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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 and SpanishSense hit Facebook

With 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 […]

ChinesePod on NBC Nightly News

 
We had visitors on Friday. The NBC Nightly News crew came over to the factory and spent most of the day with us.  It looks like they may run two stories. One is how ChinesePod reflects the growing interest in Mandarin around the world. The second is  for CNBC and looks at the ChinesePod business-model. Both […]

The Saturday Show is bouncing back

 
In the midst of all the changes of recent months you may have gotten the impression that the Saturday Show had somehow disappeared. It hasn’t. You can find it here.  
The Saturday Show will continue. Aric, as ever, has lot of ideas for it going forward.  If you haven’t been there for a while, drop in and see what […]

Maintainence

Just a quick note that we moved the URL for this blog (and RSS feed if you subscribe) in preparation for the corporate site we are planning to launch in the next few months. On May 10th, we will merge this blog with the ChinesePod and SpanishSense weblogs in order to make it more convenient […]

Access Improvements

In the coming months we will launch ChinesePod Version 3. It will bring about some fairly big changes. These changes are based on the tremendous flow of feedback that we’ve had from you, the users. In preparation for that new iteration, we’ll write a series of posts outlining the changes, starting with this one.
The biggest […]