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Improvements to Popup Chinese
My friend David has recently shown me some of what he’s been working on with his site for learning Chinese, Popup Chinese. Popup Chinese has always had a great technical backbone, amazing talent in its...
View ArticleInterviews with Successful Language Learners
Recently, John has started up yet another well-designed and interesting blog. This one is called Global Maverick, and it’s focus is language learning. It’s also got a tools section where he’s sharing...
View ArticleTaiwanese EFL Students Reading- Progress after a year
This summer, I managed to get a few videos of a class at my school when they had nearly finished their second semester. It’s a pretty good class in terms of student morale. The read from an extensive...
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Output-Based Language Learning?
Recently, I’ve been reading an interesting book called The 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferriss, and stumbled across his blog. In it, he had a video in which he and Kevin Rose that was primarily about...
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Studying Minnanhua in Taiwan
Towards the end of this Chinese New Year, I started studying Taiwanese[1]. Though most people in Taiwan speak Mandarin Chinese now, it wasn’t always the case. Even now, there are a lot of people who...
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My Search for Taiwanese Study Materials
The very first difficulty I had after deciding to learn some Taiwanese a few months ago was finding appropriate materials. Despite being surrounded by Taiwanese as a second language in Taipei, very...
View ArticleTrying Pimsleur Cantonese in Hong Kong
Over the past few years, I’ve heard a number of really positive reviews of Pimsleur language learning programs. Some of my friends have even lent me their Mandarin or Japanese packages. At the time it...
View ArticleCantonese Learning Materials
It was a bit easier than with Southern Min, but it really wasn’t that easy for me to find Cantonese learning materials. I found online dictionaries, but none with audio. There are some very basic...
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An interview with Chris Parker
I did a video interview of Chris Parker of Fluent in Mandarin on Lingsprout. It requires a login to view, but everything on the site is free: It was about 15 minutes and covered his background as a...
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My 2016: Learning that cooperation is overrated
The mission is unchanged—let the world converse 2016 was a time of great exploration and learning and yet I have the same driving desire now at the year’s conclusion that I had when it started—make...
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