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 […]
Over at the Language Realm, an interesting post on the relative ease (or otherwise) of learning Spanish.
Ken Carroll
I’ve reposted the link the my new Beyond E Learning podcast here.
Ken Carroll
Here Here is the first in a a series of podcasts that I want to call ‘Beyond E Learning’. In this recording I took an impromptu approach to share ideas that have been on my mind.
I believe we’re at the early stages of a learning revolution, the likes of which haven’t […]
Just a quick note that we moved the URL for this blog (and RSS feed if you subscribe) in preparation for the corporate site we are planning to launch in the next few months. On May 10th, we will merge this blog with the ChinesePod and SpanishSense weblogs in order to make it more convenient […]
In a previous thread, Fu Da Wei made an observation about how he could readily understand Spanish simply on reading it. There’s no question that, for an English speaker, learning Spanish is much easier than Chinese. (Fu Da Wei is a newcomer to Spanish, and he’s also studying Chinese with us.) With Chinese, […]
Scott Jamison has an interesting post on the difference between information and knowledge:
My conclusion: Knowledge = information + experience.
As an example: If you described a certain person to me, you could tell me their name, how tall they were, what they look like, etc. I have information. When I meet […]
Hi everyone, Dave here…. A lot of users have asked for better traditional support so I’m happy to announce the beta release of a browser plugin that:
works with Mozilla Firefox (versions 1.5 - 2.x)
replaces simplified characters with traditional ones on the dialogue/expansion/vocabulary pages
adds traditional character support to vocabulary lists/games/etc.
replaces the link to the simplified PDF […]
Since ChinesePod launched in 2005, we have received an enormous amount of product development ideas from the community. We have incorporated a large amount of this feedback into the current service. Today, we are introducing a new section called ‘Labs’ where we all can suggest, discuss and debate new features for ChinesePod.
You can find ChinesePod […]
Spring is here! The thermometer is rising, Shanghai is turning (relatively!) green, Ken keeps whistling around the office, Aric is sporting his new Spring/Summer ‘07 collection, and Jenny is more radiant than ever. We’ve even got over Colleen’s farewell (almost).
All of which has put us in such a generous mood we’ve decided to offer a […]
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