I was looking at photos of our spiritual overloads Ken Carrol and Jenny Zhu on Flickr just now, and I have to say, that Jenny is HOT. Ken however looks like your typical ESL teacher, i.e. his life is a perpetual hangover. However, Mr. Carroll is not to be underestimated, you can see for yourself at his blog at ken-carroll.com
Archive for April, 2008
Chinese Pod – Hot or Not?
April 28, 2008Adding Dialogues
April 25, 2008I have decided to add dialogues to the pages, starting with Zhongwen Red. They will be little four-line dialogues, with perhaps some new vocab elements thrown in.
I’ve written the first two dialogues here:
http://www.zhongwenred.com/lessonone.htm
and
http://www.zhongwenred.com/lessontwo.htm
I am not sure if I will write the dialogues for the other sites, although I think that I must. There is just not enough time in the day!
eLearning and Mandarin
April 22, 2008There are so many resources for learning Mandarin online, I am surpised though that some of it is so hard to get to. For instance, CCTV offers a lot of material, but you have to know where to go.
Have been sick lately so not much has happened with the site. WWW.zhongwenblue.com now has 25 lessons. I’ve been thinking though that I need to add more to the site than just example sentences.
WIFI by the pool
April 20, 2008The content for the first 1/4 of www.zhongwenred.com has been uploaded and is ready, but we need to put in the vocabulary section for at least 2/3 of the uploaded lesson. WWW.zhongwenblue.com should be finished in a few days.
We have not even uploaded www.zhongwengreen.com yet.
Saw in Barnes and Nobel one cd-based Mandarin pack costing over 70 dollars. Considering the fact that that is almost a year of Chinese Pod, it better have been a good series of lessons. CD-based learning is just so outdated.
People have just not caught up mentally do the new possibilities inherent in web-delivered digital technology.
Hello world!
April 19, 2008This weblog is going to document a series of projects I have been planning and working on over the past few months – a series of sites devoted to learning Mandarin online.
The sites are:
The sites focus on a single vocabulary word, and its explication through example sentences. The sites will eventually have 120 units each, with each unit having 2 mp3s of native speakers as well as a PDF of the information from the unit.
