ChinesePod Courses give you permanent access to a series of lessons, custom-picked and designed by an educational professional to guide you along your language learning journey. This option is perfect for learners who want to learn more about a specific topic or improve their Chinese ability faster in certain areas. Along with the regular study and review tools, some Courses also feature special additional learning materials, including custom-made visual aids and exercises to help drive home the specific lessons of the Course. Please note that many of the lessons in Courses are also included in the lesson library, meaning that Basic or Premium users will be able to access them while their subscriptions are active. Courses students, however, will have lifetime access to these lessons. Extra class materials are also available to Courses students only.

Subscriptions are a way to get acquainted with ChinesePod's 1,800+ award-winning lessons — purchasing a subscription grants you access to all of our lessons for the length of the subscription, which can be anywhere from one month to two years. As long as you're subscribed you will have access to both the Library and all newly published lessons. Three types of subscriptions are available: Basic, Premium, and Praxis.

To help learners who don't have much chance to practice Chinese in their daily lives, we've designed Speaking Classes, which pair learners with a trained native-speaker teacher to get all the Chinese speaking practice they'll need, as well as expert guidance on curriculum planning. Please note that Speaking Classes only give you speaking sessions with your dedicated ChinesePod teacher. For access to lessons, please purchase either a Subscription (Premium or Basic) or a Course. If you're just after some casual verbal practice or would like to provide your own study material, however, you can purchase Speaking Classes alone. We also offer a wide variety of packages and schedules to suit any learner's needs.