We teach Chinese!: March 2008 Archives

job opening--Yinghua Academy

Hi everyone, please see the attached pdf for job opening at Ying Hua Academy!

For more info about the school this is the website:
http://www.yinghuaacademy.org/

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Made by China

Please join us at the East Asian Library [April 8th, one week from today] for "Made by China," the second brown bag discussion of our China Today series. Our speaker Seth Werner, lecturer of Marketing and Logistics Management, Carlson School, has given a well-received presentation named "Made in China" at Weisman Museum last October. This time Mr. Werner will discuss more on the transition from "Made in China" to "Made by China," and how China’s early policies regarding foreign investment have prepared China for future growth. Mr. Werner will share with the audience basic information about recent trends in foreign investment in China and his thoughts on how Chinese firms are starting to grow into markets beyond China’s boarders. A key thesis is that these firms are using important market tools well beyond the stereotypical “price advantage.�? A question and answer session will follow the presentation.

The East Asian Library will provide fresh tea and light Chinese treats.

Date: Tuesday (4/08/2008)
Time: 11:45am-1:00pm
Place: East Asian Library, Wilson Library Subbasement, West Bank

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China Day--April 18th at Northrop

China Center will be sponsoring the annual event of China Day on April 18th.

The theme for this year is the Beijing Olympics, and will feature talks by professors from the U of M, a jeopardy game on Chinese culture and the Olympics, a poster show of the the Olympic torch relay cities, box lunch, drawing prizes, and much more!

All teachers and guests welcome!

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Seeking Chinese students and faculty�?--principals forum

The first annual Sino-US Education Forum will take place in the Universityof Minnesota's Coffman Union on April 29-30, 2008. This event will feature100 Chinese principals plus University of Minnesota participants. The host of the event, the University's China Center, is seeking students,faculty, or staff who would be interested in participating in the event asinterpreters (see note below from Jennifer Wu Dunn of the China Center).

"We will need many qualified Chinese-English interpreters to interpret about11 plenary sessions (on 4/29 and in the morning of 4/30) and 3 break-outsessions (in the afternoon of 4/30). Some sessions will be from Chinese toEnglish, and others from English to Chinese."

Registration for the conference is free, but will be very limited.Interpreting would ensure your participation in this historic event. If youare interested in interpreting, please contact me (john4810@umn.edu).

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China blog list.org

This is a list of blogs in Chinese written by learners of Chinese as foreign language. Some are really fun to read!
http://www.chinabloglist.org/csl/

Here's an example:
大斋节
今天是肥美星期二（好�?也翻译�?肥肥的星期二），明天是圣�?�节，是大斋节第一日。圣�?�节和�?�难节那两个节日基�?�徒必须得�?食。

那两天除了海鲜，任何肉类都�?能�?��?。还有，在那两个节日的时候一天�?�能�?�一顿饭。早�?�?�?��?�?�能�?�一些。大斋节期间的�?个周五也�?能�?�肉产�?，�?过那天�?象圣�?�节和�?�难节�?食。

我估计今年�?�人基�?�徒过圣�?�节有一点困难。今年圣�?�节也是春节�??�?一日，农历里�?��?�除夕。除夕晚上有�?少�?�人跟家庭团员�?�一顿很大的晚�?，�?过基�?�徒�?�能分享无肉的�?�。

记�?：除夕的 “除�? 和 �?一�?�?二�?�?三的 “�?�? 是两个�?�?�的�?。�?少人认为它们是一个�?。请�?�?那样以为。谢谢。

按照教堂规定，�?�有21至59�?之间的基�?�徒必须�?食。孕妇和病人�?�以�?�?食。而且，圣�?�节和�?�难节的时候�?能�?便�?��?�?�。�?时�?一些饮料是�?�以的。

自从我�?�大陆以�?�，�?年大斋节的周日�?圣�?�节�?�?�难节，我得�??�?解释为什么有时候�?能�?�肉。因此我就写这篇文章。希望从今往�?��?�以安安�?��?�地�?�我的海鲜，�?用回答�?�样的问题，哈哈。

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"Have to love"

A teenage Chinese song, recommended by Donna. Her kids love it!!

天天都需�?你爱
我的心�?由你猜
I love you
我就是�?你让我�?天都精彩
天天把它挂嘴边
到底什么是真爱
I love you
到底有几分说得比想�?更快
是我们感情丰富太慷慨
还是有上天安排
是我们本�?�就是那一派
还是�?�?得太乖
是那一次约定了没有�?�
让我哭得�?�?孩
是我们急�?��?明我存在
还是�?爱会�?�呆

YOU'RE MY GIRL MY GIRL MY FRIENDHOW MUCH I LOVE YOU SO SO MUCH I'M SORRY YOU'RE MY SWEETHEARTMY LOVE MY ONE

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Jay Chou Fearless

Jay Chou+Jet Li, one of the most favorited Chinese songs on youtube:

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Rutgers Chinese

Hi everyone,

This is the Rutgers Chinese learning site. The novice level dialogues are traditional dialogues, but the intermediate and advanced levels are authentic texts--so maybe it suits advanced students more.

http://chinese.rutgers.edu/content_cs.htm

This is for example one of the texts about Chinese names:--although I'm thinking whether this is too difficult because of the vocabulary. What do you think?

相对欧美严格的�?��??制度，中国人的�?��??方法就�?�活多了。中国人往往把希望寄托
在孩�?的�??字上，而且�??字还常常�??映了历�?�的�?��?，社会的�?�展以�?�政治背景。如果把
有典型特徵的中国人�??汇集一下，足�?�以从中获得�?少感性资料。

先从乳�??说起。大多�?�到父�?或祖父�?钟爱的孩�?，都会有一个乳�??。其中“�?�?�?�?
“�?�?�?�?“�?乖�?�?“毛毛�? 之类相当普�??。

�?说学�??。旧时儿童一上学，就应有个正�?学�??了。学�??的�??堂相当多，有人用房屋
的结构�??称给男孩�?��??，望其�?�??，于是先後育出了“�?�?�?�?“�?栋�?�?“�?柱�?等
兄弟。

在大陆，人们给女孩�?��??字，以往总喜欢选用“淑�?�?“贤�?�?“贞�?�?“莲�?等
字。到了五�??年代末“大跃进�?，中国政府决心在几年之内在�?济上超过英国�?美国等�?�
达国家。从“超英�?，“超美�?，“跃进�?等�??字中，�?用问人们马上就知�?�这些人出生
的年代。六�??年代，文化大�?�命的强劲东风�?�把“�?�东�?，“文�?��?等�?�得家喻户晓。

当然也有许多�??字与政治和社会�?�展无关。大部分中国人希望自己孩�?的�??字�?仅念
起�?�好�?�，�?�义好，而且�?��?会与他人�??字�?�?。越�?�越多的中国人�?�到了良好的教育，
多数家庭�?��?�有一个孩�?，所有父�?都希望他们“�?�?�?的�??字最动�?�。�?�时孩�?的�??
字�?�从�?�一方�?��??映了父�?的知识水平，所以很多父�?都在起�??的“竞赛�?中拼�??。

�?�?�社会的�?�展，人们已�?�?�?�传统�?维方�?的�?�缚，在追求个性的�?�时，也希望
自己的�??字独具一格。中国的传统文化和文字的丰富�?�义，使中国人�??显得多姿多采。

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Copying characters

Website of a Chinese writing software.
http://mysite.verizon.net/tomyee3/WriteChinese.htm

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jiao zi (dumplings) and chopsticks

Hi Lilian,

I found these about making Jiaozi:
http://www.msdiy.cn/vd.php?id=76
http://youtube.com/watch?v=F6AsQB1jK-M&feature=related

These are in English but maybe you can dub them:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JjXcjdOPBHY&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ggF5Uupe_VU&feature=related

There are quite a few about using chopsticks. This one is just funny:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VLsBvNNWAA0&feature=related

"Spring Festival food" seems to be too broad to search--do you mean the banquet scenes? The food I think can be just any food depending on the regions and family preferences. Maybe you can narrow down your search? For specific dishes it would be easy to find pictures through google....

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National Chinese Language Conference

Professor Connie Walker sent this info on National Chinese Language Conference:

National Chinese Language Conference
Building Global Competence of U.S. Students:
Making Chinese Accessible for All

April 17-19, 2008
Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C.

More info at: http://www.askasia.org/chinese/announcements/nclc_program.htm

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youcube

Hi everyone,

This is the Chinese version of youtube, with a lot more stuff in Chinese:
http://www.youku.com/

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Insects, ugh!

Hi Sherri,

Here are two videos with insects and butterflies. The second one is in English, but maybe you can match it with some other recording...

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_co00XMTcxMDk3NDQ=.html

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ype1Ik-k7VE&feature=related

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China the beautiful

This is a great website named "China the beautiful", great for learning about Chinese culture:

http://chinapage.com/main2.html

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CARLA offers $600 stipends for LCTL teachers to attendsummer institutes

Martha kindly provides this info:

To support the improvement of instruction of Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs), the University of Minnesota's National Resource Centers offer a limited number of $600 stipends for LCTL teachers to help defray the cost of attending any of the CARLA summer institutes. The University NRCs--the Consortium for the Study of the Asias (CSA), the European Studies Consortium (ESC) and the Institute for Global Studies (IGS)--are funded by the U.S. Department of Education and sponsor this program as part of their mission to support LCTL teachers.

Applications are due by April 11, 2008. European LCTL teachers see: http://www.esc.umn.edu/CARLA.htm
http://ecommunication.umn.edu/t/29047/2002015/17472/0/

Asian LCTL teachers see: http://asias.umn.edu/funding/k16.html
http://ecommunication.umn.edu/t/29047/2002015/17473/0/

All other LCTLs see: http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/language.html
http://ecommunication.umn.edu/t/29047/2002015/17474/0/

For more details about the stipend program see: http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/scholarships.html
http://ecommunication.umn.edu/t/29047/2002015/17475/0/

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We teach Chinese!

March 28, 2008

job opening--Yinghua Academy

March 26, 2008

Made by China

March 20, 2008

China Day--April 18th at Northrop

Seeking Chinese students and faculty�?--principals forum

March 17, 2008

China blog list.org

March 14, 2008

"Have to love"

March 12, 2008

Jay Chou Fearless

Rutgers Chinese

March 10, 2008

Copying characters

March 7, 2008

jiao zi (dumplings) and chopsticks

March 5, 2008

National Chinese Language Conference

youcube

Insects, ugh!

March 3, 2008

China the beautiful

March 2, 2008

CARLA offers $600 stipends for LCTL teachers to attendsummer institutes