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 [...]
Why Buy the Cow?
We were informed this week that ChinesePod is featured in a recently published book titled “Why Buy the Cow?”. The interview was done over a year ago (says a lot about the publishing industry), but the words still ring true:
ChinesePod’s business model threatens the industry incumbents because it re-arranges the supply chain. The company is [...]
ChinesePod Product Updates
This is the first in a series of regular posts keeping you up to date about how ChinesePod is changing. We recently explained that the changes you have seen were a bit more than just “scheduled maintenance.” Here are some of the things you may be noticing:
You now see the 5 latest lessons on the [...]
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 [...]
XS2China: Communicating in a Mobile World
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 [...]
The ChinesePod Practice Plan: a personal look
Hi fellow CPodders,
This week Yves Goulnik, one of the core members of our community, dropps by the CPod factory and graciously accepts our invitation to join us in the studio to talk about his ChinesePod Practice Plan experiences.
Take a listen to the whole interview here!
Also, don’t forget to check out our Practice Plan page to [...]
Practice Plan Promotion
Chinese is increasingly the language of global business. The world’s most spoken language is also the language of the world’s hottest economy, and knowledge of Mandarin is quickly becoming an essential skill in the repertoire of modern businesspeople.
The ChinesePod Practice Plan perfectly complements the portable ChinesePod lessons, providing reinforcement of material already learned and expanding [...]
Faster, simpler dictionary search
One of the things that first drew me to FireFox a few years ago was its integrated search box. Being able to search Google or Yahoo without actually going to the page was a huge improvement, and has probably saved me hundreds of hours over the years. Now we’ve brought a little of that functionality [...]
The ChinesePod Integrated Chinese Blog
In case you haven’t caught word of it in News and Features, there’s a new blog in ChinesePod town (wow, where did that come from??), and it is the ChinesePod Integrated Chinese Blog!
In case you haven’t heard of it, Integrated Chinese (IC) is perhaps the most widely used textbook in the Chinese language programs of [...]
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, [...]