Learning Chinese in Boston?

[anhinga_anhinga]

I wonder whether anyone who reads this blog has any particular positive recommendation. Or whether people have any (positive or negative) experiences with the Boston Language Institute (perhaps with some other language, if not with Chinese)...

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[cema.livejournal.com]

Oh! I am interested too. However, I would like to start no earlier than late April.

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

I'll probably have some experience to share by that time ;-)

If all goes as planned, that is...

[cema.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Intrigued. Knowing you... ahem. :-)

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

I have even registered for a course (!), so ask me... say... after Feb. 11 :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language

[cema.livejournal.com]

Chinese is cool. I know characters for "one", "two", "three" and "also".

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

;-) It seems that my interest in Chinese characters after going to the first class had an immediate effect ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Second-round_simplified_Chinese_character&action=history

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

Especially Chinese Google:

http://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/

Somewhat censored, however:

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2149163/google-bow-great-firewall-china

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

I'll use this thread to record other Chinese resources. This one seems to be especially useful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiandai_Hanyu_changyong_zibiao

The list of the 3500 most frequently used Simplified Chinese characters in Chinese. It was created in 1988 in the People's Republic of China.

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classification

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_%28Chinese_character%29

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kangxi_radicals

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

Google has an automated translation between English and Chinese (both ways).

Here is an English-Chinese dictionary, which might be useful:

http://www.formosa-translation.com/chinese/

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

http://njstar.com/ sells software for Chinese and Japanese. Unfortunately, not for UNIX...