ChinesePod has a new default page: the Me page. Some of you seem a bit confused as to what exactly that is, so I thought I'd clarify a bit.

Basically, "Me" refers to content that is perosnalized for the individual. "My Lessons" are the lessons that you bookmark, or that you have subscribed to automatically receive. You can delete any of these lessons or mark them as studied. You manage them.

Similarly, "Vocabulary" refers to the words that the individual user has saved for review. "Counseling" is a Guided/Executive service where a user can get personalzied feedback on lesson progress. "Posts" is a place to write new conversation posts, as well as an archive of all your own conversation posts (you can even edit them from here, whenever you want!). And, of course "Profile" is very personalized.

We've put together a screencast about all this (voiceover by yours truly!):

(You can see more cool screencasts like this one in our new help section!)

One thing that might confuse some people is what you see as a Free user. Full personalization is a Premium service; free users do not get to customize their feeds, bookmark lessons, manage their vocabulary lists and use flashcards, etc. So don't be alarmed if you're a free user. You can still listen podcasts as before, participate in discussions, etc. As a Free user, you'll probably want to make more use of the Lessons page, where you can see all the latest podcasts, across all levels and Extra shows.

I hope this clears some things up! Please let me know if you are still unclear about how the Me section works.

Hey folks

I'm having a problem having Chinese characters display properly- I'm using Safari 3.0.4 on Mac OSX Leopard.  

Characters usually come up alright but it is usually in the community or lesson discussion pages where they come up funny.

...you know how you get those weird symbols- a copyright symbol, then yen symbol, a plus-or-minus here, an upside-down question mark there..

Please help!

Hey, sorry to bother everyone. I've been listening to the newbie lessons on my ipod and thought they were heads and shoulders above any of the other Chinese podcasts, so I thought I'd go back and get all of the original newbie lessons.

I signed up and they are just as good as I'd hoped, but I'm having trouble getting them from the site into itunes for repeated listenings. The icons at the botttom of the media bar don't seem to work, and there are only the most recent lessons available on itunes. Does anyone know how I can do this, or are only the most recent lessons allowed to be downloaded?

Thanks in advance for any help that can be offered, and if any of the Chinesepod team read this, thanks for creating such a brilliant teaching device (You guys rule, Ken and Jenny)!

hello - i am fan of your podcasts for years now, but have never made any comments in this forum, so please forgive if this is the wrong way to ask a question. i got a new laptop, re-installed itunes and re-ordered chinesepod with this feed: http://chinesepod.com/lessons/feed

but in itunes now only newbie- and dear-amber-lessons appear....and i need intermediate and upper intermediate. what has changed or what did i wrong?