Later today we will move this blog over the Praxis Language.
We’re doing this to simplify things. I will blog at the new url and both SpanishSense and ChinesePod will link to it. My posts there will concern the broader issues - learning, web 2.0, linguistics, etc. For Chinese-specific items, I’ll post in the ‘Connect’ […]
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What does ‘learning on your terms’ really mean?
Published by May 8th, 2007 in About ChinesePod. 18 CommentsWe’ve been busy over at Praxis Language, talking about, amongst other things, the meaning behind the slogan Learning on your terms. Link.
Ken Carroll
Why are you learning Chinese?
Published by May 6th, 2007 in Learning Chinese and About ChinesePod. 39 CommentsHere’s something we haven’t talked about for a while: Why we’re all learning Chinese.
There are lots of new people entering the community since V3. I’m seeing some new ideas and attitudes - particularly in the ‘Connect’ section. Some people arrive here on a mission: they were already determined to learn Mandarin before […]
I think there’s a continuum that describes ChinesePod learners, an axis that stretches from the visionary at one end, to the pragmatist, at the other. No individual is 100% visionary, or 100% pragmatic. Instead, we all tend to fall somewhere along the line. (This type, of classification was first used by Geoffrey A Moore, […]
Some feedback on where we are with developments courtesy of Hank. We’ve been listening and trying to respond to you - Eileen alone answered 170 emails yesterday. (Poor thing.)
1. bookmarked lessons
- hurting usability; user saves but doesn’t understand need to schedule lessons
- solution: changed Lesson List to Scheduled Lessons, adding Bookmarked Lesson to help make […]
As we go through the day you’re welcome to post your ‘discovering V3′ observations.
1. My first insight for you: The Saturday Show can be found here: http://extra.chinesepod.com/
2. A question: “Im having bit of a problem finding my lessons from previous site. If I look at the lessons in the explore section, it shows […]
Today is V3 day. We’re working right now on the new servers, migrating data and so on. My hope is that we’re done within a few hours, but please don’t take this as gospel.
Logging in will be exactly as before. We have given you all new user names, but you will be able to change […]
There has been some concern over the new style of PDF transcript. Let me explain:
1) The traditional characters will be back soon. We are switching things over to V3 where the 2 versions of the PDF transcripts will be in separate files.
2) Copying and pasting from the PDFs: It was never the plan to stop […]
Prompted by a discussion in the last post, I want to emphasize that newcomers are as welcome as anyone to comment here or anywhere else on ChinesePod. I still feel as if newbies don’t get as involved as they might.
With any online community, you have the issue of mixing it up. The newbies […]
To all our fellow CPodders,
We just recently discovered that one of our major servers are down and we are now working trying to get it back up and running again. We sincerely apologize for all the inconveniences that this has caused and hopefully, we can restore this specific server by the end of the day.
Kind […]
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