The weblog up and disappeared! Actually, we just moved the weblog along with the wiki to the new and improved Community section of ChinesePod.com. We are also happy to announce that the Community section will also host the ChinesePod Forum. Marc & Bazza are busy with the move and will have the Forum […]
Archive for the 'Product Features' Category
Where is the Weblog?
Published by June 12th, 2006 in Uncategorized, Product Features, About ChinesePod and News. 6 CommentsHow to use ChinesePod Lesson Plans
Published by June 11th, 2006 in Product Features, About ChinesePod and News. 3 CommentsSeveral weeks back we started publishing lesson plans as part of our daily lesson pods. Our lesson plans are designed to help you structure face-to-face practice sessions with a native Mandarin speaker our fellow learner.
ChinesePod users working or traveling in China have opportunities to talk with native Mandarin speakers as soon as they open […]
The Saturday Show
Published by June 7th, 2006 in Product Features, About ChinesePod and News. 22 CommentsWe strive to make learning Mandarin as easy as possible here at ChinesePod. Practical language, charasmatic teachers and useful learning tools. All well and good Monday to Friday but come the weekend it’s time to relax, kickback and have a little fun. Drum roll please Aric ………………. introducing “The Saturday Show”.
That’s right The […]
Lesson Sets added to Learning Center
Published by June 1st, 2006 in Product Features, About ChinesePod and News. 11 CommentsWe have added a new feature to the Learning Center - predefined Lesson Sets. Lesson Sets are 16 lesson courses for Beginner level learners. Lesson Sets are designed to solve a particular problem. The first two lesson sets we have added are Business and Travel. Find the Lesson Set you want to study […]
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 […]
Tech Update - Vocab Builder
Published by March 17th, 2006 in Tech, Product Features and About ChinesePod. 24 CommentsOver the past week we have separated out a new section called the “Vocab Builder”. New additions here:
Addition of a “Wiki” Word Type
We have gotten a lot of feedback that the English definitions for many words are incorrect or just plain awkward. The original dictionary we used was based on the CEDICT project. A […]
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 […]
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 […]
Just a note that a new ‘wildcard’ function has been added to the Flashcards. As with most things we do around here at ChinesePod this was a user request so that they could add translations in their own language (i.e. other than English) to make review even easier. We have also changed the PDF […]
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