Archive for the ‘Learn Chinese’ Category
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 ...
Posted in Asia business, Learn Chinese, Various stuff | 3 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Learn Chinese | 6 Comments »
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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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
As I am in Hongkong, I also have to learn this language. To get started I searched for some resources on this language, which has been described as very difficult, and easy as well. Depends where You come from, I believe. Let's go over some resources:
RTHK - naked Lunch: Cantonese ...
Posted in Hong Kong, Learn Chinese | No Comments »
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Previously I have given You a whole bunch of learning methods, I also recommended You to go to a Chinese university to learn Mandarin and encouraged You to talk to Chinese persons. However I wondered what method is useful in particular. Which one has the best ROI (Return of investment)? ...
Posted in Improve Yourself, Learn Chinese | 1 Comment »
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Sometimes we come across a very specific word which is not in our dictionary. We need a translation anyway. So what can we do? Wikipedia rescues us, at least in many cases. This How To is written for the English -> Chinese translation, however it can be applied for almost ...
Posted in Learn Chinese, Various stuff | 16 Comments »
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Recently I heard this this dialog:
- Hey man, I want to invest in China, I want to settle here, can I do that? I mean because of visa and stuf...
- Sure You can. The law states You can. But we don't know if this law still exists tomorrow.
Two weeks later, ...
Posted in Asia business, China in General, Improve Yourself, Learn Chinese | 8 Comments »
