Although “fashionably late,” the Grammar Guide has finally joined the ChinesePod party. Today I would like to explain the purpose of the Grammar Guide, how to use it, what it is now, and what it will be in the future. Before I go on, though, I should say that the Grammar Guide is a ChinesePod […]
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The Tech Team at ChinesePod has been busy adding requested functionality to the site, and we are pleased to announce that the following changes are already in effect:
Most active users. It’s useful to know which users are most active on ChinesePod. They tend to know really well how to use the site, which lessons are […]
The switch from ChinesePod Version 2 to Version 3 (V3) involved many changes. One of the most fundamental changes was in navigation. The whole site is now encompassed by a four-element horizontal menu at the top of each page:
In designing the menu, we decided that using verbs was a good way to go because ChinesePod […]
Brand new to this version of the site we are introducing basic social networking features. In this section, we hope to facilitate two functions: (1) finding other users and (2) tracking conversations.
Finding Other Users
All registered users (Free Account, Basic, Premium) will automatically start a profile. First, we recognize all users will not be interested in […]
The vocabulary study section has much of the current functionality with a few enhancements.
Vocabulary Lists
First of all, vocabulary words can be added from the lesson review similar to as they can now. Once words have been saved, users can add tags to categorize them as they see fit. Instead of using ‘folders’ as […]
Lesson Discovering
While we will be publishing a new lesson every day of the week, most people will find studying lessons in this order awkward with the levels and subject matter constantly changing. With more than 500 lessons in the archive, there should be more than enough to keep everyone very busy!
We have tried to support […]
In my last post Usability Improvements, I talked about parts of the current version of the site we find awkward. As we looked at various ways we could make small iterations to try to solve this issues, we realized that many of our ideas would be very difficult to implement on the existing architecture. […]
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