反式脂肪 (fan3shi4 zhi1fang2)
trans fat
Trans fat, also known as trans fatty acid, is made through the chemical process of hydrogenation of oils. It has been making headlines as consumers become aware that the artery-clogging fat is lurking in many food products, including fried fast food.
醋溜族 (cu4liu1zu2)
trendy clan
A group of metropolitan youth is happily caught in the […]
Archive for February, 2006
As a guy in my 40s I may be older than many of our Chinese learners. Anyway, here’s my problem with learning Chinese: vocabulary. In the old days (ah, the old days!) I used to retain vocabulary really quickly. If is was a European language, quite often I would retain a […]
Steve Williams does a very clear job of explaining how to use ChinesePod in this tutorial. These suggestions are practical and allow you to maximize the service.
Within this, I think there also remains a great deal of flexibility in how ChinesePod can be used. I’d be interested to hear from you about how, when, […]
自由行 (zi4you2xing2)
self-guided tour
This has become an increasingly popular form of travel with urban residents in China, especially among the young people. Having hotel and transport arranged by travel agencies and the itinerary totally controlled in their own hands, the travelers can enjoy the convenience of a package tour and the freedom of backpacking travel.
跑龙套 (pao3long2tao4)
walk-on
The […]
We recently created a flash presentation to provide some guidance to new users on how to use ChinesePod. As many of you will agree a little instruction was long over due. So how to draw attention to this new resource? Put a link on the homepage. But not just a text […]
1. Exporting of Wordbank
There was an encoding issue when exporting wordbank terms using a Mac. While exporting to a txt file is still buggy on a Mac, the export to an xml file should work. Many Mac users have requested integration with iFlash and we are working on that next.
2. Wordbank Update
We have added […]
BitTorrent Archive Downloads
Published by February 16th, 2006 in Tech and Product Features. 9 CommentsTo help make downloading the archives a little quicker we have started to put up BitTorrent file links to help support P2P downloading (basically the more people who download the archived file the quicker the download is).
ChinesePod Episodes 001-100
ChinesePod Episodes 101-120
In the future these will be in the Podcast Archive submenu.
If you are […]
If you look on the home page, top right corner, you’ll see a link menu that offers an English or a Japanese version of ChinesePod. Click on the Japanese link and you’ll be taken to ChinesePod Japan. There, the hosts (one Japanese , one Chinese) take our lessons and deliver them to a Japanese […]
On Sunday, I met with Pete Lawrence, a guy who has been using ChinesePod for some weeks now. He had a lot to say about the service and I was grateful for his feedback.
Pete described what he called a ChinesePod “wow” moment. That came when (sitting in a taxi) he […]
We put up a link on ChinesePod.com today to help facilitate our English-speaking Chinese students to find a Chinese-speaking English students (we have about 300 registered so far) to meet up in person or chat using various IM or VoIP programs. Providing a language exchange via Skype with is the most common request we […]
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