I will chat with Aggie Xiang on the Saturday Show tomorrow about the 8 Week Program. Here’s, some more information about it:
Welcome 8-Week Program Subscribers! In this area you will receive your lesson plan, see your progress tracking from your counselor and receive other updates.
Not a subscriber yet but want more information?
With the 8-Week program, you can fit 40 hours of studying (including 6 hours of spoken practice with a ChinesePod counselor) easily into your day to day routine, and make significant progress in just 8 weeks.
First, your ChinesePod counselor (native Mandarin speakers with extensive teaching experience of course) will meet with you/call you for a needs analysis. They’ll plan out a personal Study Plan for you with 40 lessons over 8 weeks. You then receive a phone call every weekday for a ten minute session to practice the day’s lesson. This will help you to consolidate, correct your grammar/pronunciation, or answer questions.
Ten minutes? Any one can fit that into their schedule (yes, even you). Schedule your call for your lunch break, the commute to work, coffee break, or any time that’s convenient. (Currently only during Shanghai office hours, but this will be a 24/7 service very soon!)
It’s easy to fit studying, practicing and reviewing into your routine. You’ll cover forty lessons in just 8 weeks. With the personal attention of your own counselor and daily practice when and where you want it, you’ll be speaking better Chinese than you thought possible in just 8 weeks.
Click here to view pricing and payment, or send us an email to chinesepod@gmail.com if you have any questions.
I’ll explain in a later post later why I think this program is significant.
Ken Carroll
I’ve been doing the 8-Week Course (code name: The Octagon) for three weeks now and I love it. Folks who want to see it in action before they make a decision can also check out my blog here on the ChinesePod site. Just click my name above and you’ll be taken there.
Short answer? Well worth the time and money. I’ve already made significant progress in my studies.
Ken,
Do you know any similar program for those who are learning English?
Your site and approach is great, but you know what? To use it I should know English pretty well. I’m Russian, and if I wanted to learn Chinese as a newbie with ChinesePod I would know English first. Despite the popularity of Web2.0 tools for learning there is still this “small” problem — English as a prime language.
Do you have any ideas how to make such services like yours less dependent on English? I understand that your audience is primary “born with English” and this is because of a credit card payments issue, but anyway, any ideas on this matter?