December 27th, 2007 | by chris | published in chinese language, learning Chinese
Here’s a fun little promo video that we made for GuavaTalk. Please forward it on to your friends!
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December 26th, 2007 | by chris | published in chinese language, learning Chinese, life in China
Steve, our CFO, and I had lunch at Lush today, which is just around the corner from our offline school 1on1 Mandarin. It’s a cozy upstairs cafe that is open 24/7 and serves convincing American brunch, burgers, salads and sandwiches. I happened to overhear an older gentlemen asking about what I thought sounded like bao1 zi1. If you [...]
December 25th, 2007 | by chris | published in personal
Yesterday we had a small Christmas party for the staff at GuavaTalk, which includes all of the teachers at our offline language school in Beijing, 1on1Mandarin. We ended up going to a local hotel in Wudaokou called the Wenjin hotel to have Korean food. Afterwards, we went downstairs for a few hours of [...]
December 24th, 2007 | by chris | published in company
The mantra of GuavaTalk is to bring affordable online learning to the world. Our first product is GuavaTalk Chinese. Our hope over the next six months is to introduce to the world some amazing Chinese teachers, unique pedagogy, and excellent content and use cool enabling technology to deliver it to learners all over [...]