Which Way to the Bird’s Nest? Chinese Help for Tourists.

Travel Blog  •  Julia Ross  •  08.11.08 | 11:41 AM ET

imageChinesePod, the wonderful online Mandarin language service I’ve recommended before, recently launched a companion site to help English-speakers navigate the Beijing Olympics this month. The site offers a number of downloadable Olympics-themed Mandarin lessons, plus audio translations of Olympic venue names and sporting terms like “pommel horse” and “cross-court shot.”

A quick and handy reference for the befuddled. The New York Times’s Bits blog gives it a plug here.

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* Learning Mandarin and Spanish by MP3 and Skype

Photo by neverecho via Flickr (Creative Commons).

Tags: Asia, China

Julia Ross is a Washington, DC-based writer and frequent contributor to World Hum. She has lived in China and Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright scholar and Mandarin student. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Plenty and other publications. Her essay, Six Degrees of Vietnam, was shortlisted for "The Best American Travel Writing 2009."


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