If you’ve been missing NGT’s summer Chinese lessons, log on to Chinese Pod. It offers podcast conversations between expats and natives on everything from dating to making a marketing presentation. (No worries, beginner dialogues have plenty of English explanation and commentary.)
Why learn Chinese?
All the cool kids are doing it. Plus, as you probably know, China is a rapidly emerging market and opportunities abound….
· It is already the second-largest Internet market
· Online ad revenue increased by 20% in 2005, at a rate faster than the growth of the country’s GDP.
· The number of mobile internet users went up by 30% over the second half of 2006
· China’s luxury market is growing at 50 to 60 % annually (about 12% of world demand)
At NGT, we see Asian Youth as the leaders of Global Youth Tribe, steering our digital future. Woven into the curriculum will be examples of Chinese youth culture, emerging trends, and websites.
All are welcome to join, but if you cannot attend, we’re posting notes and podcasts of every lesson here. The best way to learn is practice, so download, read, and repeat….
Lesson 1 Podcast 
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Lesson 2 Podcast (right click “Save Target As” for IE users, or “Save Link As” for Firefox)
Lesson 5: I, Today, At Home, Eat Rice!
All our podcasts are also available on iTunes!
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A bit about the instructor: Our intern Marc Matthews took a 10 week crash course in Mandarin at the Missionary Training Center when he was assigned to live in Taiwan as a missionary for the LDS Church. He spent the next two years working and living with the Taiwanese people. At the completion of his assignment in Taiwan, he returned to Brigham Young University where he is majoring in Mandarin Chinese. In September, he’ll be studying at Nanjing University in China for 4 months.
