Free Class! June 26, 2009
Posted by windstonepress in Richard Goodman's Blog.Tags: chinese, chinese medicine, classical Chinese medical texts, classical chinese medicine, free Chinese class
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I’m really excited about this announcement. I’ve decided to put together a free online course for Classical Chinese Medical Texts Vol I. The idea came to me while brainstorming ways to help make the book more useful. While this book was designed so that people could study on their own, having more structure and some instruction will certainly help. This class is meant to give readers the motivation and help they need to get through the the entire book and understand everything within. As I have said before, studying classical Chinese is no easy task and I’m willing to do whatever it takes to help people learn how to read it.
The course begins on July 15th. I am planning a total of 15 weekly lessons, but may add more. The main part of the course will be a podcast that will follow the book from beginning to end (15 weeks, 15 chapters). Each podcast will have it’s own web page where the course material can be played or downloaded. There will also be a space for comments, questions, links, and additional material to help you study. We might even try to get a chat feature going so that we can all interact.
The great thing about the internet is that we will be able to keep the information online for people who buy the book later. They will have access to all the files, links, comments, questions, and everything that we do in those 15 weeks. I will keep up with the comments and questions even after the 15 weeks. Essentially, this course will continue as long as the internet does. This means if anyone falls behind, no pressure-the information will always be there.
If you are interested in following the class as we do it, go to http://classicalmedicine.wordpress.com and bookmark the page. This is where the class will be hosted and all detailed announcements will happen there. I’m really looking forward to the class and I hope you can participate!
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I agree, that chinese is really hard to understand especially in their language which is composed of five tones; but if you have the will, I’m sure you can do it.
Would it be possible to rebroadcast these 15 lessons? I am just beginning to work with your book, in an online discussion group. It would be very helpful to have this resource to go along with your book!
Sorry, that was an old link. I have changed the link in the above post. The class is ongoing and all of the parts will be available at any time you want to download them. Click http://classicalmedicine.wordpress.com/ for more details.
Only seven classes are done so far and it has turned into a much more casual project than originally intended :)