To celebrate Chinese New Year on February 18 and Valentine day on February 14 respectively, a new blog for www.no-time-to-read.com is created and this is the inaugeral post. This blog will also serve as the blog for www.auditiobooks.com.
For your convenience, relavant links are created. Please enjoy.
Learn Mandarin Chinese In No Time
http://www.auditiobooks.com/Chinese_new_year.html
“Dr. Blair’s Mandarin Chinese In No Time” uses audio (and a bonus featuring a traveler’s vocabulary and much more) to get you speaking Mandarin Chinese more quickly and enjoyably than you ever thought possible. With “Dr. Blair’s Mandarin Chinese In No Time”, you will:
-IMMEDIATELY learn Mandarin Chinese that you can use in real situations
-LEARN the practical applications you need
-MASTER easy and effective memory tricks
-DISCOVER ways to practice on your laptop while traveling
-REVIEW everything you learn— including Mandarin Chinese characters and pronunciations—on the interactive CD-ROM
Whether you’re a businessperson, student, or traveler, whether you’re brushing up on a forgotten language or just interested in learning a new one, “Dr. Blair’s Mandarin Chinese In No Time” teaches you the skills you need at the pace you want, jump-starting your study with a variety of methods that keep the experience fun, fresh and motivating.
Why rely on old, out-dated techniques to learn a new language? “Dr. Blair’s Mandarin Chinese In No Time” offers the up-to-the-minute advantages that you won’t hear anywhere else!
Dozen Red Roses, A: 12 Valentines Poems
Twelve specially selected favourite love poems, read by acclaimed actors Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter.
This literary bouquet of blooms includes Andrew Marvell’s classic To His Coy Mistress, a beautiful extract from The Song of Solomon, Christina Rossetti’s joyful A Birthday, and Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.
As well, there are Edward Fitzgerald’s meditations from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Lear’s comic verse The Owl and The Pussycat, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s If Thou Must Love Me, John Donne’s The Sunne Rising and lines from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Completing the dozen are Robert Burns’ My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose, Robert Herrick’s Delight in Disorder and Shakespeare’s Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.
http://www.auditiobooks.com/Title.aspx?titleId=5744&srch=valentine
Suthin Liptawat