Comments on: Chinese – the new Japanese? http://www.8asians.com/2007/03/13/chinese-the-new-japanese/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:43:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: 8Asians.com » China the Hot Spot for Studying Abroad: An Asian American/Asian Canadian Blog http://www.8asians.com/2007/03/13/chinese-the-new-japanese/comment-page-1/#comment-104181 8Asians.com » China the Hot Spot for Studying Abroad: An Asian American/Asian Canadian Blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:26:48 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2007/03/13/chinese-the-new-japanese/#comment-104181 [...] the cost-benefit ratio of studying Chinese never really occurred to me. And back in college, Japanese was the hot language since Japan was going to take over the [...] [...] the cost-benefit ratio of studying Chinese never really occurred to me. And back in college, Japanese was the hot language since Japan was going to take over the [...]

]]> By: 8Asians.com » Praxis Language Releases Additional Language Podcasts: An Asian American/Asian Canadian Blog http://www.8asians.com/2007/03/13/chinese-the-new-japanese/comment-page-1/#comment-103660 8Asians.com » Praxis Language Releases Additional Language Podcasts: An Asian American/Asian Canadian Blog Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:00:36 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2007/03/13/chinese-the-new-japanese/#comment-103660 [...] he asked if I’ve ever heard of Chinesepod. In fact, I had a long time ago — John had previously blogged about Praxis Language and its predecessor, ChinesePod — but apparently the podcast is doing pretty well and going strong. I did look into learning [...] [...] he asked if I’ve ever heard of Chinesepod. In fact, I had a long time ago — John had previously blogged about Praxis Language and its predecessor, ChinesePod — but apparently the podcast is doing pretty well and going strong. I did look into learning [...]

]]> By: susan http://www.8asians.com/2007/03/13/chinese-the-new-japanese/comment-page-1/#comment-1910 susan Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:10:19 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2007/03/13/chinese-the-new-japanese/#comment-1910 My kid is studying Japanese in high school. Hopefully it won't end up being totally irrelevant. My kid is studying Japanese in high school. Hopefully it won’t end up being totally irrelevant.

]]> By: Ken Carroll http://www.8asians.com/2007/03/13/chinese-the-new-japanese/comment-page-1/#comment-1449 Ken Carroll Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:31:08 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2007/03/13/chinese-the-new-japanese/#comment-1449 John, Mandarin is definitely here to stay, but there are a couple of huge obstacles with promoting it in US schools. First of all, it's a hard language to learn - much more challenging than Spanish, for example. Secondly, there are very few trained teachers who could teach it effectively in the US system - importing teachers from China won't do because they teach in a wholly different way. We believe that the only solution is technology - that's why we set up www.chinesepod.com which uses podcasting and other web 2.0 tools to instruct Mandarin. Check it out if you have time. Ken Carroll John,

Mandarin is definitely here to stay, but there are a couple of huge obstacles with promoting it in US schools. First of all, it’s a hard language to learn – much more challenging than Spanish, for example. Secondly, there are very few trained teachers who could teach it effectively in the US system – importing teachers from China won’t do because they teach in a wholly different way.

We believe that the only solution is technology – that’s why we set up
http://www.chinesepod.com which uses podcasting and other web 2.0 tools to instruct Mandarin. Check it out if you have time.

Ken Carroll

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