Squidoo: SKWID-OO, n. v., adj., addiction.
ChinesePod now has a nice little Squidoo lens on Learning Chinese. These are some of the things you can Squi-do on our lens:
- use, vote on, and contribute to a list of the best places on the web for Chinese learners
- view the latest ChinesePod lessons and some of our […]
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Learning Chinese on Squidoo
Published by March 8th, 2007 in Tech, Learning Chinese, About ChinesePod, News and ChinesePod Media Coverage. 2 CommentsIn case you are interested, the company that will oversee both ChinesePod and the Spanish iniative is called Praxis Language. The company was founded by myself, Hank Horkoff, and Steve Williams.
You can read about the philosophy behind Praxis over a the Praxis Language blog.
Ken Carroll
Steve Williams is pushing on with his drive to put together a team for a Spanish program. Here’s what he’s looking for:
Project Manager
- Native Spanish Speaker from Latin America
- Willing to be based in Shanghai
- Passionate about ChinesePod
- Entrepreneurial experience
- Marketing experience
- 5+ years Management experience
2x Host
- A Spanish ‘Jenny’ or ‘Johhny’
- Great English, and […]
I have some news I want to share with you. Pretty soon (within 3 months) we plan to launch the Spanish equivalent of ChinesePod. That’s right, we’re going to teach Spanish (through the medium of English, that is). We’ve had the idea on and off since last year, but in recent weeks we’ve committed to […]
This interview with linguist, Steven Pinker, has some very interesting stuff on language and metaphor, for those of you who may be linguistically inclined.
Ken Carroll
A lot of spam on the site today, for some reason. Meanwhile, the Google alert spamming idiocy continues in the blogosphere. I mentioned this approach a few days ago: the spammer sets a Google alert for the term learning Chinese. Whenever he sees a blog post on the topic he goes in and spams the […]
Holiday iPod Contest - Winner #1!
Published by December 11th, 2006 in About ChinesePod and News. 11 CommentsWe were all as giddy as 小孩子 (xiǎo hái zǐ） on Christmas when we made this first draw for our Christmas giveaway! We literally put your names into a (straw) hat and came up with this:
Congratulations to the lovely Ms. Ana Maria Pinheiro from Brazil, new owner of a red, 4G iPod Nano from ChinesePod.com! […]
Happy Holidays! This year, why not give something a little different. How about a gift that keeps giving long after the holidays? How about the number one spoken language in the world?
ChinesePod makes a great gift, and it’s simple and fast for you (which means more time for studying Chinese, right?).
We’ll activate your friend’s […]
You may think I have little to do all day and that
New features & site enhancements
Published by September 5th, 2006 in Product Features, About ChinesePod and News. 6 CommentsChinesePod continues to evolve, here is a list of the latest developments.
1. New lesson set added to the Learning Center - Our “Freshman” lesson set is a quick review of essential language for 2nd year college and university students returning from summer break. Add this lesson set to My Course and get yourself ready […]
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