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Serge Melnyks Learn Mandarin Chinese Weblog

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This blog accompanies the Learn Chinese with Serge Melnyk Podcast. Serge often has info about updates as well as some general info about tones and different aspects of learning Mandarin Chinese.

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A blog about learning Mandarin Chinese for everyone who learns Mandarin.

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Podcast removed from iTunes

Hi all, I have noticed that my podcast has been removed from iTunes. I suspect it’s because my latest lesson featured a song ‘Welcome to Beijing’ which is an official song of the Beijing Olympic Games. I didn’t think much and made a lesson on this song just because one of my listeners made a [...]

Posted Sun, 2008-08-17 02:01

Podcast feed still blocked from China

Regarding the complains from some listeners that they can’t access my podcast in iTunes from China, I decided to test the connection from servers in Beijing and Shanghai. As you can see on this chart, connecting to the feedburner (where I host my podcast) is fine from anywhere in the world except China. Access [...]

Posted Thu, 2008-06-05 06:44