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At the heart of the Jewish Passover Seder are the "Four Questions" (Ma Nishtana) traditionally sung by the youngest person at the table. Increasingly, Passover Seders are organized and attended by people who speak Mandarin Chinese. We searched without success for a musical rendition of the Four Questions translated to Chinese.
TACL-LYF is a weeklong sleepaway camp for kids who have a strong interest in Taiwanese American culture, values, and leadership. We are huge fans.
Art museums are perfect language prompts: colorful, thought-provoking, and intellectually challenging. Language is a natural response. We've spent the last four years learning languages at the world's great art museums, and you can too.
Two weeks after InstantMandarin.com was shuttered, the former manager and teachers of this estimable school have resumed teaching Mandarin Chinese online. tigerba.com explains how you can get in on the action.
LingoBus is an online school that can help make your child conversationally fluent in Mandarin Chinese and a fluid reader of Chinese Hanzi characters in just a few years. Our family’s extensive experience with LingoBus proves that. This article is an organized walkthrough of all of the courses and learning resources that are offered by LingoBus, including four little-known classes: a Picture Book course, a Public Speaking course, a Novel Reading course, and a brand new conversation class called FluentFlow.
vFlat is an app for Android and Apple iOS devices that turns your phone or tablet into an awesome document scanner for books, paper, and flat art. You simply take pictures of each page of the book, and vFlat will magically transform your physical book into a single paginated PDF, or a sequence of JPG images.
The Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in San Francisco honored winners of the November 2024 China Bridge competition. My son Sam方平山 was asked to make a five minute speech, in which he talked about his experiences “growing up” in China through frequent visits, his friendship with China, and his lifelong love of the classic Chinese folk tale Ma Liang and the Magic Brush.
Langotalk is a glimpse of the future of language learning, a future where learners will have unlimited opportunities for practice and review with AI-driven language teachers who are willing to work for free. How close does Langotalk get us to that future?
You can "automagically" turn your language learner’s class histories listed on webpages into structured tabular data of the sort you see in spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets and Apple Numbers. This class history data is useful, and will become more useful as your learner grows in ability. You should export these class histories from places like InstantMandarin.com and LingoBus.com before these sites shut down or hide this valuable data from view. You don’t have to be a geek or a gearhead to accomplish this. Here’s how.
Many online education and app companies dedicated to language learning offer their best discounts around this time of year, coinciding with Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and China's "Singles Day" (11/11). If you need language learning lessons or language learning apps, this time of year is often the best time to buy. Here's a list of 2024's best language learning bargains.
