Say 'ni hao' to learning Chinese for free

[Francis Hult]

Irish Times

 

Say 'ni hao' to learning Chinese for free

 

The highways and byways of Ireland could soon be ringing with phrases such as "ni hao", "xie xie" and "bu yong ke qi" if Irish entrepreneur Ken Carroll succeeds in his plan to get the Irish to learn Mandarin Chinese.

 

The co-founder of ChinesePod, an online Chinese language learning centre with 250,000 users worldwide, is offering its service free of charge to Irish residents from now until May next year, when the Shanghai World Expo opens.

 

Full story:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/0904/1224253822380.html

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