DISQUS

Open Culture: Teach Your Children Mandarin … They’re Going to Need It

  • Keith · 1 year ago
    www.cslpod.com has daily Chinese podcasts at varying levels, and is one of the best in my opinion.
  • Steve Lee · 1 year ago
    Thomas Friedman is a very persuasive purveyor of bad ideas, ideas that are adopted by the "environmental activists" and politicians and imposed on Americans as government policies.
    Thomas Friedman on America's Energy Dilemma:
    http://www.communati.com/steve-lee/american-ene...
    Thomas Friedman also recently spent time in Denmark (on the <cite>New York Times </cite>expense account again)
    http://www.communati.com/steve-lee/bad-ideas
    Thank you for the interesting pages.
  • Adam Gotskind · 1 year ago
  • Toffler · 1 year ago
    Chinesepod produces great podcasts. Even though I already live in China, I frequently listen to their podcasts to pick up new vocabulary and supplement my classroom learning. Still, any real progress in a foreign language requires a speaking component. For people not living in China, I think www.italki.com is great site for finding lots of native Chinese speakers who are eager to do language exchange. Its a good, free way to check your pronunciation and acquisition of the language and to develop confidence in speaking.

    There are also an increasing number of companies in China which are teaching Chinese online; however, the lessons aren't free.
  • Clair · 7 months ago
    I would recomand www.cslpod.com
    free and interesting, got everything I want in chinese learning.
  • Al Jensen · 4 weeks ago
    We are working on a great online textbook for standard Chinese at http://www.daydayupchinese.com, and of course it is entirely free