ChinesePod.com, one of the pioneers for learning languages via podcasts, has recently relaunched their affiliate program, and I gotta say, it’s better than ever.
An affiliate program might not mean much to many of you, but I know a lot of folks that read this blog regularly also run their own China-related blogs and sites, and [...]
As I’ve had no less than half a dozen e-mails asking me this, and as I can’t remember where I got the information initially, here’s some contact/prelim. information about Suzhou’s Soochow University Mandarin language program.
I’ve decided not to continue studying there for a whole number of reasons - none of which have to do with [...]
For as long as I’ve been in China I’ve been told, and have told others, that the reason the Chinese language is so impossibly difficult to learn is because of its alphabet of 50,000,000,000,000,000 characters, each strokingly more confusing than the last.
However, I think it’s time to set the record straight. Comparing the number of [...]
As some of you may know, I’m enrolled at Suzhou University (or Soochow University, SuDa) studying Mandarin. Having just completed my mid-terms, I want to give a bit of a summary on the problems I see studying in this way.
First, the title of this post is a bit of a misnomer, as overall I really [...]
Over the past couple years of half-heartedly studying Chinese I’ve come across a good number of computer-based tools to help in my studies.
ChinesePod, Google’s IME, Adsotrans and Google Translator, Wenlin and a bunch of great freeware and Firefox plugins - just to name a few.
However, about two months ago I was casually browsing the local [...]
