So well over a year ago Andy and I set out to learn Mandarin Chinese. Thus far I have been a complete failure. Andy has done a bit better but I'm not sure how far he's gotten since his trip to China. In any case, now that I'm about to go spend several months in a small cabin on the Lakes I'm hoping to get more resources together and get more serious. The unfortunate part is that all the native speakers I knew at OnStar are now out of touch. But in the time since I've found ChinesePod, a foreign language podcast which is excellent.
I had just gotten into it, but wanted to focus first on the more basic lessons. But just a few weeks after signing up, I've found that Slate.com is now heartily endorsing it as well, which has me more motivated and hopefully I'll be speaking much better in the next year.
Anyway, this is up here primarily for Andy, but if anyone else is motivated, check it out and we can speak bad chinese together. Any podcasting software will pick this up as a feed, but they also have all the episodes available (divided into four difficultly levels) for download as mp3, so any Luddites can step only into 1999 and pick up just mp3s. Its also available on the iTunes store.
Posted by ktismael at April 28, 2006 2:03 AM