Lesson Comments
我是《第三文化小孩》，意思是说我小的时候，我美国家庭在法国住和我的学校是国际的：一半的学生是法国人，每天也有法文课，然后一半的学生从许多国家来的。 十三岁回了美国。虽然我回美国以前感觉我是《美国人》，但是我真的有很大的 "reverse culture shock"， 快发现了我不感觉美国人，也不是... Read more
It's great to have a new cultural show, and one that has such a flexible format. I love the idea of a regular rag-bag of fascinating stuff, changing f... Read more
There's a book by Jonathan Spence - "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci", which explores the mnemonic methods that Ricci used in learning Chinese, and... Read more
svenverelst, may I ask what you are up to? You have made scores of comments in the last week, and they all look indecipherable to me. Maybe I am missi... Read more
How do you think Chinese schools kill imagination? I ask you since you've been living in China for so long. Read more
I have heard that the Chinese themselves where unaware of the tones until the Jesuits pointed them out. I don't know if this is true or not. I also... Read more
I enjoyed listening to this. I think it is interesting to read about these so called “ first visitors” but I have been equally fascinated... Read more
Not to knock on Marco Polo, but I thought I would mention that there had been contact between the West and China for ages before he went there. &nbs... Read more
媒体课程对学习汉语都很有用，可是视频音质量常常比较差， 所以不容易听的懂。 0：40 由于对人的gaodong情绪，红色的人能够迅速结交到非常多的朋友。使得他们能够成为聚会当中的灵魂人物。 在天性当中红色充满了激情和生命力。他们表达的ming那么是和平淡无奇变得栩栩如生。 // 3：36 蓝色严肃的... Read more