Archive for the ‘Learn Chinese’ Category
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Translation to and from Chinese can be tricky at times. Sometimes you know the translation of a word, but you don't know how it can be placed inside a sentence. Or you have some sentence, you know the words, yet you cannot translate it in one piece. This is the ...
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
To learn Chinese requires learning material. A few weeks ago I've introduce one of my recommended Chinese listening materials: popupchinese.com. While Popupchinese is a guided lesson, it does cost money. Today I'll introduce another resource, which is free (as in free beer) but less guided. Anyhow, this is still one ...
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Today my mate Nino at MKL wrote about difficulties while learning Chinese and he is asking his readers what difficulties they encountered learning Chinese. First I wanted to write a short comment there, but I guess it's to much to summarize it in a short blog comment. So I take ...
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
"We feel deeply guilty." is a statement that could be found earlier this week on the Baidu website. You should be, for what You have done, Baidu! Censorship is a serious crime.
China's government is getting hyperactive once again, this time it wants to remove porn from the internet. Bad porn! ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
At some days I really hate the ignorance that comes along my way. Today's protagonist of discomfort: The BlackBerry Chinese Input Method Support doesn't exist... luckily I can use Google and luckily there are some hackers out there that helped pave the way to enjoy Chinese on my BlackBerry Curve ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
As You guys already know, learning Chinese is one of my passions in life. With this learning of the Chinese language comes my interest for learning theory. I also try to find out how languages are learned and how to make learning more effective.
Last weekend I found a few new ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Two years ago I started learning Chinese, starting with the omnipresent 你好. Now two years later let's have a look at how much Mandarin Chinese I learned in two years.
I'm not really sure what triggered my interest in Chinese, but I guess it's a number of factors. It all began ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
I wanted to do a review for Chinesepod for a very long time. Then one thing has stopped me: Chinesepod is already so well known, it is hardly necessary to write a review. During the last few weeks however I bumped into some people who still didn't know about Chinesepod, ...
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