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ChinesePod Product Updates

Here we are again, telling you what’s new on ChinesePod.

You can once again choose in your personalized feed whether to include simplified characters, traditional characters, or even both.
There is a new “Welcome Podcast” for the new users. You “old users” can still go listen, of course…

As for future features:

Expect new exercises later this week. (OK, […]

ChinesePod Product Updates

Here we are again, fulfilling all your ChinesePod news needs.

Free and Basic users will notice that there are now some sections of the site “grayed out.” This is part of an effort to make clearer which features are part of Basic/Premium services.
Lessons now have a pop-out player (look for the link right under the Flash […]

ChinesePod Product Updates

When something new happens on ChinesePod, you can read about it here! All the bug fixing of late has gotten real results, so we’d like to bring to your attention:

User vocabulary has long since been migrated, and the users that have reported any missing vocab have had any missing words brought back from limbo.
The ChinesePod […]

ChinesePod Product Updates

This is the first in a series of regular posts keeping you up to date about how ChinesePod is changing. We recently explained that the changes you have seen were a bit more than just “scheduled maintenance.” Here are some of the things you may be noticing:

You now see the 5 latest lessons on the […]

XS2China: Communicating in a Mobile World

ChinesePod users understand that learning Chinese is a fun and rewarding challenge. But what if you need to speak Chinese, like now? And you haven’t learned it at all yet? And the taxi driver is waiting for you to tell him where to go, in Chinese?
While in Amsterdam, co-founder and CEO Hank ran into some […]

Back from the National Day Holiday!

We hope you didn’t have any problems, but if you found us slightly less responsive over the past seven days, it’s because we’ve all been enjoying the October 1-7 Chinese National Day holiday (AKA “Golden Week”).
Well, all that “vacation” nonsense has finally come to an end, and a Monday of torrential downpour is ushering […]

The ChinesePod Integrated Chinese Blog

In case you haven’t caught word of it in News and Features, there’s a new blog in ChinesePod town (wow, where did that come from??), and it is the ChinesePod Integrated Chinese Blog!

In case you haven’t heard of it, Integrated Chinese (IC) is perhaps the most widely used textbook in the Chinese language programs of […]

ChinesePod: Redesigned Pages and a Better Dictionary

New 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, […]

Your Favorite ChinesePod Lessons

About 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 […]

A New Home

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 […]