It’s been a while since we had an open thread. The floor is yours.
What’s on your mind?
Ken Carroll
Archive for January, 2007
I have some news I want to share with you. Pretty soon (within 3 months) we plan to launch the Spanish equivalent of ChinesePod. That’s right, we’re going to teach Spanish (through the medium of English, that is). We’ve had the idea on and off since last year, but in recent weeks we’ve committed to […]
The character display issues have been solved!
Published by January 29th, 2007 in About ChinesePod. 7 CommentsAllow me to extend my gratitude to the heroic comrades on the ChinesePod forum. These brave men and women are at the forefront of the battle against the evil forces of spam and wacky character display.
Here they are:
1. Colin Jacobs aka “Coljac”, creator of the ” Hanzi Helper”
2. Anne Matthias (Anne M.) […]
I want to post a series of learning insights that have emerged for me as important in the last year. The first one concerns the issue of redundancy.
As it happens, ChinesePod learner, ‘kmk’, picked up on this issue today. Let me first explain my view of what it is.
By redundancy I refer […]
This interview with linguist, Steven Pinker, has some very interesting stuff on language and metaphor, for those of you who may be linguistically inclined.
Ken Carroll
A lot of spam on the site today, for some reason. Meanwhile, the Google alert spamming idiocy continues in the blogosphere. I mentioned this approach a few days ago: the spammer sets a Google alert for the term learning Chinese. Whenever he sees a blog post on the topic he goes in and spams the […]
Mobile learning will be big. As part of the trend towards ubiquitous computing it will change our lives.
What happens, for example, when you have uninterrupted access to your favorite sources of information, regardless of time, location, device, or even format? One effect will be to enable situational learning. There’s probably no better way to […]
ChinesePod in the Chcago Tribune
Published by January 25th, 2007 in ChinesePod Media Coverage. 2 CommentsNathan Bierma pens an article in the Chicago Tribune today on language learning and podcasting. It’s a pretty good overview of the various offerings out there, including ChinesePod.
Ken Carroll
Here’s a dreary little approach to spamming. For some months now, a guy called Bobu, or demoore has been stalking us around the blogosphere. He searches for posts about ChinesePod using the various blog search engines. When he finds one, he goes in, often adding some silly, fake helpful comments, as if he were a […]
… from the ChinesePod factory
ZH site update: We have fully restored zh.chinesepod.com and so for those using the advanced.chinesepod.com workaround still, you can now switch back!
Periods of inactivity: Some of you guys have brought up the fact that you were prompted to login again after a period of inactivity (whilst still remaining on the […]
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