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Archive for October, 2005
In our continued effort to deliver more and more value to our subscribers, for today’s podcast we have added sample sentences for the Supplementary Vocabulary terms and the ability to add all these terms to your Word Bank with one-click. Next Monday, we will also be adding audio for the sample sentences. If […]
Change in Publishing Schedule
Published by October 17th, 2005 in Tech and Product Features. 2 CommentsJust an announcement that we will be changing the publishing time from 00:01 Shanghai time to 09:00 starting tomorrow. For reference Shanghai is 7 hours ahead of London, 12 hours ahead of East Coast USA & 15 hours ahead of West Coast USA. We are making this change to better ensure the quality […]
Here’s a useful little lesson on the 4 tones.
We’ve had quite a few comments on the tones recently. I’ll do another lesson on those soon.
Ken
Hank posted some numbers below concerning the price of Mandarin lessons here in Shanghai. Allow me to offer my two bits, as it were.
For the Mandarin learner there are two costs: Time and money. Since these are related, it is useful to manage them simultaneously and as efficiently as possible. […]
On ChinesePod we’ve chosen to use simplified characters because they are the ones you are most likely to see on mainland China.
Traditional characters tend to have more brush strokes but they look better (and more complicated). In terms of recognition, it is possibly easier to identify the meanings of the simplified characters. Writing […]
We have had many questions about the USD20/month, or ~RMB160, (for yearly payment) cost of our premium subscription. We feel that it is important to make ChinesePod a business so that we can continue to produce hundreds of more podcasts and continually improve the tools in the Learning Center. With no disrespect intended […]
Our feature on the recently launched Yahoo! Podcasts resulted in a big increase in users of the site and reader feedback. Future improvements to ChinesePod are driven by user suggestions, so please continue to let us know your thoughts, suggestions and criticisms.
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ChinesePod
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transcription of dialogs in chinese caracters
Patrice | France
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A more organized front page with […]
Podcasting will change the rules of the game
Published by October 15th, 2005 in About ChinesePod. 0 CommentsOne of the great advantages of podcasting technology is it’s timeliness. Here’s why we get excited about that: We can respond immediately to your requests, or to the news and events of the day. Within hours, we can incorporate that information into the lesssons and get them to you without delay.
Thus far we […]
This teacher sees teaching Chinese as a matter of pronunciation. “Chinese is jaw breaking but fun”.
Believe me, you do not want to end up in a classroom with her.
Ken
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