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Using ChinesePod is the best way to learn Chinese.

Don't believe us? You could ask our 300,000 registered users. Or, ask the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, NBC, NPR, China Daily, the Irish Times, or the Sydney Morning Herald.

Mandarin Chinese is an intimidating language - characters, four tones, mounds of vocabulary - but we make it fun! With ChinesePod you'll be speaking Chinese in a few minutes, and conversing within weeks. You'll learn real Chinese - the kind of Chinese spoken by more than a billion people - from a team of experts.

Take our award-winning audio lessons with you anywhere you go, on your MP3 player or smartphone, and then come back to ChinesePod.com to review and reinforce what you've learned. Choose the lessons that suit your level and interests (we have more than 1,300 self-contained lessons to pick from!) to build on your knowledge of Chinese and your growing confidence with the language. Meanwhile, ChinesePod Teacher Services provide regular speaking practice via Skype, ideal if you're looking to learn to spoken Chinese, fast.