Mandarin Practice Exams on ACTDEN E-Learning

Today we launched the Delta School District Challenge Exam Practice Centre for Mandarin 12. Using our background in testing platforms (TOEFL, TOEIC, UK accounting exams, nursing, legal), we added a sophisticated testing engine to the ACTDEN E-learning platform. The Mandarin 12 exam has two versions and supports both Simplified and Traditional Chinese exams. The practice exam is a full simulation with reading, listening, speaking, and writing sections.

The test costs C$25 and enables students to take a practice Mandarin 12 test online. This is a helpful and convenient service for students across the province preparing to take this exam. Interested students can order a practice exam here through our partner ILC Interactive Communications.

In British Columbia, students with Mandarin as their mother tongue can choose to skip the course, take the Challenge Exam to obtain provincial credit for the course, and meet their second language requirement. By the end of 2009, we expect to have Challenge Practice exams for other languages and subjects available from the ACTDEN E-learning platform as well.

Sickenglish.com Revised

Our crew has been working on the Sickenglish.com concept for some time now, and after months of discussion (and believe me when I say months), we decided to simplify the project and stick to slang words and pop culture.Our Hollywood connections didn't quite work out the way we wanted, but that's fine, we will go ahead with the prototype first and see how the business shapes up before we involve the A-listers.

This past week, we hired our first two pop culture tutors and prepared our first set of lessons. These will be distributed on Youtube shortly, with background articles posted on www.sickenglish.com.

Here is the first video showing C-Smooth and T-Pow on sickenglish.com. They are both hilarious, especially in scenes where they are together. Chinese readers will understand the post at the end.