ChinesePod on NBC

October 18th, 2007 · 5:58 pm @ admin  -  24 Comments

ChinesePod was featured as part of a “learning Chinese” segment that aired as part of this week’s “China Rising” series on NBC Nightly News.

24 Comments → “ChinesePod on NBC”


  1. Frank

    2 years ago

    Fantastic exposure! Such a fascinating topic, too. CAN Mandarin replace English as a global language?


  2. Lantian

    2 years ago

    Arrggggggg…media!…they had to end with a zinger, and they got ya Ken…talk about editing…no alphabet…makes it more beautiful! Who can spell madomosellle, and been, and tortuse anyway! 我爱汉字！ :)

    Pretty cool otherwise.


  3. Aaron Posehn

    2 years ago

    Fantastic piece by NBC I think, and it was really nice to see you guys get in there.
    I’m thinking that maybe I’m actually on the right path now in my life hahaha
    Looking forward to seeing you guys in the news more often!


  4. Dave Landis

    2 years ago

    Congratulations on this exposure.
    The classroom doesn’t fit my schedule, but my
    iPod and Chinesepod go with me almost everywhere.

    Your deserve such recoginition with your innovation.

    I hope the other networks pickup on your story too.


  5. marcos

    2 years ago

    have you guys noticed the reporter pronounced “Jenny Shu” when referring to Jenny?


  6. Mike in Singapore

    2 years ago

    I was sitting in the United Lounge at Narita Airport (Tokyo) with my Red Sox baseball cap on. (We are a Nation You Know!) when I meet Steve Young Director of the American Taiwan Institute. Basically he is the Ambassador for the US in Taiwan.

    I mentioned to him Chinesepod. He had not heard of it! I will follow up with him. Your marketing manager for Taiwan while now living in Taiwan.

    Mike not in Singapore, not in Jubie anymore but Mike in Tokyo


  7. Ken Carroll

    2 years ago

    Thx for the support,guys.

    Mike, great to hear from you. Thx for the advertisement. Btw, how is your Japanese coming along?

    Ken


  8. Mag

    2 years ago

    I think the program is great! But the only problem is the payment after the trail period for the ChinesePod subscription is through wiring the money to China. I have to cancel my subscritption becuase of that. Is there any other form of payment?

    Mag


  9. Matias

    2 years ago

    Congratulations !! I think ChinesePod is great and also great that you get such exposure after your effort.

    Matias from Argentina


  10. john furrier

    2 years ago

    Congrats ken

    How do it get that player to embed on my blog? I’d love to share it.


  11. admin

    2 years ago

    Hi Mag,

    If you email me at chinesepod(at)gmail(dot)com, we can look different options for you. :-)

    Hi John,

    Unfortunately, I think there is no way to get an embedded code for this video since we weren’t able to upload it to one of the video sharing sites (i.e. Youtube, etc.)

    Eileen


  12. John B

    2 years ago

    Here’s the embed code:


    <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" width="352" height="308">
    <param name="movie" value="http://blog.praxislanguage.com/jw_flv_player/flvplayer.swf?file=http://blog.praxislanguage.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/chinesepod_nbc.flv&amp;autoStart=false;" />
    <param name="quality" value="high" />
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://blog.praxislanguage.com/jw_flv_player/flvplayer.swf?file=http://blog.praxislanguage.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/chinesepod_nbc.flv&amp;autoStart=false;" quality="high" wmode="transparent" width="352" height="308" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object>


  13. Irma

    2 years ago

    Cogratulations all of you guys!!
    After living a year in Beijing, I finally find my
    place in Chinesepod.
    Speaking a language is easy,
    but teaching it…. Chinese pod knows how to.
    Irma (Mexico)


  14. S K Chen

    2 years ago

    Congratulations to Ken, Jenny & Dave on the NBC broadcast of Chinese Pod!

    S K Chen, Sarawak


  15. rosalía

    2 years ago

    I felt so surprised when I met chinese pod.


  16. Marian Adamus

    2 years ago

    Dear friends!
    My language is czech and slovac and the chinese im studying through english. The chinese pronuntiation and sense of the word is based on the tones and the music, (very agresive)that I have to hear during the conversation is disturbing me very much, because the music are the tones too.
    I would like hear the dialogs without any music beside.
    Thank you
    Marian Adamus


  17. Gabo

    2 years ago

    Ken & Jenny, and everyone at ChinesePod team

    Thank you for you help to learn Chinese in Mexico, where there are few teachers. I hope you start doing again the episodes with video, i’ve seen how it started en evolved, good job people!!! I hope to meet you someday,

    Saludos desde Mexico

    Gabo


  18. Norm Hamer

    2 years ago

    My wife and I just got back from three weeks in China and we have a lot to work on as far as our Chinese. My wife had the experience of leading a 5th grade English class near Pu Cheng. The kids were very enthusiastic and their English writing is better than kids here in the US. I am happy that Chinese is getting the exposure shown in the NBC program. I pushed for Chinese to be taught at our local college for three years. I sent in info on how important Chinese was and hounded the administration. Last spring we got the first semester of Chinese. This fall the same first semester class was repeated with the hope of getting enough students to have a second semester class. I like real classes as I can get feedback on how badly I pronounce Chinese. However, Chinese Pod is needed because a couple of classes a week is just not enough. The three weeks in China helped and I actually was understood by people, but in many cases I got back strange looks. Most of this was caused by not getting the tones right. I am wondering how can Chinese Pod help me in this regard? In any case it is fantastic that Chinese is getting the airtime and that Chinese Pod is helping to lead the way. I have also seen Chinese Pod referred to in a number of economics magazines, so Ken and Jenny you are become a world force. Maybe we will be able to even have a third and forth semester of Chinese at our college if you keep up the good work!


  19. Kiran Patel

    2 years ago

    Fantastic stuff guys, you are changing the way people learn languages for the better. Deserved recognition for the innovative idea that is ChinesePod.


  20. baseball cap

    2 years ago

    baseball cap…

    i love this post, this is exactly what iam looking. thanks for posting this, take care….


  21. Tom Webb

    1 year ago

    Jennie, Ken, John et al.
    You are all doing the world a great service. I began learning Chinese when I was a graduate student in Chinese History in 1975 because in the US Chinese was not taught in high school or undergraduate except in very few schools. Now it is everywhere and I couldn’t be happier. Chinesepod is an excellent way to learn spoken Mandarin and you all do such a great job. Great to see Ken finally. The NBC Nightly News piece was right on the mark but about 35 years too late.
    Keep up the good work.


  22. Kelvin

    1 year ago

    Great job guys! all of the ChinesePod team is doing a super job.

    …more importantly, Jenny is cute.


  23. N/A

    7 months ago

    为什么要用ChinesePod这个名字？难道是受iPod的影响？


  24. Jocob

    1 week ago

    跟EnglishPod一个系列？


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