Dr. Erik Zucher, head of the Sinology Institute and director of the project, says that his initiation into Chinese studies as an undergraduate was a matter of plodding his way through ancient texts word by word.
當時最摩登的教具，是一台木製唱頭的留聲機，「林格風」中文教材咿咿啞啞地「講著難聽的故事」。