Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Saturday, May 3, 2008
E-books and Traditional Books
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Sixth Assignment
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
EXHAUSTED
Monday, April 14, 2008
The Fourth Passage
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Travel
Friday, April 4, 2008
My favourite sports activity
Saturday, March 1, 2008
A tough week
Friday, February 22, 2008
Language Studies in Shanghai
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Some thoughts
I have a pair of interns working with me at the moment, and both are interested in learning Chinese. I’ve been spending some time teaching them on almost every day for the past week or so. It has been a new experience for me, teaching Chinese.
I’ve figured something out, doing this. There is nothing to replace teaching someone else the things you’ve struggled to learn. This is especially true regarding the reinforcement of that foundational knowledge.
I hope these interns decide to stick with it for the whole six weeks they are here. That will take us pretty much through the whole first book of the series I like to use. Then, just for fun, I think I will revisit the second book. There are a total of 8 books, and I haven’t finished all of them. Perhaps this is just the motivation I need to kickstart me once again.
If I could just make myself finish the whole series, I would consider my Chinese pretty advanced.
I guess it isn’t so much “if I could,” though, as it is “if I just would.”