Archive for the ‘Language’ Category
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
This is a great idea, beautifully implemented:
ChinesePod
I like the fact that they've broken down the podcasts into newbie, beginner, intermediate, and advanced. I especially like their business model: Distribute the podcasts for free, and charge for the additional learning materials.
They have chosen the blog format to present the material, and ...
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
This is a huge find - to discover a yet-unknown composition by J.S. Bach, simply amazing.
Bach composed the work for a soprano, to be accompanied by strings or a harpsichord, to mark the 52nd birthday of the duke of Saxony-Weimar, for whom he worked as a court organist, the ...
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Thursday, February 10th, 2005
After a long search, I finally have installed a Taiwanese keyboard on Yingwen's iBook with the 注音 (Zhuyin) / ㄅㄆㄇㄈ (Bo Po Mo Fo) glyphs imprinted on the key caps, to enable proper typing in Chinese. But holy crap, what an ordeal. First off, the ...
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2005
I just found this cute and very useful little program called Aiya! which teaches the Chinese language learner the Bopomofo/Zhuyin Chinese phonetic alphabet and where the corresponding characters would be when using the Zhuyin input method at the same time. Such a nice, focused little program.
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2004
eTaiwanNews.com / West Point cadets speak of experiences at U.S. academy But the TOEFL scores didn't prevent Li and Tan from running into language difficulties that ultimately proved embarrassing. Li told the Taiwan News that during his first year of training, there was an air assault drill ...
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