I’ve stopped learning Chinese.
Or, more accurately, I have stopped learning any NEW Chinese. I’m spending a month or so on the Karate Kid method of language learning. I’m going to focus on the few things that I know, and I’m going to drill down on them until I know them with a nearly native fluency. […]
Archive for March, 2008
A very strange experiment…
Published by March 22nd, 2008 in ChinesePod and Alternate learning methods. 8 CommentsOne of the great things I got to do while I was in Shanghai was hang out with my old friend, Aric Queen. For those of you who are new to the ChinesePod universe, Aric was the producer of the shows for a nice stretch and hosted the now-famous Saturday Show (of which I was […]
Okay, folks. Time to throw down a bit and strut your stuff. Now and then I’ll take a movie line, or a piece of dialogue and try to figure out how I’d say the same thing in Mandarin and have it mean the same thing (my grammar knowledge being what it is, I can’t say […]
Do you ever get the feeling like it’s all… pointless?
Blasphemy, I know. How could I even suggest it? But there it is. I’m surrounded—SURROUNDED, I tell you—by non-Chinese-speaking people! All these years of practice… well, both of them… and for what? So I can order a Diet Coke one week a year when I go […]
