Just a quick note for anyone that will be in Amsterdam on September 28th. I will be representing ChinesePod at the China Language Bridge at PICNIC’07.
From the Event Brochure (PDF):
As China’s Economy is growing rapidly, cultural exchange between the Western World and China is flourishing. However, one of the largest barriers is language. New […]
Archive for August, 2007
ChinesePod: Redesigned Pages and a Better Dictionary
Published by August 23rd, 2007 in ChinesePod and News. 41 CommentsNew Home Page
We mentioned recently that SpanishSense had a new Home page, and that we’re tweaking it a bit before launching it for ChinesePod. Well, the time has come, and the new Home page has arrived.
Here’s what ChinesePod Home used to look like:
Here’s what it looks like now:
I don’t want to repeat myself too much, […]
With the launch of our new players to syndicated ChinesePod/SpanishSense lessons on your own blog, website, etc. (see SpanishSense now and ChinesePod on Thursday), it seemed appropriate to use Google Maps newly released embeddable map for ourselves. If you have ever wondered where the Praxis Language office is in Shanghai:
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Your Favorite ChinesePod Lessons
Published by August 20th, 2007 in ChinesePod and Learning. 14 CommentsAbout two weeks ago ChinesePod crossed the 600 lesson mark. (Sure, if we wanted to, we might also count the 52 Saturday Show episodes or the 27 Extra lessons, but we’re far too modest for that.) For some, such a prolific two years of lesson creation might be cause for tooting one’s own horn, but […]
5 months have passed since we first launched SpanishSense to the general public and we are now proud to announce that we have released our 100th lesson today entitled “Visita a la Fábrica (advanced)“!
That’s right, we now have 34 newbie, 34 elementary, 13 intermediate, 11 upper intermediate, and 8 advanced lessons in the lesson archive. […]
Hi guys,
There’s a new promotion over at SpanishSense that I’d like to share with you. From now until the end of August, when you subscribe (or upgrade) to a 1 year Premium susbcription, we will be sure to send you your very own SpanishSense mug free of charge!
Tell me, what’s more comforting than having […]
Over the past few months we at Praxis Language have been considering various ways to put the Home page to good use on both SpanishSense and ChinesePod. Today we have launched a new version of the SpanishSense Home page which displays more lessons and more links to those lessons.
This is the previous version of the […]
Robotic Teacher Dilemma: Attack or Instruct
Published by August 13th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 9 CommentsHi everyone,
As users of The Fix know, one of the things we’ve been focusing on over the last while is improving the tools we have to help people practice oral Chinese. We’re all studying Chinese, it helps to have more opportunities to speak it.
With this in mind, we’ve been in touch with a Chinese software […]
Huzzah for the ChinesePod Dictionary!
Published by August 2nd, 2007 in ChinesePod, Features, Innovation and News. 29 CommentsAs August creeps round and Shanghai settles into the sort of air-conditioned coastal complacence that drives Wuhan residents mad with envy, I’m pleased to be able to announce the debut of an old project we’ve been quietly refurbishing: our ChinesePod dictionary.
Those who have been with us since the transition to V3 might remember our old […]
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