General Discussion
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Employment
October 23, 2007 at 01:22 AM
Position: English Tutor Teaching English communication, either in a group or one on one settings. Flexible working hours. Excellent pay. Will provi...
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Gift membership
October 22, 2007 at 08:21 AM
Are gift memberships available for ChinesePod or SpanishSense? Might be a good idea...
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Sharing vocab clusters
October 22, 2007 at 07:18 AM
I was wondering how best to share our own vocab around and beyond the CPod lessons, as I've personally been gathering for my Practice Plan session every morning...
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Jenny at Learning 2007
October 22, 2007 at 02:18 AM
Jenny mentioned in a previous post that she is in Orlando for a conference. This isn't just any old conference. Let me give you some background on...
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Tones: Beyond Basics
October 22, 2007 at 01:14 AM
One of the things I often notice about non-native Mandarin speakers is that some speakers rigorously stick to the four (or five) tone paradigm and ignore what they a...
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Learning 2007 Orlando
October 21, 2007 at 08:21 PM
I am in Disney World, Orlando, the hub of cutting edge learning in the next 4 days. Only 3 hours away from the opening session where I will introduce the revolutiona...
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Survived the troll critics
October 21, 2007 at 02:12 PM
I just remembered an old comment on the Blog from Sept. 2006 where a guy who claimed to be a "linguistics professor at an ivy-league university in the States&qu...
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Evolution of the Grammar Guide
October 21, 2007 at 08:38 AM
John announced that there will be an update of the Grammar Guide coming up mid-term. I wonder if the links to individual pages will stay stable - does it make sense...
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Learning Chinese Grammar from a 2-year old
October 20, 2007 at 09:51 AM
My 2-year old just said: 豹子把老鼠给吃了 The leopard ate the mouse. Note the natural use of the 把-construction. I guess this highlights the relevance of that pattern....
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Chinese dishes
October 20, 2007 at 03:49 AM
Hello, is anyone aware of an internet resource that can help me figure out what this stuff is on the menus of Beijing? 我很喜欢吃没有炒的蔬菜， 但是不知道怎么问。 谢谢！
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