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Graded Readers for Intermediate learners

September 05, 2007 at 02:30 AM

Stumbled across this great news website:  http://www.shnwzb.com/  It specifically targets primary and middle school students, so the language / characters... Read more

Back to School Promotion!

September 04, 2007 at 06:58 AM

Students all across the world (or at least across the northern hemisphere) are gearing up to go back to school, and many of them are going to be studying Chinese in... Read more

Printing Vocabulary List

September 04, 2007 at 01:12 AM

Greetings. I wonder if a shortcut exists for what I am trying to accomplish. I wish to print out my Vocabulary list, so I can have it as a hard copy mini-dictionary... Read more

ni hao!

September 03, 2007 at 11:43 PM

hi im new. i speak alot of japanese and im just learning chinese. can anybody teach me? Read more

Intermediate to Advanced Textbook Recommendations

September 03, 2007 at 09:26 AM

Just curious to see what the more advanced learners are using as their core textbooks.  I'm about to finish the New Practical Chinese Reader series (or what... Read more

Good Chinese Podcast Recommendations

September 03, 2007 at 08:43 AM

Can anyone recommend some good Chinese podcasts? Preferably video podcasts and not language learning. Read more

Ahma sings a kiddie song!

September 02, 2007 at 11:10 PM

Well, Speilberg and Ford we are not , but Ahma has one more for the poddies. This one's a bit harder because she's singing. The tones of the words are masque... Read more

The HSK Exams and CPod

September 02, 2007 at 03:27 PM

I came across an interesting post on Chinese-forums.com that cited someone from CPod saying that the Advanced lessons are close to being on the same level with the H... Read more

I'm back -- !

September 02, 2007 at 05:34 AM

Apologies to anyone who tried to get ahold of me over the last several weeks; I've been distracted.  My mother passed away after a couple weeks of hospice c... Read more

Cultural translation

September 01, 2007 at 07:16 PM

I've been surprised at how tolerant the Chinese are when you take the trouble to speak Chinese, embarrassingly so. I had to deliver a little speech at a wedding... Read more