iSpeak Chinese Phrasebook, Olympic Edition » (Bilingual)

Alex Chapin is an Educational Technologist at Middlebury College specializing in technologies for second language acquisition. Currently he has been collaborating in CodeLab in development of a number of open source curricular systems including the Segue Collaborative Learning System and systems for managing digital assets, assessments and knowledge bases as well as a standards-based framework and architecture for building database-driven web applications known as Harmoni. He has received a grant from the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) that supports some of this work. He is the multimedia designer of "Fluent Tibetan: The Vocabulary and Dialogues," a CD-ROM for learning Tibetan.

Jin Zhang is a lecturer in Chinese at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

See it. Hear it. Speak it.

Put 1,600 Mandarin Chinese phrases in your pocket and enjoy one of sport's greatest spectacles without getting lost in translation.

1. Go to “Artist”—Choose the theme you want.
2. Go to “Album”—Select your topic within the theme.
3. Select the phrase you want to hear—You will not only hear the phrase but also see it on your iPod screen!

Missed it? Just click and repeat the track as many times as you need! Or create your own playlist to keep favorite phrases handy.

With iSpeak, you're in control!

For use on your: iPod • iPod nano • iPhone • Zune

Screen images will vary between iPod models.

Contains one MP3 audio disc and 64-page booklet.

Requires 300MB of free space.

iPod is a trademark of Apple, Inc., registered in the

United States and other countries.

Zune is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation,

Inc., in the United States and other countries.

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Alex Chapin is an Educational Technologist at Middlebury College specializing in technologies for second language acquisition. Currently he has been collaborating in CodeLab in development of a number of open source curricular systems including the Segue Collaborative Learning System and systems for managing digital assets, assessments and knowledge bases as well as a standards-based framework and architecture for building database-driven web applications known as Harmoni. He has received a grant from the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) that supports some of this work. He is the multimedia designer of "Fluent Tibetan: The Vocabulary and Dialogues," a CD-ROM for learning Tibetan.

Jin Zhang is a lecturer in Chinese at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.