Author Archive for Colleen Hamilton

What’s going on?!

You may have noticed a few things in the past few days:
1. Very unfortunately, there has been an earthquake in Taiwan
2. ChinesePod just hasn’t been responding quite as promptly to your discussion comments and blog comments.
Well, low and behold, these two are related. For some reason, when we arrived back today from Christmas […]

Holiday iPod Contest - Winner #1!

We were all as giddy as 小孩子 (xiǎo hái zǐ) on Christmas when we made this first draw for our Christmas giveaway! We literally put your names into a (straw) hat and came up with this:

Congratulations to the lovely Ms. Ana Maria Pinheiro from Brazil, new owner of a red, 4G iPod Nano from ChinesePod.com! […]

Frank’s ‘Mandarin Mutterings’

You’ve come to this blog for news, community, information, pedagogy, and entertainment from Ken and the rest of us at ChinesePod. But what about the other side? What about following along with another ChinesePod student, someone who feels the pain of saying the wrong tone (A misplaced fourth tone and “Can I ask you’ […]

Chinese Holidays Galore

With National Week (October 1-7) and the Mid-Autumn Festival coinciding at the same time this year, we here in China are gearing up for a big week of travel, family, and ruining our diets eating those delicious mooncakes. (For those of you who don’t know, during the Mid-Autumn Festival it is traditional to give […]




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Ken Carroll discusses issues concerning learning generally, and learning Mandarin in particular. With technology as the driver, he believes the most effective learning combines elements of collaboration with self-direction. If that seems like a contradiction, then you need to read the blog.

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