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GermanPod Academic Developer

The Academic Developer is a native German speaker with strong German writing skills and an understanding of grammar. English skills are a plus. The Academic Developer is responsible for all lesson publication, including editing materials, annotating materials with grammatical information, and operating technical publication systems.

Requirements:

  • Relevant Bachelors degree (e.g., Education, Linguistics, Language Teaching, German or English Literature, etc.).
  • Excellent spoken English (no lower than IELTS 7.0 or equivalent).
  • Responsible, dedicated, passionate, and creative personality.
  • High attention to detail.
  • Good communication skills, willingness to work collaboratively.
  • Familiarity with blog software preferred.
  • Cultural sensitivity.

This is a full-time position.

If you would like to apply for this position, please send your resume to job@praxislanguage.com.

 

JapanesePod Academic Developer

The Academic Developer is a native Japanese speaker with strong Japanese writing skills and an understanding of grammar. English skills are a plus. The Academic Developer is responsible for all lesson publication, including editing materials, annotating materials with grammatical information, and operating technical publication systems.

Requirements:

  • Relevant Bachelors degree (e.g., Education, Linguistics, Language Teaching, Japanese or English Literature, etc.).
  • Excellent spoken English (no lower than IELTS 7.0 or equivalent).
  • Responsible, dedicated, passionate, and creative personality.
  • High attention to detail.
  • Good communication skills, willingness to work collaboratively.
  • Familiarity with blog software preferred.
  • Cultural sensitivity.

This is a full-time position.

If you would like to apply for this position, please send your resume to job@praxislanguage.com.

 

ArabicPod Academic Developer

The Academic Developer is a native Arabic speaker with strong Arabic writing skills and an understanding of grammar. English skills are a plus. The Academic Developer is responsible for all lesson publication, including editing materials, annotating materials with grammatical information, and operating technical publication systems.

Requirements:

  • Relevant Bachelors degree (e.g., Education, Linguistics, Language Teaching, Arabic or English Literature, etc.).
  • Excellent spoken English (no lower than IELTS 7.0 or equivalent).
  • Responsible, dedicated, passionate, and creative personality.
  • High attention to detail.
  • Good communication skills, willingness to work collaboratively.
  • Familiarity with blog software preferred.
  • Cultural sensitivity.

This is a full-time position.

If you would like to apply for this position, please send your resume to job@praxislanguage.com.

 

RussianPod Academic Developer

The Academic Developer is a native Russian speaker with strong Russian writing skills and an understanding of grammar. English skills are a plus. The Academic Developer is responsible for all lesson publication, including editing materials, annotating materials with grammatical information, and operating technical publication systems.

Requirements:

  • Relevant Bachelors degree (e.g., Education, Linguistics, Language Teaching, Russian or English Literature, etc.).
  • Excellent spoken English (no lower than IELTS 7.0 or equivalent).
  • Responsible, dedicated, passionate, and creative personality.
  • High attention to detail.
  • Good communication skills, willingness to work collaboratively.
  • Familiarity with blog software preferred.
  • Cultural sensitivity.

This is a full-time position.

If you would like to apply for this position, please send your resume to job@praxislanguage.com.

 

JapanesePod Lead Host

As the main Japanese voice for JapanesePod, you will be working with the Lead Teacher to create lively, entertaining lessons that deliver Japanese to a virtually unlimited audience via podcast. The ideal candidate will be young, vibrant, and have a passion for languages and learning. The Lead Host will assist the Lead Teacher in creating lessons and other material, take charge of PR initiatives, and develop and lead the user community.

Go to http://spanishpod.com/lessons/bottle-of-water and listen — the Lead Host is the female voice, Liliana, and the JapanesePod Lead Host will fill the same speaking role for Language.

Requirements:

  • Native Japanese speaker, fluent English.
  • Passion for language, learning, and communication.
  • Experience teaching Japanese to English speakers preferred.
  • Media or broadcast experience preferred.

This is a full-time position.

If you would like to apply for this position, please send your resume to job@praxislanguage.com.

 

GermanPod Lead Host

As the main German voice for GermanPod, you will be working with the Lead Teacher to create lively, entertaining lessons that deliver German to a virtually unlimited audience via podcast. The ideal candidate will be young, vibrant, and have a passion for languages and learning. The Lead Host will assist the Lead Teacher in creating lessons and other material, take charge of PR initiatives, and develop and lead the user community.

Go to http://spanishpod.com/lessons/bottle-of-water and listen — the Lead Host is the female voice, Liliana, and the GermanPod Lead Host will fill the same speaking role for Language.

Requirements:

  • Native German speaker, fluent English.
  • Passion for language, learning, and communication.
  • Experience teaching German to English speakers preferred.
  • Media or broadcast experience preferred.

This is a full-time position.

If you would like to apply for this position, please send your resume to job@praxislanguage.com.

 

ArabicPod Lead Host

As the main Arabic voice for ArabicPod, you will be working with the Lead Teacher to create lively, entertaining lessons that deliver Arabic to a virtually unlimited audience via podcast. The ideal candidate will be young, vibrant, and have a passion for languages and learning. The Lead Host will assist the Lead Teacher in creating lessons and other material, take charge of PR initiatives, and develop and lead the user community.

Go to http://spanishpod.com/lessons/bottle-of-water and listen — the Lead Host is the female voice, Liliana, and the ArabicPod Lead Host will fill the same speaking role for Language.

Requirements:

  • Native Arabic speaker, fluent English.
  • Passion for language, learning, and communication.
  • Experience teaching Arabic to English speakers preferred.
  • Media or broadcast experience preferred.

This is a full-time position.

If you would like to apply for this position, please send your resume to job@praxislanguage.com.

 

RussianPod Lead Host

As the main Russian voice for RussianPod, you will be working with the Lead Teacher to create lively, entertaining lessons that deliver Russian to a virtually unlimited audience via podcast. The ideal candidate will be young, vibrant, and have a passion for languages and learning. The Lead Host will assist the Lead Teacher in creating lessons and other material, take charge of PR initiatives, and develop and lead the user community.

Go to http://spanishpod.com/lessons/bottle-of-water and listen — the Lead Host is the female voice, Liliana, and the RussianPod Lead Host will fill the same speaking role for Language.

Requirements:

  • Native Russian speaker, fluent English.
  • Passion for language, learning, and communication.
  • Experience teaching Russian to English speakers preferred.
  • Media or broadcast experience preferred.

This is a full-time position.

If you would like to apply for this position, please send your resume to job@praxislanguage.com.

 

JapanesePod Lead Teacher

As the leader of JapanesePod, you will be creating fun, exciting Japanese lessons together with a native Japanese-speaking Lead Host and delivering them to a virtually unlimited audience via podcast. This is an opportunity to teach in a communicative — rather than grammar-driven — way, to right the wrongs of the textbook-dominated classroom, and to re-kindle the enthusiasm that has been beaten out of students by years of outdated pedagogy. As a native English speaker, the insights you’ve gained in while mastering Japanese are invaluable.

Go to http://spanishpod.com/lessons/bottle-of-water and listen — the Lead Teacher is the male voice, JP, and the JapanesePod Lead Teacher will fill the same speaking role for Japanese.

Requirements:

  • Native English speaker, with fluency of Japanese acquired as an adult.
  • Masters Degree in linguistics, education, or Japanese.
  • Teaching experience and strong academic foundations.
  • Experience teaching with new technologies.
  • Familiarity with computers and the Internet.
  • Intense dissatisfaction with the current state of language teaching.
  • An infectious passion for teaching and learning.

This is a full-time position.

If you would like to apply for this position, please send your resume to job@praxislanguage.com.

 

GermanPod Lead Teacher

As the leader of GermanPod, you will be creating fun, exciting German lessons together with a native German-speaking Lead Host and delivering them to a virtually unlimited audience via podcast. This is an opportunity to teach in a communicative — rather than grammar-driven — way, to right the wrongs of the textbook-dominated classroom, and to re-kindle the enthusiasm that has been beaten out of students by years of outdated pedagogy. As a native English speaker, the insights you’ve gained in while mastering German are invaluable.

Go to http://spanishpod.com/lessons/bottle-of-water and listen — the Lead Teacher is the male voice, JP, and the GermanPod Lead Teacher will fill the same speaking role for German.

Requirements:

  • Native English speaker, with fluency of German acquired as an adult.
  • Masters Degree in linguistics, education, or German.
  • Teaching experience and strong academic foundations.
  • Experience teaching with new technologies.
  • Familiarity with computers and the Internet.
  • Intense dissatisfaction with the current state of language teaching.
  • An infectious passion for teaching and learning.

This is a full-time position.

If you would like to apply for this position, please send your resume to job@praxislanguage.com.

 

ArabicPod Lead Teacher

As the leader of ArabicPod, you will be creating fun, exciting Arabic lessons together with a native Arabic-speaking Lead Host and delivering them to a virtually unlimited audience via podcast. This is an opportunity to teach in a communicative — rather than grammar-driven — way, to right the wrongs of the textbook-dominated classroom, and to re-kindle the enthusiasm that has been beaten out of students by years of outdated pedagogy. As a native English speaker, the insights you’ve gained in while mastering Arabic are invaluable.

Go to http://spanishpod.com/lessons/bottle-of-water and listen — the Lead Teacher is the male voice, JP, and the ArabicPod Lead Teacher will fill the same speaking role for Arabic.

Requirements:

  • Native English speaker, with fluency of Arabic acquired as an adult.
  • Masters Degree in linguistics, education, or Arabic.
  • Teaching experience and strong academic foundations.
  • Experience teaching with new technologies.
  • Familiarity with computers and the Internet.
  • Intense dissatisfaction with the current state of language teaching.
  • An infectious passion for teaching and learning.

This is a full-time position.

If you would like to apply for this position, please send your resume to job@praxislanguage.com.

 

RussianPod Lead Teacher

As the leader of RussianPod, you will be creating fun, exciting Russian lessons together with a native Russian-speaking Lead Host and delivering them to a virtually unlimited audience via podcast. This is an opportunity to teach in a communicative — rather than grammar-driven — way, to right the wrongs of the textbook-dominated classroom, and to re-kindle the enthusiasm that has been beaten out of students by years of outdated pedagogy. As a native English speaker, the insights you’ve gained in while mastering Russian are invaluable.

Go to http://spanishpod.com/lessons/bottle-of-water and listen — the Lead Teacher is the male voice, JP, and the RussianPod Lead Teacher will fill the same speaking role for Russian.

Requirements:

  • Native English speaker, with fluency of Russian acquired as an adult.
  • Masters Degree in linguistics, education, or Russian.
  • Teaching experience and strong academic foundations.
  • Experience teaching with new technologies.
  • Familiarity with computers and the Internet.
  • Intense dissatisfaction with the current state of language teaching.
  • An infectious passion for teaching and learning.

This is a full-time position.

If you would like to apply for this position, please send your resume to job@praxislanguage.com.

 

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  • to Remix — to adapt the work

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Jobs

 

Management

Praxis Language is made up of people who are passionate about language and technology. Key management personnel include:

Ken Carroll

Senior Advisor

Ken Carroll has worked as a language teacher/teacher trainer for 20 years. His areas of expertise are in language acquisition, and communicative teaching methodologies. Ken is also an entrepreneur. In 1996 he co-founded the Kai En English Language Training Center in Shanghai. He is also a co-founder of ChinesePod, 2005, and Praxis Language, 2007.

Ken blogs at Here Comes Everybody.

Hank Horkoff

Chief Executive Officer

Hank Horkoff has a background in technology and entrepreneurship and is primarily responsible for corporate strategy and product development. He has an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Hank blogs at The Network Sense.

Steve Williams

Chief Operating Officer

Steve Williams has been involved in the education industry for the past 10 years, as a manager and entrepreneur. The majority of this experience has been in the language training field, both in traditional schools (the Kai En chain), and in new models that use technology to create value for learners (Praxis Language Ltd, and On Demand Training Ltd.) He also has experience running MBAs and overseas study consultancies. His expertise is in management, finance and operations.

Eric Lee

Chief Technology Officer

Eric Lee has been involved in the multimedia industry for the past 15 years, as both a manager and an entrepreneur. The majority of this experience has been in the web development field, both in the interactive media industry in China and in commercial web development in Australia (icemedia). He brings to Praxis considerable experience with web development and technologies. His expertise is in management, operations and Information Technology.

John Pasden

Senior Product Manager

John Pasden graduated with highest honors from University of Florida with a degree in Japanese Language and Literature. He immediately moved to China, where he applied his interest in linguistics to teaching university spoken English classes. As his creative teaching methods won awards in Hangzhou, John also gained fluency in Mandarin Chinese. In 2008, he completed his Masters in Applied Linguistics at Shanghai’s East China Normal University in an all-Chinese program meant for natives.

John blogs at Sinosplice.

Zhang Feng

Special Projects Manager

ZhangFeng graduated from East Normal University majoring in Computer Technology. He has extensive project management experience and is the leading force behind the Online Confucius Institute.

 

Our System

The Praxis Language Personalized Learning System (PLS) is designed for the language learner of the 21st century. It represents the evolution of the school and the migration of traditional learning out of the institutions, onto the network.

The application of a network approach to pedagogy, teaching, and lesson design, together with the new tools and technologies of the post web 2.0 era, distinguish Praxis as best practice leaders in the industry. The PLS points to the future of language learning.

What is the PLS?

The PLS combines three elements:

  • Learning Media. Comprehensive, searchable, relevant, timely, learning objects.
  • Open Community. A social/collaborative learning environment.
  • Personalization. Customizable tools and content options for the individual.

The purpose of the PLS is to enable language learning on the individual’s terms. It strives to fit the learning around the needs of the learner (rather than the needs of schools, publishers, or other external agencies, as it was in the past). This allows the learner to learn what he wants, when he wants, how he wants, and this mirrors a greater trend towards personalization on the web. Through the PLS, the user is constantly connected to the content, community, and the tools he needs to learn the target language effectively. The result is a ubiquitous, immersive, learning environment over which he has a great deal of control – ‘Learning on your Terms’.

Lets look at the Learning Media in more detail.

1. Learning Media

Learners need a balance between the freedom to explore and find their own learning pathways, together with a degree of guidance. The Learning Media embody both – a choice of free-ranging, pedagogically sound content, with guidance on usage, learning strategies, and other things.

  • Modular Lessons
    Lessons take the form of hundreds of discrete, digital learning objects. Every lesson passes the quality test and functions as a stand-alone unit. They are archived, searchable, and graded for difficulty level. However, learners are not obliged to consume them on a pre-defined basis, but freely select and combine lessons according to their needs.
  • Daily Learning Events
    New lessons appear on a daily publication/distribution cycle to create currency, and a rhythm of on-going participation. The balance between the familiar (structures, formats, hosts, etc) and the unexpected (topics, themes, moods) keeps interest high. Through user response, the daily learning events are negotiated conversations rather than lectures.
  • Engaging Content
    An engaging, conversational style of lessons bonds learners with teachers. The high-frequency language takes the listener into real-life situations. Hosts offer expert insight into the language and the learning in short, manageable lessons that include, stories, anecdote, humor, mnemonic devices, and more.
  • A Communicative Approach to Instruction
    The pedagogical approach is eclectic but rooted in the needs of the Western language learner. Content is designed for meaning, authenticity and communication. It integrates the lexical approach, cognitive psychology, and connectivist insights, with a variety of skills (grammatical competence, socio-linguistic competence, strategic competence, etc).
  • Multi-dimensional Design
    Learning objects embrace a diverse selection of activities to accommodate different learning styles and consumption options. They bring together text, with audio and visual elements.

2. Open Community

The PLS is designed around social object-language learning. The community features support the sharing of knowledge and good learning practices in the mode of a community of practice. As with the social networks, social membership in a learning community creates learning energy and motivation. This builds upon the learning events and on-going activities to create a virtuous circle of social/collaborative learning, motivation, and increased social capital.

Here’s more on how the Open Community works:

Two-way Learner Interaction

Community participation is encouraged at every point: learner-to-learner, learner-to-practitioner, learner-to-content, etc. Learning happens through connections with peers, practitioners and other community members (Knowledge does not reside exclusively with teachers).

The two-way flow informs the Praxis PLS in several ways:

  • Learner participation in the lessons
    On lesson release, learners/practitioners un-pack it, add to it, critique them, etc, to ‘complete’ them.
  • Individual posts/blog
    Each learner can post, to comment, ask questions, etc.
  • User suggestions
    Most new lessons come from user suggestions, to ensure that content is relevant to the community.
  • Conversations
    Users can create discussions (around lessons, words, grammar points, or other topics) as they please.
  • Reviews and rankings
    Users review learning materials, language schools, etc.

Learning culture

All communities require shared values and behaviors. Relationships, trust and mutual respect form the basis of a healthy culture.

  • Teachers are practitioners and connectors
    In a network context, the old teacher/student relationships are neither relevant, nor possible. The role of teachers is to demonstrate, and model the target language, but also to connect learners, content, resources, and challenging new concepts. This approach works particularly well for the dissemination of ‘soft knowledge’ – informing learners of things they need to do, as well as things they need to know. Learning is a conversation.
  • Communities of practice
    The learning culture borrows much from Wenger’s communities of practice. This includes the need to build social capital, and a shared repertoire of tools, concepts and practices that constitute a common vocabulary and make participation more effective. Users need to understand the culture of learning.
  • Study Groups
    Study Groups allows a myriad of smaller communities to form within the PLS, focused on specific locations, needs, purposes, and study methods. Students in these groups can learn together, and group organizers moderate discussion and re-publish archived learning media into the group, thus drawing fresh attention and decentralizing the creation of learning events. For the broader community, Study Groups offer another level of choice and personalization, and for the group organizer (hobbyists, companies, schools, universities) it turns the PLS into a learning platform that allows them to offer greater benefits to their students

3. Personalization

The PLS connects the learner to a set of dynamic content and resources for an inquiry-based (exploratory) learning format. Greater choice for the user makers for a much more personal commitment to the learning. The PLS allows individuals to configure the learning according to their needs

  • Personal Guidance
    Every learner has the option of receiving personal guidance from an expert teacher, ranging from the opportunity to ask for personal feedback to questions as they arise, to the provision of a detailed study roadmap followed up by daily contact and practice. All guidance is provided through the network, giving students flexibility of time and place.
  • Individual Assessment
    The PLS offers the learner many options to tailor their learning to meet their goals. Software tests, feedback from review tools, counselor needs analyses and custom tests all assist the learner to focus on the learning media that will most help them.
  • Custom Courses
    The modular lesson format (learning objects) allows for maximum choice, re-mixable lessons, extensive library, and multi-dimensional activities that appeal to different learning styles.
  • Software Aids
    A centralized web platform acts as a lifelong record of study activity (e.g. lessons learned, vocabulary saved, tests completed), as well as a springboard into review and reinforcement activities.
  • Mobility
    The PLS is channel agnostic and strives to deliver learning materials and social interaction to the student’s preferred media. This could be through a web browser, to an iPod, on a mobile phone, in a customized workbook or CD, on TV or through a learning service/API.
 

Our Story

Traditional education is a product of the 19th century: mass-produced programs, delivered in a teacher-centric, ‘one-to-many’ format. In that model, learning was organized around the needs of teachers and institutions, while content and objectives were imposed upon the learner, rather than being chosen by him. He was forced to adapt to the needs of the system.

These days, we’re seeing a reversal of these longstanding educational practices and the emergence of an alternative educational model. The change is driven by technology and it’s effecting a fundamental shift away from the teacher-centric learning model, towards a learner-centric one.

With the internet as platform, teaching and instruction can now be configured around the learning process and the needs of the learner, rather than those of the teacher or institution. The new instructional design is multi-dimensional, and dynamic. It offers more access, greater choice, and the flexibility for the individual to learn on his own terms.

Learner-centric technologies based on a strong pedagogical foundation, will define how people learn in the Information Age. As of yet, however, we are still in the early stages of the Learning Revolution.

We believe that the convergence of learning and technology will offer great opportunity to the visionary companies who can deliver value through the new tech and new pedagogies that life-long learning requires. It was in this context that Praxis Language was founded in 2006.

With the phenomenal popularity of its ChinesePod and its other LanguagePod brands, Praxis Language has demonstrated its global leadership in the realms of language learning in the Web 2.0 era.

 

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ItalianPod

ItalianPod launched in June 2008, and is Praxis Language’s newest product.

The ItalianPod Team

Catherine Mathes

Lead Teacher

Catherine Mathes graduated with highest honors from Brandeis University with degrees in European Cultural Studies and Philosophy. She also attended the Conservatory Arrigo Boito in Parma, Italy. Before joining the Praxis Language team she taught English and art at the middle and high school levels.

Marco De Mutiis

Lead Host

Marco De Mutiis comes from Trento, Italy. He attended the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, graduating with a degree in Asian Studies. Marco has experience working in design, freelance photography, and music production. Before joining the Praxis Language team he taught Italian with the Marco Polo program.

 

FrenchPod

FrenchPod is Praxis Language’s third product, having launched in May 2008.

The FrenchPod Team

Erica Tremonti

Lead Teacher

Erica Tremonti holds a degree in Linguistics and has 6 years of teaching experience. She has taught French to English speakers, as well as English to French speakers. She has also has experience teaching music. She lived in Paris for several years and then returned to the U.S. to start a company advancing French language materials in North America before joining Praxis Language.

Amaury Libeer

Lead Host

Amaury Libeer is half French and half Belgian, and lived in both countries before traveling throughout the Anglo-Saxon world. He has a BA in International Trade and worked for 6 years in Scotland. While abroad, he also taught French as a foreign language.

Christela Tchokodeu

Academic Developer

Christela Tchokodeu graduated with a degree in Modern Languages from the University of Nanterre (Paris X), majoring in English-French translation and Chinese. She lived and studied in the UK and has strong interests in foreign language and cultures.

Christophe Legras

Customer Support Representative

Christophe Legras holds a master degree from the INP Grenoble and Trinity College University of Dublin where he studied computer science and telecommunications. He has five years of experience as a software engineer and customer support engineer in global corporations.

 

SpanishPod

SpanishPod launched in November 2007, and was Praxis Language’s second product. It now features more than 200 free lesson and extra downloads, and has a vibrant community of thousands. SpanishPod publishes a new lesson five days per week.

The SpanishPod Team

John Patrick Villanueva

Lead Teacher

John Patrick “JP” Villanueva is a former Spanish teacher from Seattle, Washington. He holds an MA in Romance Linguistics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, specializing in Foreign Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, and Minimalist Syntax.

JP blogs at Fluency.

Liliana Mata

Lead Host

Liliana Mata was born in Mexico City but grew up in Chihuahua, the biggest state in Mexico. She attended the Universidad de las Americas Puebla UDLAP. She went on to study Political Science in Pierre Mendes France in Grenoble, France. She worked for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, DC, and as an international marketing consultant in China.

Estibalitz Gete Moreno

Academic Director

Estibalitz Gete Moreno is from San Sebastián, Spain, and holds a BA in Foreign Language Education from the University of the Basque Country. She spent a year at Ohio’s Mount Union Colleg working as the Spanish Teaching Assistant. She is responsible for lesson creation and editing.

Jorge Leonardo Guerrero Vargas

Customer Service Representative

Jorge Leonardo Guerrero Vargas is from Hermosillo, Mexico. He lived and studied in Vancouver and Quebec City, where he became fluent in English and French, and earned a B.A. in Business at Université Laval in Quebec with minors in Marketing and International Business.

 

ChinesePod

ChinesePod launched in October 2005, and was Praxis Language’s first product. It now features more than 1000 free lesson and extra downloads, and has hundreds of thousands of users, and publishes a new lesson seven days per week.

The ChinesePod Team

Ken Carroll

Lead Teacher

Ken Carroll has worked as a language teacher/teacher trainer for 20 years. His areas of expertise are in language acquisition, and communicative teaching methodologies. Ken is also an entrepreneur. In 1996 he co-founded the Kai En English Language Training Center in Shanghai. He is also a co-founder of ChinesePod, 2005, and Praxis Language, 2007.

Ken hosts Newbie and Elementary lessons, and blogs at Here Comes Everybody.

Jenny Zhu

Lead Host

Jenny Zhu has been with ChinesePod from the beginning in 2005. After gaining her masters’ degree in International Relations and Public Policy in Australia, she returned to Shanghai and started an unconventional but fully rewarding career of teaching the world Chinese through podcasts. She also has experience in radio and media content development.

Jenny blogs at JennyZhu.com.

John Pasden

Lead Teacher

John Pasden graduated with highest honors from University of Florida with a degree in Japanese Language and Literature. He immediately moved to China, where he applied his interest in linguistics to teaching university spoken English classes. As his creative teaching methods won awards in Hangzhou, John also gained fluency in Mandarin Chinese. In 2008, he completed his Masters in Applied Linguistics at Shanghai’s East China Normal University in an all-Chinese program meant for natives.

John hosts Intermediate and Upper Intermediate lessons, and blogs at Sinosplice

Connie Cheng

Host & Academic Developer

Connie Cheng graduated from Zhejiang Normal University with a degree in International Chinese Studies. Before ChinesePod, she was a Mandarin teacher at a language school. She currently hosts the Advanced shows with Jenny Zhu, the QingWen show with Amber.

Lu Jiaojie

Academic Developer

Lu Jiaojie graduated from Shanghai’s East China Normal University in 2007 with a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics. She has extensive Chinese teaching experience, and works at Praxis Language as an academic developer where she writes lesson dialogs, edits lessons, and sometimes acts as a voice actor or host.

Venus Jin

Production Assistant

Venus Jin graduated from the Shangrao Teacher Training College in Jiangxi Province. She is responsible for supplemental lesson recordings, lesson content upload, preliminary quality checks, and data maintenance.

Vera Zhang

Head Counselor

Vera Zhang graduated from East China Normal University with a degree in International Chinese Studies. Before Chinesepod, Vera was a mandarin teacher for several years, including one year in the Philippines. She is now the head Exectuive & Guided counselor, and teaches clients from all over the world.

 

Contact

For more information, please contact us at:
praxislanguage@gmail.com

Shanghai Development Center
Praxis Language Ltd
Suite A301, 2452 WanHangDu Rd.
Shanghai, China, 200051
tel: + 86-21-5178-6700
fax: + 86-21-5178-6723

US Contact Info
Praxis Language LLC
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Wilmington, DE, USA, 19809

 

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