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)!

     I have somewhat of a problem. When I first started on Chinesepod, I didn't know any written Chinese. This made the process of finding Chinese words I didn't know quite easy. Now, when going through the newbie lessons, I find that either I can read almost everything, or at least understand the words in a sentence.

     Because of this 'problem', it is taking me quite a while to find new vocabulary words to learn. I wish the speaking part was going as well. What I have done is moved to the elementary level for new words, where I can find abundant words that I don't know. This solution is working for now, but I suspect that I will begin to find the same problem with the elementary words as well. I guess what I would like to know is if there are any vocabulary lists someplace where I can just add words without having to comb through all these lessons.