sex blogger is terrorizing the city. Somebody please stop this man!
Sex blog triggers manhunt in Shanghai
Venkatesan Vembu
Monday, August 28, 2006 23:50 IST
HONG KONG: Incensed netizens in Shanghai have launched a manhunt for a Western expatriate English tutor who posts a blog chronicling his sexual conquests with the city’s racy young […]
Update: THE VIDEO NOW WORKS! Welcome to the CPod Penitentiary, btw.
I mentioned a rambling description of ChinesePod that I did a couple of days ago. Here it is. I’d like to hear more about how you would describe CPod.
Ken Carroll
Karl Long, over at Experience Curve, has a good blog post called Uncommun Uses: Podcasting.
These technologies will eventually go mainstream. The question is, when?
Ken Carroll
ChinesePod in Red Herring magazine
Published by August 29th, 2006 in About ChinesePod and ChinesePod Media Coverage. 4 CommentsHere is an article about ChinesePod from Red Herring magazine. I think the author, Kaiser Kuo, does a good job here of getting across the essentials, especially since we only just spoke yesterday!
Ken Carroll
According to Michael Arrington at Tech Crunch, Google is now openly attacking Microsoft’s office suite with its new apps.
Who will win this battle? Who should win this battle? What do y’all think?
Ken Carroll
So, how do you like the new home page design?
There were several reasons behind it. First off, the new shaded boxes make it clear where one lesson ends and the next one begins. Secondly, we’ve got the links to the podcast directories to encourage people to use the subscription. (This kind of subscription will […]
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