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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Culture and TCFL
Here’s a revealing article about how Mandarin is being taught in New Zealand. It opens with this line: ‘Confucius say getting Kiwis to learn Chinese is like banging head against brick wall.’ It continues: ‘Confucius Institute director Nora Yao … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese, Learning Chinese
Tagged Chinese, Confucius Institutes, learning Mandarin, tcfl
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ChinesePod, the New York Times, and the future
The subject of online language learning has been in the news, particularly since Live Mocha received funding some weeks ago. Yesterday, my company, Praxis Language appeared alongside them, in the New York Times (the same story appeared in the International Herald Tribune today). … Continue reading
Posted in ChinesePod, Learning 2.0
Tagged ChinesePod, Ken Carroll, New York Times, SpanishPod
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Confucius meets web 2.0
Both ChinesePod and SpanishPod come under the banner of Praxis Language. The Praxis vision is pretty radical: re-formulating how online language learning is done. (We, er, don’t lack ambition.) Recently, Praxis were asked by National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (NOCFL) … Continue reading