Yearly Archives: 2011
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East Asian Language Learning meetup report (1214)
Posted on December 21, 2011 by admin in EALLHi! Last week was our final learning meeting this year and we hope you benefit a great deal from it. [Chinese team] Topic: Some episodes about Zhou Enlai We watched a historic video about Zhou Enlai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viuj1WjTIT4&feature=youtube_gdata_player and talked about some historic stories related to that period. [Selected vocabulary] 总理(zǒng lǐ) Premier 荤菜(hūn càì) meat [...]
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East Asian Language Learning meetup report (1207)
Posted on December 13, 2011 by admin in EALLHi! Here is the summary of our regular practice on 12/07. [Chinese team] Topic: “China to Face Severe Challenges in Foreign Trade next year” We listened to the video news http://www.voanews.com/chinese/programs/tv/59070652.html “中国明年外贸出口将面临挑战” and practiced repeating sentences and comprehension Q&A. You can find the English translation news here: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-06/china-to-face-severe-challenges-in-trade-next-year-mofcom-says.html [Selected vocabulary] 白皮书(báipíshū) White Paper 国务院(guówùyuàn) the [...]
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Business Chinese Kick-off Meeting (for Entry-level Chinese learners, Dec. 11)
Posted on December 12, 2011 by admin in Business ChineseHi! Thank you for attending our first Kick-off Meeting for Entry-level Chinese learners. I hope you enjoyed learning some basics of the Chinese language. Here’s the slide we used during today’s meeting: 20111211_Chinese for Beginners1.pptx The topics we covered today: – Chinese character overview, character forms, writing – Chinese dialects and Mandarin, – Mandarin phonetics, [...]
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East Asian Language Learning meetup report (1130)
Posted on December 6, 2011 by admin in EALLHi! How was your Thanksgiving holiday? Here is the summary of our regular practice on 11/30. [Chinese team] Topic: Chinese students in America We discussed some issues on Chinese students in America based on this article :http://fangbolin.blog.caixin.cn/archives/26251. We disagreed with most of the author’s opinions that led to a very active discussion. [Selected vocabulary] 固然(gùrán) [...]
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East Asian Language Learning meetup report (1116)
Posted on November 18, 2011 by admin in EALLHi! Here is the summary of our regular practice on 11/16. [Chinese team] Topic: Culture Clash Episodes between Chinese and American We practiced summarizing a paragraph you heard in your words first. And then each participant shared his/her culture clash episodes between Chinese and American through a 2-3 minute short speech. They are supposed to [...]
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East Aisan Language Learning meetup report (1109)
Posted on November 14, 2011 by admin in EALLHi! Here is the summary of our regular practice on 11/09. [Chinese team] Topic: Online Shopping in China We learned some vocabulary and knowledge about online shopping in China using a blog article http://blog.donews.com/jiatian/archive/2011/11/09/1584099. We practiced repeating and summarizing the content of the article. [Selected vocabulary] 电子商务(diànzǐshāngwù) or 线上购买(xiànshànggòumǎi) e-commerce 综合性购物网站(zōnghéxìnggòuwùwǎngzhàn) general online shopping sites [...]
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East Aisan Language Learning meetup report (1102)
Posted on November 7, 2011 by admin in EALLHi! Here is the summary of our regular practice on 11/02. [Chinese team] Topic: Chinese independent film We practiced this week as bellow: 1. Had a dictation of the film related words what we learned last week and checked the answers. 2. Learned the definition of Chinese independent film according to the lecture given by [...]
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East Aisan Language Learning meetup report (1026)
Posted on October 30, 2011 by admin in EALLHi! Here is the summary of our regular practice on 10/26. [Chinese team] Topic: Your favorite Chinese film and current situation of Chinese films First, each participant talked about their favorite Chinese film and why they like it (You did a good job!). Then we discussed a little about the current situation of Chinese film [...]
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East Aisan Language Learning meetup report (1019)
Posted on October 24, 2011 by admin in EALLHi! Here is the summary of our regular practice on 10/19. [Chinese team] Topic: “见义勇为” or “见死不救” The hit-run toddler ignored case happened in China becomes a hot and serious topic these days which you can not ignore. We mainly read and discussed an following article about “Guangdong government consider legislation to punish the ones [...]
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East Aisan Language Learning meetup report (1012)
Posted on October 18, 2011 by admin in EALLHi! Here is the summary of our regular practice on 10/12. [Chinese team] Topic: “Occupy Wall Street” and American economy We listened to the VOA Chinese report about American job market and had a hot discussion about “Occupy Wall Street” and American economy. Find the video file here: 每日视频新闻→《美国就业人数增加 失业率不减》) [Selected Vocabulary] 占领(zhàn lǐng) occupy [...]
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