http://toshuo.com/2005/far-east-everyday-chinese-book-1/ Chinese, Linguistics, Science, Cultural Observations and whatever else I feel like writing about Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:55:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://toshuo.com/2005/far-east-everyday-chinese-book-1/#comment-98398 StaddonFamily.com » Blog Archive » Groundbreaking Continues Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:24:54 +0000 http://www.toshuo.com/wordpress/?p=42#comment-98398 [...] 17 Our Chinese lessons were underway with this first pilot session. The curriculum is good for converstaional Chinese and NTUT provided a language [...] [...] 17 Our Chinese lessons were underway with this first pilot session. The curriculum is good for converstaional Chinese and NTUT provided a language [...]

]]> http://toshuo.com/2005/far-east-everyday-chinese-book-1/#comment-9190 John’s New Drill for Tone Pairs | Doubting to shuō: Chinese, Investing, EFL and Being a Geek in Taiwan Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:48:54 +0000 http://www.toshuo.com/wordpress/?p=42#comment-9190 [...] Over the last year or so, I’ve been thinking about making an online drill for Mandarin tone pairs. I don’t think I’m very unique in that I had the four tones down within in pretty short time as long as they were in isolation, but struggled with pairs of tones for a long, long time. The homework book for Far East Everyday Chinese I included a pretty useful drill for pairs of tones, that got the wheels turning in my head. It was really useful for me, and it’s not really anything that would have been that difficult to put online. Being the procrastinator that I am though, it’s still not done. [...] [...] Over the last year or so, I’ve been thinking about making an online drill for Mandarin tone pairs. I don’t think I’m very unique in that I had the four tones down within in pretty short time as long as they were in isolation, but struggled with pairs of tones for a long, long time. The homework book for Far East Everyday Chinese I included a pretty useful drill for pairs of tones, that got the wheels turning in my head. It was really useful for me, and it’s not really anything that would have been that difficult to put online. Being the procrastinator that I am though, it’s still not done. [...]

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