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 […]
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XS2China: Communicating in a Mobile World
Published by November 13th, 2007 in ChinesePod, Innovation and Mobile learning. 1 CommentHuzzah 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 […]
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 […]
Browbeating, seduction, and chaos
Published by April 12th, 2007 in Innovation and Learning. 0 Comments
Bob Garfield has a piece in Advertising Age about the coming chaos in the advertising industry (and the denial amongst many of its executives). It’s a fascinating article, with observations like this:
The online space isn’t remotely developed enough — nor will it be anytime soon — to absorb the advertising budgets of the top […]
A termed coined by Jyri Engeström meaning the ability to have your finger on the pulse of your friends, family, and colleagues. Jyri is a founder of Jaiku a similar service to Twitter, Groovr and Dogdeball, which are ‘micro-blogging’ systems enabling the distribution of short-messages between peers. The result is essentially a stream of life-activity […]
Many forces are acting to change what we call learning. The biggest is undoubtedly the internet: e-learning, blended learning, social media, web 2.0 tools, etc. In the post-network society (and a billion people connected) technology is the driver, the enabler, of rapid, widescale, distributed change, including a change to how we learn (perhaps […]
The British government recently undertook measures to ensure that languages other than European ones can be taught in secondary schools there. Now, 11-14 year-olds can take classes Chinese, Arabic, Urdu, etc. Since that policy change, there has been much talk about this in the UK press about the future of language learning in the […]
via Niall Kennedy… Today Nokia announced a new pre-installed mobile feed reader on the Nokia Series 60 devices (e.g. N95 in the above photo). While ostensibly to support consumption of YouTube videos on mobile phones, it is also an increase in the ease of consuming a daily dose of ChinesePod.
While subscribing to the […]
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