We’re reviewed in Karriere Magazine today. If you read German, you can get the short version here, or you can run out and buy the magazine proper. The article is great - thorough, well-researched, and packed with details. And in order to make my day, they linked back - yeah! (They also review www.englishpod.com.)
Ken Carroll
Wow, that was spooky. I haven’t looked at German since a few pages of tourist sentences in 1980, but I could read that and pretty well “get the gist of it” - the whole podcast section. I can’t simply get the gist of any of the elementary Chinese lessons yet, even newbie ones are 90% mystery at first.
I’ve caught Spanish and even Pali words escaping out of my mouth when slow to find the Chinese word, but not German. Learning Chinese seems to be polishing up old language memories that I didn’t realise were ever acquired. Is that supposed to happen?
Anyway, it sounds like yet another great rap for ChinesePod, well done!
Fantastisch!!!
Nice to see that also non-english spoken media are interested into chinesepod developments. It is a good article, very positive.
AuntySue,
You brought up an interesting phenomenon. Forty years ago I took a thirty-two week intensive course in Mandarin, courtesy of the U.S. Government. That was back in the days of the Bamboo Curtain and before Richard Nixon’s pingpong diplomacy. During the intervening years I had little chance to use what I had learned and felt that I had completely forgotten most of it. Now, however, after only a few short months of renewed interest, sometimes I open my mouth and Chinese comes out that I didn’t even know that I knew. Somehow our magnificent brains remember everything that we have ever learned and some of it just goes dormant until we reawaken it years later. It is a very pleasant experience as from your comment I am sure you found to be the case.
AuntySue,
Same experience here. When I’m in ‘Chinese mode’ I have to be very careful not to lest Spanish words escape. Sometimes even some German kicks in too…
Marc in Belgium
P.S. Ken, great exposure for chinesepod. Germany is after all a big country, so lots of potential clients there.
I’ve always thought that reading German was fun for a native English speaker. All those cognates! It’s like a great, big guessing game.
Ken Carroll