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Best of China

June 06, 2007 at 09:10 AM

Hi All, Lydia at CityWeekend is looking for contributors to an upcoming issue that features 'The Best of China'. She'll pay for contributions, and I figu... Read more

Choosing a program in Taipei & applicable grants

June 06, 2007 at 08:46 AM

I got a MOE scholarship to study Chinese in Taiwan and I have applied to three programs in Taipei, Taiwan.  I was wondering if anyone had input on these program... Read more

Big Brain - Suggest a Lesson Set!

June 05, 2007 at 01:52 PM

Italiana asked an interesting question today about what to study after the Intro 6. Lesson Sets are a great solution for this kind of question, but it made me wonder... Read more

Expand Your Vocab

June 05, 2007 at 01:50 PM

  I found a good website that has more Mandarin lessons and flashcards with extra vocabualry words. It is http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Browse.do Change... Read more

Correction in YouTube Chinese Lesson

June 05, 2007 at 05:12 AM

My dear fellow CPoddies: I am SO VERY SORRY, but I made a slight error in the lesson I created for the community which I posted on YouTube 2 weeks ago. My sister-in-... Read more

Do you know of a website that translates English word to Chinese?

June 04, 2007 at 11:54 PM

 I am in  need of a website that will translate an English word to a Chinese word in pinyin form . Do you know of one? I've found quite a few translate... Read more

NBA in China article on Yahoo

June 04, 2007 at 10:50 PM

This article is kinda funny.  Jenny Zhu, you'll be in Orlando in October, you guys need to get Dwight Howard in the Studio for a Saturday Show when they com... Read more

What lesson pack would be the best to do next if I just finished the 6-day Intro?

June 04, 2007 at 10:02 PM

I just finished the 6-day Intro....what would be the next best lesson pack to start on? 谢谢! Read more

Chinese Zodiac

June 04, 2007 at 04:51 PM

The traditional Chinese lunar calendar has been used in China for over three millennia. It counts the years in sixty-year cycles, utilizing combinations of two serie... Read more

When to use 把?

June 03, 2007 at 10:37 PM

The lesson about buying train tickets had the following sentence:  可以把机票送过来吗？ From the little I have read or understood, the 把 acts as a marker, allowing t... Read more