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iLearn Mandarin: February 2013
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013. Chinese as a tool for. Today, however, as a language teacher and non-native speaker of Chinese I find myself reflecting on the idea that language is a tool. While I don't think my undergraduate program missed the mark or got anything wrong, there are certain elements of this concept that can be greatly expanded upon in reagards to second language acquisition. In other words, what happens next? In that case you really wouldn't have a choice, you'd simply have to. A writing pa...
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iLearn Mandarin: September 2012
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Friday, September 28, 2012. ITalki classrom session: first impressions. In the desperate attempt to fix my Chinese writing problem as quickly (and cheaply) as possible I hopped on iTalki last night and sent out a couple messages to some certified teachers who had positive largely positive reviews and 30 minute demo sessions. It's one day later and I just finished a 30 minute trial session with one of the teachers. So, how did things go? Posted by Jacob Gill (高健). Thursday, September 27, 2012. Well it fin...
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iLearn Mandarin: May 2012
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Monday, May 28, 2012. A wealth of English phrases (in Chinese). I'm a huge fan of idiomatic phrases, a topic I've covered quite extensively on the Skritter blog. Don't put all your eggs in one basket," or "early bird gets the worm.". I would love to use these expressions in Chinese, but I'm not a translator. Although I can usually explain my way around. These phrase, my lack of confidence has left these linguistic gems out of my speeches and reports. at least until I came across THIS website. The site is...
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iLearn Mandarin: 64天00小時18分鐘31秒鐘
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014. 12302;膠片很快沖出來了，他開始檢視哪張值得放大洗成照片，在第一張就發現了一件離奇的事。這張拍的是一個大商場外的一小片草地，他看到底片正中有一行白色的東西，細看是一排數字：1200:00:00。 整捲膠片，每張底片上都有小小的一排數字！』－《三體》. Due Date: April 17th, 2014. Why the 17th of April, one might ask? Aside from being the day Pui (my 未婚妻) is flying into MKE to spend some time with me, it's also a week before I step onto a plane for Taipei, and the day my parents get home from their vacation to Florida. In the days after this due-date I plan to:. Find a place to live for three years.
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iLearn Mandarin: 8 Days Till Derailment
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Friday, February 14, 2014. 8 Days Till Derailment. Thesis Challenge, 開始! Thesis Ninja is ready to strike! For my Kindle App. The key, however, is staying on track, and making sure I put in the the correct amount of time per day to keep the pages churning. To do this, I'm using a Google Doc and Beemider. Beeminder helps you keep track of anything quantifiable, and tracks one's progress on a Yellow Brick Road. During my thesis writing process, I'm using it to track two things:. Of pages per day. But I've m...
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iLearn Mandarin: March 2012
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Why the heck are there Simplified characters in Taiwan? Taipei Main Station uses the Simplified (台) instead of (臺). This is the way that many of us look at the world of Chinese characters, especially as a student of Mandarin Chinese. Teachers don't generally talk about Hong Kong, or talk about what might be useful if you're living near a strong overseas Chinese community. The options we have, from the very beginning, feel political. A Taiwanese citizen said: 「改繁體字會比較好...
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iLearn Mandarin: August 2012
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Thursday, August 30, 2012. Stuff I've Learned 1.0. Probably the most exciting thing about living in Taiwan or Mainland Chinese as a Mandarin learner is the fact that Chinese is all around us. Even a bus ride across town can turn into a game of "how many characters do I know." As a Chinese teacher, I also appreciate the nearly infinite access I have to authentic material. And now. onto the show! Don't we look cute? And while I could read. 郎才女貌 individually as characters I was pleased to learn that it mean...
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iLearn Mandarin: April 2012
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Thursday, April 5, 2012. A few weeks ago, Hugh Grigg, over at East Asian Student. A super awesome blog)wrote an article titled " Why I decided to study Chinese. It was great to hear his own personal story,and I thought I would share my own about getting started down the path of studying Chinese. Personally I've had a strong passion for studying Japanese since I first read Shogun. I figured if I didn't like Chinese I could always switch to Japanese during my second year at school. Now here I am, in Taiwan...
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Semi-autobiographical | Taiwandering
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Teaching and traveling in Taiwan. Laquo; 35 minutes exactly. Sunday, 11 December 2011 by India. I had a young student who lived in the Taipei equivalent of a mansion. She didn’t like to be read to, but she loved being the teacher and leading me in activities that she would do in a normal school day. Came from an offshoot of “Writing Workshop” called, appropriately enough, “Making Books.”. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Enter your comment here.
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iLearn Mandarin: February 2014
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Friday, February 14, 2014. 8 Days Till Derailment. Thesis Challenge, 開始! Thesis Ninja is ready to strike! For my Kindle App. The key, however, is staying on track, and making sure I put in the the correct amount of time per day to keep the pages churning. To do this, I'm using a Google Doc and Beemider. Beeminder helps you keep track of anything quantifiable, and tracks one's progress on a Yellow Brick Road. During my thesis writing process, I'm using it to track two things:. Of pages per day. But I've m...
