Archive for June, 2006

Finding a Mandarin tutor

You may have noticed a new link on the task-bar today - the ‘Tutors’ link. This links you to the ChinesePod Tutors’ network - a place where you can connect with teachers of Mandarin.
Last week we ran our first training session for Mandarin teachers in how to use ChinesePod. We had 24 very […]

Beijing to Lhasa by train

Now this, I would absolutely love to do…
CPod classes on the train to Lhasa. Anyone up for it? Jenny? Anyone? What do you think?
Ken

More Q&A

I’m starting a new thread here for the Q&A. No reason except the other one was getting a bit long and I also moved all the relavent answers into the Help section the other day, so this way I can start fresh and eventually if there are more good questions I can simply move the […]

Hazza for Bazza!

The first official winner of the Saturday Show prize giveaway! Here we can see the proud owner of the all new ChinesePod T-Shirt sporting the stylish ring-top in his natural habitat, the UK. And Spinal Tap agrees, the coolness meters need to go up to 11.
We’d love to see more pictures of users prancing the […]

Event - Mandarin Clinic, July 15th, Shanghai

Attention ChinesePod users in Shanghai. ChinesePod is holding a Mandarin clinic on Saturday, July 15th at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Cafe in Shanghai’s XinTianDi entertainment disctrict.
About the Event:
ChinesePod teachers will be on site to answer your questions about learning Mandarin. Private tutors familiar with ChinesePod have also been invited. Meet the hosts […]

What is good teaching?

Put me on the list.
Yesterday I watched some teachers the Kai En English school, here in Shanghai. I saw some great things and got some new ideas. One of the teachers I spoke to referred me to a list of 11 qualities of a good teacher, by a guy called […]

CCTV 9’s “Travel in Chinese”

He’s everywhere.
If you live in China you may have seen the CCTV 9 show, Travel in Chinese. It is aimed at foreigners who want to learn Mandarin. I’ve seen bits of it over the last couple of months, so today when it came on, I took out my notebook and did a […]

Hong Kong Standard article about CPod

ChinesePod is back in the news - this time at the Hong Kong Standard: Melissa Chan writes an article “Why I Love ChinesePod“. For me, she picks up on the mood of CPod very well. I definitely want people to feel this enthusiasm and it is rewarding when you see people who do.
It […]

The ChinesePod Top 10

The lesson pods in the ChinesePod Archive can be filtered by Date, Popularity and Rating. The Popularity of a lesson pod is determined by the number of times that it has been added to My Course - the Premium ChinesePod feature that let’s you store and track lesson pods you are studying. So what […]

ChinesePod in Time Asia, City Weekend, and Readers Digest, say what?

Seems the word is getting out about just how easy it can be to learn Mandarin. ChinesePod was mentioned in both Time Asia and Readers Digest magazines this week, and was part of a feature article about the state of English language podcasting in China published by City Weekend magazine (our partners for Word […]