Second keynote is Jenny Zhu from Chinese Pod, which teaches people from all over the world how to speak Mandarin Chinese using the web and podcasting.
She is from Shanghai and this is very interesting...a truly impactful way to deliver training.
We're learning some words in Mandarin.
Pijiu means Beer in Mandarin Chinese. There you go...that was worth the $1000 registration fee.
Jonathan from the CIA is brought up to interview Jenny. He lays out some serious Chinese chops and conducts a conversation with her that is garble to me. He is apparently asking her success tips for her podcasting efforts.
Her realization is that learning all happens differently for everyone. In the beginning, they tried to put too much information in one lesson and in one format and and all on one level. So over time, they changed this to make everything digestible in smaller doses.
She's very hip and young...this is a great example.
Mandarin is very tonal but supposedly very easy to learn to speak...I might check it out.
The CIA guy thinks they have created a best practice for language instruction. Jenny speaks to the structural choices users can select which has made a huge difference.
More Mandarin:
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