James Coombs

Jamescoombs.com is live! Wow, it's been quite a while since I had a proper online home where I can regularly pen my thoughts. This new site is designed to be a “catch all” site where I can post and update about anything I'm currently interested in.

When attempting to re-build my website in the past the mistake I made was to focus the websites look and feel on the one thing I was interested in at the time of making. Needless to say, me being the eclectic individual I like to believe I am, I would often find that by the time I had finished building the site I would want to write about something different to the sites focus.

I've been wanting to study Mandarin for a while now but up until recently it was little more then an idle wish. However when I discovered Chinesepod about a month ago I realized that this was a way I could go about the daunting task in a way that wouldn't take up a huge amount of my time. After all, when your walking to the shops or doing house chores you can't very well be studying or working on much. Not so with Chinesepod. The lessons are split into bite size chunks of around 10 minutes which I can listen to anywhere with my trusty blackberry although an ipod or similar would work just as well.