One of the more frequent requests here at ChinesePod is for us to provide practice teachers, study partners or language exchanges either to meet in person or just converse using VoIP. We think it would be rather difficult for us to manage all this, so instead we have decided to help facilitate this kind of ‘matchmaking’ through a new website. We hope to launch it in a few weeks, but would like to ask what do you think are the 10 must important attributes to judge a language podcast? We have come up with a few: audio quality, production quality, effectiveness and host charisma, but frankly we would prefer the input of our users.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
10 important attributes, maybe to be rated 1-5 or similar, not in any order (stupid examples of what the extremes of the scale might represent)
1. Audio quality (”you think I can get the tones with this !?” - “like you’re right next me”)
2. Host charisma
3. Difficulty level is correctly labeled (”too easy/hard compared to labeled level”, “perfect, challenging but understandable”)
4. Length (to short/ to long)
5. Usefulness of learned expression/vocab (”no idea when this might be used?”, “give me a Chinese friend, I want to use these right now!”)
6. Balance between the amount of new expressions/vocab compared to old (”Nothing new../too much new words at once”)
7. How fun/entertaining it was (”fell asleep”, “never thought learning could be this fun!”)
8. Extras (cultural comments, special uses of words etc.)
9. Transcript (”are you sure that this transcript is for this lesson?” , “it’s all there”)
10. Description’s and title’s relevance to what is actually said
I hope that makes some sence
普通话，英国话，我都说的很不好