We've been saying for months that Thursday night is CHINESE NIGHT in our family. But we've been slow to put it into action. Last week Jim invited a Fuller classmate from Taiwan over for dinner. He used Chinese mostly and we were all a bit glassy eyed by the end of the evening. We're in serious need of "revisions," as we call it in Singapore.
So, last night for the first time I used lessons off of the web @ http://chinesepod.com
For more than a year I've been listening to their podcasts of chinese lessons (from Shanghai)
but yesterday I finally went to check out their on-line resources to use with the family after dinner.
You can get the podcasts without signing up, but it's free to sign up to get the extras.
There are 4 levels and dialogues, words, expansion material for each lesson.
I told my kids (who've been reluctant to keep up with Chinese) that I'll give them 10 cents each time this week they use a sentence from the lesson!
Last May, while in Shanghai, we played a game that was the ultimate in bribery. While we were walking around town, anyone caught speaking English had to give the 'catcher' a kuai!
No comments:
Post a Comment