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Providing a Free Intensive Chinese Weekend Stay Program in New York City

by hagiwara on October 2, 2011 · No Comments

My wife and I decided to provide a program named “Intensive Chinese Weekend Stay” in New York. In this program, we invite a learner of the Chinese language for free to our home and provide an intensive learning course. Intensive Chinese Weekend Stay Program (New York City) Part of the reasons why we started this [...]

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Launching Your First Meetup

by hagiwara on July 16, 2011 · No Comments

Last Wednesday, we held our first meet-up meeting of East Asian Language Learning through Interpretation Methods. The purpose is to brush up your language skills (we target at East Asian languages, namely Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) through interpretation methods. Although this was our first time to even set up a meetup group, it was quite [...]

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An (Yet Another) Asian Language Learning Meet-up

by hagiwara on June 30, 2011 · No Comments

I think I’m a quick learner when it comes to languages. After learning several languages (some of which are successful, others are not), I found that the effective ways to learn languages do not vary very much from one language to another — reading aloud, repetition, and shadowing, which are actually used well-established training methods [...]

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