What is the ideal lesson graphic?
With the launch of V3, we got one message loud and clear: the ideal lesson graphic is not a random stock photo. Fair enough. It’s not that we’re stock photo aficionados; in this case using stock photos was the best way to get the graphics all done for the crossover […]
Author Archive for John Pasden
You’ve been asking for it, and we’ve been preparing it. The 500 lesson torrent file is now ready for download. We hope you downloaders have reasonably large hard drives, because this baby is bursting with 3.1 GB of pedagogical pleasure. In it you will find:
500 ChinesePod podcast lessons of all levels, spanning our entire history
An […]
John here. Some of you have asked for a list of the lessons in the system. It shouldn’t be surprising that I, as academic director, possess such a list. I’ve been pretty busy fixing all the issues with old lessons while simultaneously producing new content, but I have put together some spreadsheets for our users.
The […]
We have started a separate page for “known issues.” The issues listed there are not typos or individual lesson issues, but larger site issues. Take a look at it before reporting a bug. We will be updating this page frequently.
Check it out: V3 Known Issues
-John
Pinyin Guide and Listening Test Makeovers
Published by March 27th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 12 CommentsLong-time ChinesePod users are familiar with the Listening Test we developed a while back, as well as our pinyin chart, which provided all the syllables of Mandarin Chinese in all the tones in an easily clickable format. V3 is taking these two resources to the next step.
The most obvious change with the Listening Test and […]
Yes, ChinesePod has been promising a grammar guide for a while now. There’s a good reason that it has not yet appeared. Basically, an entire language’s grammar is a lot of information, and we want to organize it well. With the help of the Academic Team, I’ve been working on the Grammar Guide since the […]
ChinesePod Version 3 takes a slightly different approach to the body of nearly 500 lessons we have been calling the “Lesson Archive.” The word “archive” alone seems to conjure images of a musty old library, a place where only crotchety professors “rummage through the stacks” and where so much human knowledge goes to die. But […]
Using Lesson Sets
Published by January 18th, 2007 in Product Features and About ChinesePod. 7 CommentsChinesePod’s lessons are independent, and, for the most part, non-sequential. This is actually one of our lessons’ greatest strengths. When lessons do not explicitly build upon each other, they can be selected and arranged in an infinite number of ways, creating a course of study tailored to the individual’s needs and interests. We are still […]
Hilarious clip of a foreigner in China:
(Via the 88s.)
The ChinesePod slogan is “Mandarin on your terms.” We give you the tools; you use them in whatever fashion best suits your personal learning style. What better Chinese learning opportunity could there be for the enthusiastic, intrepid students of Chinese out there?
This is all well and good, but what about the slightly more timid users? […]
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