Archive for the 'News' Category

SpanishPod Product and Community Updates

Hope you’re enjoying your holidays!
SpanishPod Product Update
Just one thing to report this week: new subscribers to SpanishPod will be treated to a “Welcome Podcast,” featuring the SpanishPod team explaining their roles, as well as some crucial concepts that are important to the SpanishPod experience. New subscribers will automatically receive the “Welcome Podcast” in their […]

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 […]

SpanishPod Product and Community Updates

It’s been a big week here at Studio Fiesta; here’s the low down:
Community Updates
José Álvarez Díaz, a correspondent from the Spanish news agency EFE sat down with us for a few minutes earlier this week in Studio Fiesta to talk about our podcasts. That conversation has turned into international exposure for SpanishPod (as […]

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 […]

Scheduled Maintenance on ChinesePod, SpanishPod

It’s time for scheduled maintenance at ChinesePod. Tonight, November 19th, Shanghai time, ChinesePod.com will go down for several hours. When it returns, there may be a few small quirks which will be ironed out ASAP. Thank you for your patience and continued support!
Nov. 20 Update: We need to make some more changes today which necessitated […]

Back from the National Day Holiday!

We hope you didn’t have any problems, but if you found us slightly less responsive over the past seven days, it’s because we’ve all been enjoying the October 1-7 Chinese National Day holiday (AKA “Golden Week”).
Well, all that “vacation” nonsense has finally come to an end, and a Monday of torrential downpour is ushering […]

We are Hiring!

If you are a professional Marketing Manager, or know one, read on…
We are building up our team to support all of the exciting initiatives being cooked up behind the scenes, and have a vacancy for someone with 10+ years marketing management experience who shares our enthusiasm for technology and language learning. We are looking […]

ChinesePod: Redesigned Pages and a Better Dictionary

New Home Page
We mentioned recently that SpanishSense had a new Home page, and that we’re tweaking it a bit before launching it for ChinesePod. Well, the time has come, and the new Home page has arrived.
Here’s what ChinesePod Home used to look like:

Here’s what it looks like now:

I don’t want to repeat myself too much, […]

Huzzah for the ChinesePod Dictionary!

As 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 […]

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 […]