If you’ve been a part of the ChinesePod community for a while, you’ll probably be admiring the new look for 2006. Read on, and you’ll discover that beauty is more than skin deep…
However, before we look at all the great new features, let’s put the changes into context by describing ChinesePod’s On Demand Training […]
Archive for December, 2005
Just a heads up that tomorrow (Fri 30th) we will be upgrading the website platform. Since we need to migrate some database tables, we will suspend website service from 10am-1pm Shanghai time. The podcasts will continue to be available without disruption.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
I’ve had a look a the ChinesePod V2 which you will be seeing on a few days. I’ll let you judge for yourselves, but it’s t’s pretty darn good, if you ask me, especially as many of the new featutes are based on your feedback.
Stay posted.
Ken Carroll 凯恩
This afternoon I met with a ChinesePod learner who offered some interesting feedback. She has been studying Mandarin for a couple of years but tends to get stuck all the time. The problem is the textbook. She has been stuck on her last lesson for several months without progressing.
Books can be like that, particularly […]
A wee bit of culture from the People’s Daily:
Surname Qu originated from the name of a place.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, king Wu of State of Chu conferred his son Xia with Qu Yi as feud to commend his outstanding service in the court, therefore the people used the name Qu Xia to […]
Fareed Zakaria is a superb writer and insightful political pundit, but this article has a slightly wanton feel to it. Perhaps the editor got carried away here - the article doesn’t quite live up to the drama of the headline
” China has grown for three decades at a pace no other country has ever […]
“Learning Chinese: Language finds place in high schools”
Published by December 20th, 2005 in About the Chinese language. 0 CommentsFrom the Dallas Morning News:
You could write a fair history of late 20th-century America just by tracking the languages high school students learned in school. At the height of the Cold War, Russian was hot, spasibo very much. Japanese boomed in the late 1980s, when it seemed the rising sun would eclipse America’s economy. And […]
Please be aware that we have implemented a new naming convention for ChinesePod podcasts. We hope that this will reduce the confusion caused after we began offering podcasts at several different levels of difficulty. This change should not impact your ability to receive podcasts. However, podcasts that you have already downloaded may […]
iTunes now has a section on podcast reviews. If you feel like it, go ahead and write up your thoughts about ChinesePod.
I also noticed an Italian podcast site recently. http://www.learnitalianpod.com/ To say that this copies us here at ChinesePod is to put it very midly. The layout is identical, the […]
Someone just tolod me she was a bit embarraassed to go to the meet up this evening. She’s a heavy user of ChinesePod but not a subscriber. No matter! Come one, come all.. Everyone is welcome.
Ken Carroll 凯恩
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