Computer Delivers Chinese to Home

By Kate Tsubata, Washington Times (Opinion)

10/5/08

One of the advantages of home-schooling is the range of technologies constantly being developed that we can use for our families' education.

If, like many millions of families, yours followed the Beijing Olympics, you may have become curious about the Chinese language, one of the oldest on the planet, and spoken by about 1 billion of the world's inhabitants.

Last night, I sat down at my computer and had a Chinese language lesson conducted by a teacher who happened to be sitting at her computer in Beijing.