May 1st, 2008 | by chris | published in company
Sorry for the long delay in posting. It’s a blogging faux pas, but things have been busy both professionally and personally! Still, it’s no excuse. Fortunately, I have a number of different updates.
1. We are pleased to announce that on May 14th, 2008 at 9 pm Eastern we will be having a free online public […]
February 24th, 2008 | by chris | published in learning Chinese, company
We haven’t created a good demo video yet for Mandarin 2.0 in the online environment, but because spring orientation day is happening tomorrow for our offline school, 1on1 Mandarin, we put together a fun little video to show our new students how they can request any topic they want at any time during their classes […]
February 21st, 2008 | by chris | published in chinese language, learning Chinese, company
I used to be a management consultant, so I used to create Powerpoint slides every day, and I once thought the only tangible skill I had was creating slide presentations! That might not seem like a great skill to have, but I will argue that Powerpoint is a powerful tool for communication when used […]
February 19th, 2008 | by chris | published in learning Chinese, company
Several of our online students are currently using Mandarin 2.0, which is our unique communicative methodology for teaching Mandarin conversation. We love it because we have created a methodology based on modern 2nd Language acquisition theory, which gives students a safe environment to advance rapidly in speaking and listening, in the areas and subjects […]
February 19th, 2008 | by chris | published in learning Chinese, company
At least 5 people emailed me recently about this article in the New York Times about learning languages online. Funny thing is that my twin brother, Mike, is a New York Times reporter, and that day had mentioned that he wanted to email a few editors about our company. I guess we missed out […]
January 10th, 2008 | by chris | published in company
The vast majority of our initial sign-ups from around the world have been friends and friends of friends, so we have been trying to figure out how to reward our friends for their help.
We have come up with a GuavaTalk Affiliate program. It is pretty simple.
Email us at service ‘at’ guavatalk.com […]
January 10th, 2008 | by chris | published in company
For facebook lovers, we have created a GuavaTalk fan group. Please join and help us spread the word about our service! When you join, we will show up as a product or service that you are a “fan” of on your facebook profile. If you can do this, we’ll be VERY appreciative.
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January 5th, 2008 | by chris | published in company
The beta web-site has now been out for over a week, and we have been getting great feedback on it! This is definitely rewarding. With limited advertising to friends and family, we were pleasantly surprised to get a significant number of beta customers sign-ups during the week between Christmas and New Year’s–traditionally a […]
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 […]