Hi 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 […]
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Robotic Teacher Dilemma: Attack or Instruct
Published by August 13th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 9 CommentsHuzzah for the ChinesePod Dictionary!
Published by August 2nd, 2007 in ChinesePod, Features, Innovation and News. 30 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 […]
Exam Nightmares and the ChinesePod Test Playground
Published by July 23rd, 2007 in Uncategorized. 30 CommentsYou’re not sure how it happened, but you’re back in school. Instead of the honorary doctorate you vaguely remember being promised, you’re confronted with a 40 page exam on post-modern game theory. Being a ChinesePod subscriber, you’re feeling chuffed about the portion of the exam in Chinese, but even so are having trouble focusing […]
ChinesePod and SpanishSense hit Facebook
Published by July 20th, 2007 in General, Innovation, Learning 2.0, News and Uncategorized. 20 CommentsWith Facebook all over the news these days, and VC-backed development teams from Wuxi to Anping scrambling to roll-out Chinese editions of the site, I’m pleased to announce our own little contribution to the social networking frenzy: official ChinesePod and SpanishSense applications for Facebook.
We’ve been lucky enough to have a bunch of brave early-adopters and […]
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 […]
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