Hi All:

Next Wednesday, 4^th November, we are holding our first ever "Newbie Meet-up" in Shanghai - and we'd like to invite you!

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The ChinesePod Newbie Meet-up in co-operation with ShanghaiExpat

When:   Wednesday, 4^th November 2009
            8:30pm-12 midnight
Where:  Malone’s American Cafe & Bar (http://www.malones.com.cn/)
            3rd Floor
            255 TongRen Rd (between Nanjing Rd and Beijing Rd)
Cost:     Free
            (complimentary finger food and discounted drinks)

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Absolutely everyone's welcome, especially those who are just starting with Chinese and are looking for a bit of guidance and encouragement. 

Ken, Jenny, and other members of the ChinesePod team will be there to chat about your learning experiences and obstacles, and to offer tips on how Shanghai's busy Mandarin "newbies" can best progress with their studies.

Better still, the evening promises to be a fun opportunity for Shanghai-based members of the ChinesePod community to meet-up in person in a relaxed setting. We're all pretty excited!

Lucky Draw
Everyone who joins next week will have the chance to enter a lucky draw to win a one-year Premium subscription to ChinesePod (worth US$239).
Plus, there'll be exclusive offers available on ChinesePod face-to-face classes in Shanghai.

So, make sure you've added the date to your calendar - and told ALL your Shanghai-based friends. We're all very much looking forward to meeting you!

RSVP: sarah.edson@praxislanguage.com

Dear Poddies,

We are very excited to annouce our first ever newbie meet-up next week. We want to invite you and your friends who are just starting to learn Chinese for a night of fun and rewarding experiences.

Ken, John and myself will be around to offer tips to newbies and more importantly hear what you have to say about learning Chinese.

We will also give away a one-year ChinesePod premium subscription to a lucky Poddie.

Limited spaces, please RSVP sarah.edson@praxislanguage.com

Mark the date in your planner. We look forward to seeing you next Wednesday!

Jenny

Anybody out there from the East Midlands, UK, who fancies getting together to speak Chinese? A bunch of us learners and a few Chinese speaker friends from the Leicester/De Montfort Uni Languages@Leicester Chinese classes have decided to organise an informal meet-up group to get together and practice spoken Chinese.

We thought about going with meetup.com, but it's a bit pricey. So I've set up a site called ZhongWenLeicester.org. It's fairly basic, and you need to sign up (it's free, and run on a volutnary basis - and always will be) - but it's a way of making connections locally so that we can get together.

PM me, or contact me thorugh ZhongWenLeicester if you want to join us. Our first meeting will, naturally enough, be in the Phoenix cafe/bar in a couple of weeks' time.

Will