坐上北京的新的出租车,就会听到一个充满魅力的女声音说这么一句话:”Welcome to take Beijing taxi!” 为什么不能这么讲呢?请留言。。。
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Chinglish Police: Star Wars Subtitles 星球大战字幕
学生经常问看美国原版电影的时候该不该看字母。。。我的建议是最好不看,或少看。 不过,我们还有另外一种考虑,也就是有的字幕做的极其差, 非常不可靠。 via winterson.com
51IELTS访谈
Victor (李鑫) and I spent the afternoon answering questions online at 51IELTS. We were there to promote our new book, 雅思口语真经. You can read the transcript here. (What a terrible picture!) I also just noticed that there’s a page about me on the 51IELTS site (with another terrible picture!!). If there are any questions about […]
对外汉语:”Going Global”
Here’s an article on the rising popularity of Chinese in the West.
住宿班部开班
Sunday night Harvey (刘洪波), Wang Xin (王欣) and I went out to our 西三棋 residential campus to welcome students from the IELTS and NETEM 考研 classes that just arrived. We addressed the two classes together. Harvey introduced the teachers, I spoke about the importance of planning your study time, and Wang Xin went over some […]
Harry Potter
Harry Potter just stole two days of my life. Of course, I didn’t put up much of a fight.
ZGC Book Building Lecture
I had a lecture at the 中关村图书大厦 this afternoon. I enjoyed talking with some folks afterwards about Innovations and my Culture Class, as well as about how they could help their children learn English. I recommended cartoons. There were also some loyal English Evening listeners, and I had fun talking with them. One girl, Esther, […]
英语加速器 English Accelerator
这些天我们正在准备新航道英语加速器的第一期实验班。这个课程是以网上进行的训练为主,它的功效是提高我们对英语最基本的单元(音,字母)的熟悉程度和意识,以帮助我们的大脑更快地处理英语。 第一期实验班已经基本报满了,但第二期过一段就会设。 加速器论坛
Do I think differently from you?
The following (except for the last paragraph) first appeared in this month’s New Channel newspaper. Let me know if you have any thoughts or criticisms. Do I think differently from you? When we talk about culture, one of the topics that comes up again and again is the question of whether or not people from […]
采访雷蒙德 Interview with Ray
Yesterday I sat down with Ray, who teaches both Innovations and IELTS, and had a chat about his hometown, coming to China, and his views on teaching English. You can listen to the interview here (mp3, 3898.6K). Let me know what you thought of the interview in the comments. Was it interesting? Good listening practice? […]