Archive for the 'ChinesePod' Category



Vote for ChinesePod

ChinesePod has been selected in the Podcast Awards for 2007.  The results are based on a public poll.
 We’d appreciate your votes over there. It would be nice to win the thing. Apparently you can vote once per day for the next 2 weeks or so.  
Ken Carroll

Gearing up for the Olympics!

Were you planning to attend the Olympics next year but were afraid that you’d get lost in the sea of people? Were you secretly panic-stricken by the thought that no one’s there to guide you as you trek your way through the Olympic village or, at the very least, tell you where the nearest vending […]

The ChinesePod Grammar Guide

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 […]

ChinesePod Website Tweaks

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 […]

Building a Better Widget

My name’s John Biesnecker, and I’m a new addition here at Praxis HQ. I’m helping Eileen with customer support, and dipping my toes in a variety of projects that touch on many areas of the ChineseSpanishPodSense operations.
Today, like a humble apprentice going to the elder monks for guidance, I have a question for the Big […]

If not Study, then what?

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 […]

Now you can review and practice speaking with ChinesePod

Two things to tell you about, and both concern additional audio features that we’re introducing.
First, we have the ChinesePod News and Features show. This show will bring you updates and information to help you keep up with any developments on ChinesePod, get more from it, and make your study as effective as possible. I’m […]

Qing Wen does reduplication of verbs

I case you haven’t seen it, the second installment of ‘Qing Wen’ was released yesterday. Just go to the Connect section and you’ll see it. (The first one is here.) In this show I rap with Amber and Aggie on the subject of verb reduplication, that tendency amongst Chinese verbs to reduplicate for effect, such […]

Qing Wen

Qing Wen
Today we’d like to bring something new - an audio show called ‘Qing Wen’. Qing Wen answers to your questions about speaking Chinese. The hosts, Amber and Connie, have been answering your questions on ChinesePod.com for the last year, but now we bring you a sample of their great work in audio […]

The ChinesePod 500 Lesson Torrent is Back

We have retested the torrent file, and it’s working great. To download a torrent file, you need a BitTorrent client (for example, BitComet or Azureus).
After your BitTorrent client is installed, your system should recognize the torrent filetype. Click on the link below and open the file with your BitTorrent client. That will get the download […]