Tips and Strategies about the Chinese Language and Culture
Yesterday a friend showed me Waygo, an app that uses your camera to read hanzi off menus in restaurants, etc. (By the way, that feature is called an OCR = Optical Character Recognizer.) What impressed was that it’s free! Here’s the Continue reading Free Hanzi Reader for your Smart Phone Camera
As I mentioned before, on July 17 Yangyang and I did a live broadcast answering viewers’ questions about learning Chinese. We had a GREAT time (and I hope the viewers did too). Just so you know how the technology works: viewers Continue reading Video of Q & A Broadcast with Yangyang
Yesternight, I was on the bus and saw this fairly typical sign: I’ve taken this same bus lots of times, but never really paid attention to this sign. I found I could read every character except the one I’ve circled in Continue reading Why I Love Laokang Lookup for iPhone
I’m currently back in the USA for a short trip and Yangyang from Yoyo Chinese has invited me to do a live Google Hangout with her tomorrow. I’ve never done this before, but from what I understand she and I will Continue reading Live Q & A Broadcast Tomorrow with Yangyang
WARNING: This article is an explanation of the footnote in my conceptual breakdown of foreign language teaching. It’s really written more for language teachers and testers than learners. Language instruction is typically divided into four skills: 4 Skills for Most Continue reading The 5th Skill: Handwriting
Umm… it’s not often that I update something as quickly as I’ve updated my Blog Bank. It was just after I published that last post that I realized I can actually add far more than just blog RSS feeds. I Continue reading Blog Bank updated to be Resource Bank
[Update: See Blog Bank updated to be Resource Bank] With the upcoming demise of iGoogle (see image above), I’ve decided to explore better options for what used to be the “Learn Chinese” iGoogle Page. The best new thing I’ve found is NetVibes. Continue reading “Blog Bank” Replaces iGoogle Page
I’m very pleased to announce that I’ve taken a position as “course designer / script writer” at Yoyo Chinese. I’ve only been doing it for a little while so none of the lessons that I’ve written have been posted yet, Continue reading Yoyo Chinese – my new job
(As promised here, this is my separate post about hanzi.) Anyone want to make some money? You’re welcome to my idea about how I think hanzi should be taught: Inspiration If you’ve never had the chance to play an adventure Continue reading Chinese Hanzi Adventure Method
[Update: Bizarrely, comments weren’t allowed on this post at first (they are now). I don’t know why.] Someone want to make some money? Well you’re welcome to this idea if you can figure out how to do it and monetize Continue reading Wanted: Chinese Sign Frequency List