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Dr Kan is Lecturer in Chinese and Module Chair for Beginners' Chinese at The Open University

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Entering the Dragon: Chinese New Year Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image Heather Bickle under CC-BY licence

By Dr Qian Kan (The Open University)

20 January 2012

As we enter an auspicious year in the Chinese horoscope, a guide to making your new year wishes - and what the start of the...  Read more : Entering the Dragon: Chinese New Year

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As cute as a pandaCreative Commons Image By fortherock via Flickr under Creative Commons license

By Dr Qian Kan (The Open University)

13 December 2011

To celebrate the arrival of giant pandas Yangguang and Tiantian to Edinburgh Zoo, Dr Qian Kan teaches us how to talk about pandas in Chinese    Read more : As cute as a panda

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Chinese application: A new way to start a languageQian Kan

By Dr Qian Kan (The Open University)

20 June 2011

Why is an app an ideal way to learn a new language? Qian Kan, one of the team behind The Open University's course Beginner's Chinese...  Read more : Chinese application: A new way to start a language

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Kan, Qian (2012). From 'Chinese in Steps' to 'First Steps' – A case study on converting classroom-based teaching materials to suit distance Chinese language teaching. Chinese Language in the World(1), (In press).

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Biography

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Dr Kan moved to the UK from China in 1988. She gained a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Lancaster before translating and broadcasting for the BBC World Service and teaching Chinese at the University of Cambridge. She joined The Open University in 2009 to help create the course Beginner’s Chinese, for which she is module chair.

Dr Kan has also written many Chinese learning resources, including Colloquial Chinese for Routledge.

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