{"id":14880,"date":"2021-07-19T12:13:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T10:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/?p=14880"},"modified":"2023-05-28T14:08:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T12:08:52","slug":"chinese-language-learning-in-the-twenty-first-century-towards-a-digital-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/chinese-language-learning-in-the-twenty-first-century-towards-a-digital-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese language learning in the twenty-first century: Towards a digital ecosystem? Interview with Julien Leyre"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Digital tools have had an enormous impact on Chinese language learning. If we take something as simple as looking up an unfamiliar character in a dictionary, the process has been changed from minutes of wasted time flipping through a printed dictionary to being able to instantly call up the meaning of a character simply by tapping on it.<\/p>\n

In the past twenty years or so, the number of digital tools and resources for learning Chinese have exploded, and the problem is no longer if there is an app for something, but if you can find the best one among the dozens or hundreds on offer. Making sense of this chaos is not easy, even for someone who spends considerable amounts of time trying to keep up.<\/p>\n

\"\"I was therefore delighted when I heard that a friend of mine, Julien Leyre, intended to write his dissertation about this very topic. I first met him through the Marco Polo Project<\/a> and he wrote a guest article about the benefits of translating from<\/i> Chinese<\/a> back in 2014. We\u2019ve since collaborated on both Hacking Chinese Resources<\/a> and Hacking Chinese Challenges<\/a>, and we have also met on several occasions when he has visited Stockholm.<\/p>\n

And now he\u2019s finished his PhD! The title of the dissertation is Chinese language learning in the twenty-first century: towards a digital ecosystem? <\/i>and earlier this year, we sat down to talk about his research, about digital resources for learning Chinese and some related questions. We actually did record video of our talk, but because of technical problems, the image quality is so low that I decided to only publish the audio in this week\u2019s episode of the Hacking Chinese Podcast. I hope you enjoy it!<\/p>\n

Tune in to the Hacking Chinese Podcast<\/a> to listen to the interview:<\/em>
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