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This recently was given to our lab by the East Asian Studies Department:

A Chinese vocabulary "tutor" that consists of boxes and boxes and boxes of
manila cards with a magnetic strip on each of them that can be run through
an electronic  reader and, depending upon the speed with which you fling it
through you can have very fast Chinese sounds or painfully slow and
somewhat montone Chinese sounds.  But the strip is only long enough for one
or two words...so creating audible sentences with this technology is an
aerobic activity...cards flying, strips swiping...

Barbara


Barbara Sawhill
Director
Cooper International Learning Center (The Language Lab)
Oberlin College

phone: 440-775-8595   fax: 440-775-6888

The Language Lab website: http://www.oberlin.edu/ilc

"The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what
you're doing, someone else does."