<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the interest. Should we talk about possible day of the week? Thursday evening would be my first choice, but I throw it out there to see what day would work.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 6:04 PM, banzai bezaire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:banzai@spaz.org" target="_blank">banzai@spaz.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
this is also interesting to me.<br>
<div><div class="h5">> Good. Glad to get some encouragement. I had about 75 days in China,<br>
> and<br>
> its hard.<br>
><br>
> But its my belief that the technology ought to change the way we ought to<br>
> learn Chinese. Not just simple things like spaced repetition modules,<br>
> but<br>
> where the hours should be invested. For example in English, long hand<br>
> writing in script isn't important now, and spelling skills are different<br>
> with spell checking, and there has to be similar for Chinese. Maybe the<br>
> teaching model, hasn't fully caught up with new technology capabilities.<br>
> An<br>
> interesting article that I saw today, says that Google Glass is developing<br>
> to allow you to look at Chinese text, and see the English translation.<br>
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> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Mitch Altman <<a href="mailto:maltman23@hotmail.com">maltman23@hotmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Thanks for posting, Greg.<br>
>><br>
>> Having just returned from China, and having learned almost no language<br>
>> skills this trip (after having forgotten any minimal past language<br>
>> skills I<br>
>> picked up from past trips), I would really like to get together with<br>
>> others<br>
>> who would like to learn some Chinese. And talking about tools that can<br>
>> help will also be cool.<br>
>><br>
>> Best,<br>
>> Mitch.<br>
>><br>
>> ________________________________<br>
>> > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:26:08 -0800<br>
>> > From: <a href="mailto:gregorydillon@gmail.com">gregorydillon@gmail.com</a><br>
>> > To: <a href="mailto:zhongwen@lists.noisebridge.net">zhongwen@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br>
</div></div>>> > Subject: [ä¸æ–‡] Anyone want to revive this list for a limited run to<br>
<div><div class="h5">>> talk<br>
>> > about technology to learn Chinese.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Hi,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > It looks like this list has been idle for a while. I wish it was<br>
>> > happening, but lacking that, I advance the invitation to meet and talk<br>
>> > about technology to learn Chinese, and if it grows into reviving<br>
>> > Mandarin corner, even better.<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > Some things I see<br>
>> > Website<br>
>> > Android and Iphone Apps<br>
>> > Google Translate<br>
>> > Skype teaching<br>
>> > Skitter<br>
>> > Pinyin Engines<br>
>> > Other electronic dictionaries.<br>
>> > What tech will exist in a few years.<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > --<br>
>> > . Greg<br>
>> ><br>
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