Monthly Archives: December 2011

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  East Asian Language Learning meetup report (1214)

  Posted on December 21, 2011 by admin in EALL

  Hi! 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 EALL

  Hi! 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 Chinese

  Hi! 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 EALL

  Hi! 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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