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ChinesePod integrates audio and video podcast lessons with a range of learning tools and resources and a dynamic online community of learners. A choice of 6 subscription levels allows you to select a subscription that best suits your budget and schedule.
Basic Subscription
Basic Subscription provides learners with access to all ChinesePod audio and video podcast lessons, and includes:
- Full access to high-quality audio and video file podcasts
- Unlimited access to our library of 1000 + podcast lessons
- PDF transcripts to accompany each podcast, including the lesson dialogue, key vocabulary and translations (available to be read on an iPod)
- Personal podcast RSS feed - subscribe to receive new lessons automatically
- Bookmark tool - save lessons of interest, to study in your own time
- Access to join the ChinesePod community and participate in online discussions
Starting from just $5 a month.
Premium Subscription
Premium Subscription is ideal for full-time study. In addition to Basic-level access, this subscripton includes full access to each podcast's accompanying learning materials & study tools. Premium subscribers can review, reinforce and build on the lesson's new vocabulary, grammar and sentence patterns, thus optimizing their learning. The Premium Subscription includes:
- Full Basic subscription access (See above)
- Online lesson review exercises and expansion
- High-quality audio review file, containing new vocabulary and examples of usage
- Vocabulary study tools, including virtual flashcards
- iPhone access
Subscription Special! Users who purchase 1 or 2 year subscriptions will receive a Digital Lesson Pack with 888 ChinesePod lessons, instantly downloadable.
Starting from $17 a month.
Guided Subscription
The Guided Subscription offers personalized and structured study support. In addition to enjoying full Premium-level access, learners are designated a personal teacher who provides guidance and support. The Guided subscription includes:
- Full Premium subscription access (as above)
- A 30-minute phone call to assess the student's needs and language ability
- Monthly study plans, set according to the needs of the learner
- The personal ‘counseling tab’, where study questions may be asked at any time, and are answered by your personal ChinesePod teacher
- Personalized 10-minute weekly calls to practice speaking and listening skills
Subscription Special! Users who purchase 1 or 2 year subscriptions will receive a Digital Lesson Pack with 888 ChinesePod lessons, instantly downloadable.
Starting from $29 a month.
Executive Plan Subscription
For busy but dedicated learners, the Executive Plan is ideal. Daily phone calls with a ChinesePod counselor enable Executive Plan subscribers to put their learning into practice, wherever they are in the world – be that traveling abroad on business, in the office or at home.
The Executive Plan provides personalized learning, adapted to the learner’s work schedule and study needs and includes the following benefits:
- Full Premium subscription access
- A 30-minute phone call to assess the student's needs and language ability
- Monthly study plans, set according to the needs of the learner
- The personal ‘counseling tab’, where study questions may be asked at any time, and are answered by your personal ChinesePod teacher
- 10-minute phone call, 5 days a week, from a ChinesePod counselor to practice Mandarin speaking and listening skills
"[The Executive Plan], being part of the ChinesePod framework, is simply un-equaled, and the richer ChinesePod gets, the more choice and flexibility there is to adapt to my own interests."
Yves Goulnik, Global eMarketing Strategist, Roche Pharmaceuticals
To listen to another of our Executive Plan users, Tim Dyste, discussing his own Executive subscription, click here.
Subscription Special! Users who purchase 1- or 2-year subscriptions will receive a Digital Lesson Pack with 888 ChinesePod lessons, instantly downloadable.
Starting from $125 a month.
Praxis Pass
Our offering to the true linguaphile, not satisfied by learning just one language; the Praxis Pass gives you access to all Praxis Language products:
- Full Premium-level access to all Praxis Language products
Starting from $23 a month
Student Discounts
Ideal for the student who wants to get more out of their Chinese classroom studies. Students with active university accounts are eligible for a 20% discount on any 6 or 12 month subscription (excluding Executive Plan). This subscription also includes:
- access to over 1000 practical & relevant lessons in our archive that you can use to supplement your classroom learning
- access to specially created materials and resources that complement the 'Integrated Chinese' (textbook) syllabus
- access to one of the biggest Chinese language learning communities on the web
Be sure to send us proof of your full-time student status (at least 2 of the following):
- Scanned copy of your school ID
- University website/email address
- Class schedule
- A .edu email address with your name
Please contact us with the required information to ask for your student discount.
ChinesePod also provides group subscriptions for schools and universities. To inquire about the options available to educational institutions, please message us and our sales staff will be in touch with you.
Corporate Solutions
Whether you're part of a foreign team based in China, or doing business with a Chinese-speaking country from your home country, we have convenient and effective learning solutions for you and your organization.
Executive individuals and company groups can now develop their Chinese without affecting their work schedules by using ChinesePod's corporate services. Anywhere, at any time, business professionals can study Chinese using extensive online resources, have a conversation with a ChinesePod teacher or learn as a group under the guidance of a counselor.
ChinesePod supplies effective corporate training to support small and large, domestic & multi-national organizations by providing flexible, convenient and practical solutions to suit every staff member's needs. To find a solution to meet you or your corporation's needs, please message us and our sales staff will be in touch with you.
Payment Methods
Subscriptions can be purchased through (i) secure credit card transactions, (ii) Paypal or (iii) by phone or fax. To get started click here.
- If you are outside of China: tel. no. +86-21-5178-6700
- local and international fax number:+86-21-5178-6723
- You can also contact us if you wish to do a bank or wire transfer.
Monthly Subscription and recurring payment
If you are looking for an affordable month-to-month ChinesePod subscription solution with no long-term commitments, the Monthly Subscription is for you.
The ChinesePod Monthly Subscription gives you the opportunity to be flexible with your subscription payments. Instead of committing to a one-off lump payment, you can pay monthly and stop when it suits you.
Once you subscribe through credit card payment, or by PayPal transaction, we will automatically process your payment every month to avoid the hassle of going through the payment process every time you wish to renew. An email receipt will be sent to you on renewal.
Cancel Recurring Billing
Should you decide to cancel your subscription, simply go to the Update Subscription page and click the Cancel Recurring Billing button. However, if you have just submitted payment and would like to opt out of recurring billing, then please wait until you receive second payment notification before cancelling your recurring billing. Otherwise your whole transaction will be canceled.
Subscription Changes
You can change your subscription type at any time, by clicking the Update Subscription button on your Profile page (or just click here).
The outstanding value on your account (remaining value of current subscription calculated on a per diem basis, plus any Praxis credits on your account) will be applied to your chosen subscription.
If the remaining value is less than the price of your chosen subscription, you will be asked to pay the difference, and if the remaining value exceeds the price of your chosen subscription, the difference will be stored in your account as a 'Praxis Credit', which can be redeemed against any future purchase on this site or any other Praxis Language website.
Changes to and from a Praxis Pass work in the same way except that:
- When selecting a Praxis Pass, the outstanding value from all your accounts with Praxis Language will be applied to the new subscription
- When selecting a single site subscription to replace a Praxis Pass the full outstanding value of the Praxis Pass will be applied, and then all your other accounts will be returned to free user status
Praxis Credits
When you redeem a voucher, or if you change your account type and the new account is worth less than the old one, the value will be stored on your account as a Praxis Credit. This credit is available for any future purchase on this site or any other Praxis Language website.
Money Back Guarantee
ChinesePod offers a 30 day money back guarantee, with no questions asked (except for Executive and Guided, for which the first month of multi-month subscriptions cannot be refunded, and provided you have made no subscription changes). If you wish to cancel your subscription, just e-mail us.
MP3 Lessons (Radio Quality)
These files play at 64 kbps. They are available to the public free of charge, and may be obtained either from the website or the public RSS feed. When you subscribe to our podcast via iTunes you will receive this kind of file.
MP3 Lessons (CD Quality)
These high quality audio files play at 128 kbps (kilobytes per second). Besides having the highest quality audio, this file they also includes the dialogue transcripts as meta data, allowing you to see dialog transcripts and translations directly on your iPod screen.
Custom RSS Lesson Feed
You can configure your personalized RSS feed to contain only the kind of files that you prefer and have them delivered directly to your computer.
PDF Lesson Transcripts
This is a text file that you can download to your computer. It includes the Dialogue Transcript with translations of every phrase, and a list of the Vocabulary and Supplementary Vocabulary for the lesson with translations, too.
Lesson Review Audio
This is an audio file with a review of the lesson’s vocabulary and some phrases where you can hear the words infull sentences. It was created to address a number of issues:
- Review. Review the key vocab for each lesson - including the expansion sentences. Memory and recall strategies are built-in.
- Speaking. The format is ‘generative’, meaning you’re actively challenged to produce words, sentences, etc.
- Pronunciation. Your focus, during the gaps in the audio, can be on recall, or on pronunciation.
Lesson Review Suite
This refers to the Dialogue, Vocabulary, Expansion and Exercises tabs that you can find for every lesson. In these sections you will find interactive ways of reviewing the lesson content.
Vocab Study Tools
In addition to the Vocabulary section, where the vocab and supplementary vocab for each lesson can be found, each user also has a personalized vocabulary list. You can manage your vocabulary list by adding or removing words, grouping them with different labels ,and reviewing them with the Flashcards tool or the Concentration Game.
iPhone Access
Take your lessons, vocab and conversations on-the-go with your iPhone and take advantage of any spare time to continue your studies. Please access at: http://m.chinesepod.com/.
Counseling Session
This is a follow-up from a counselor online. The counselors will answer student questions in a personalized section so the student can get the most out of the ChinesePod learning system.
Personal Study Plan
Students will receive a call from one of the ChinesePod counselors in which the student’s needs and goals will be evaluated. The counselor will then provide astudy plan that fits the student’s Chinese learning requirements.
Daily Speaking Practice
Executive Plan studentswill receive a daily 10-minute phone callduring which they can practice Chinese with a native speaker. The speaking practice will be linked to the content of the lessons the student has studied in order to reinforce the content and allow true mastery.
