You can read what the folks over at Podcast Alley are saying about ChinesePod here.
Ken Carroll
Archive for May, 2006
Some months ago we launched a Japanese version of ChinesePod - Mandarin lessons delivered in Japanese for a Japanese audience. Since then we haven’t seen the level of traction we would like to see and so we’ve decided to retire it for the moment.
Part of our approach here is to experiment and try new things. […]
Hey,
Quick note on some production changes we’ve made, per your suggestions:
As many are listening to the shows 4-5 times, we’ve done away with any produced intros as to get right to the lesson.
No more music will be played during the dialog, so you can pay perfect attention to tones (seeing how you’ve seen the […]
Our first Lesson Plan
Published by May 22nd, 2006 in Product Features, Learning Chinese and About ChinesePod. 6 CommentsWe are happy to announce the arrival of our first Lesson Plan (well actually the second but who is counting). Starting with today’s lesson “Do you have vegetables?” our daily Lesson Pods will include a lesson plan.
The purpose of the lesson plan is to provide you and your teacher/study partner with some examples of […]
New Community Section
Published by May 22nd, 2006 in Tech, About ChinesePod and User Feedback. 6 CommentsWe have started to notice a number of bloggers writing about their experiences learning Chinese and using ChinesePod. We feel that this information is quite valuable and have been trying to find ways to bring this knowledge back into the community as a whole.
So, we have added the ability for subscribers to link […]
Here’s something I want to ask: Do you generally find it easier to make female friends than male friends in China? I’ve been here for 12 years and I have some male friends, but not many, and I have to say no close ones. Culturally I’ve always found a gap there […]
For those of you who are interested in ‘Web 2.0′, whatever that is, Tim O Reilly’s recent commencement address may be of interest. Although O’ Reilly has been hugely influential on the thinking at ChinesePod, he doesn’t have anything t say about languages, still less about Mandarin. If you read through is speech, however, […]
Time goes fast when you are having fun. A couple of weeks back we passed the 200 podcast mark. To mark the ocassion and make consuming our podcast audio lessons easier, we have just released a new BitTorrent file for lessons 100 - 200. The Torrent file is available inside the Podcast […]
Here’s what’s on the way next week:
Monday - Elementary: Eat Your Vegetables
Tuesday - Advanced: Graduation
Wednesday - Newbie: I Miss You!
Thursday - Intermediate - 1949
Friday - Elementary - Do I Look Good?
Right-enjoy the weekend-it’s gorgeous here!
Aric
In the next couple of weeks we’re going on a content binge, as it were. We’ll be writing a whole slew of new materials with some fresh ideas and a few experiments, all based on your feedback. We’ll include lots of lexical patterns in the podcasts, plus the exercises (and in the PDFs???).
Here […]
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