GermanPod
h4rrydog
June 21, 2008, 01:36 PM posted in General DiscussionHi! Any hints as to when GermanPod might be launched?
Sue
January 15, 2010, 08:58 PMYes, perhaps matthiask. Only we would use ChinesePod as our platform because we want to help our ChinesePod friends learn German as well.
peterstrijdonk
November 29, 2009, 04:04 AMwhen will germanpod be launched?
kensaathoff
December 09, 2009, 02:15 PMi'm also really curious. are there plans to launch it soon? what about any other languages?
changye
December 10, 2009, 02:40 AMI'm afraid I don't think "Germanpod" is commercially feasiable.
bodawei
December 10, 2009, 02:53 AM@Henning
I followed your link and got the amusing message,
'Sorry, you are looking for something that is not here.'
Reminds me that China Telecom has a message when you are talking international using an IP 卡 which says:
'Sorry, only one more minute is awailable (sic).'
Such politeness is impressive in a country where you can be forcibly elbowed out of the way (no words - just a sharp elbow to the ribs and a push) at the counter in your neighbourhood bank.
jah1
December 24, 2009, 11:08 PMI would love to see Germanpod and would definitely subscribe! I also have an academic friend who is interested in German and was amazed by the resources available on Chinesepod for students of Mandarin.
al_walker
December 25, 2009, 01:59 PMI too would be interested in German Pod.
And Cantonese Pod and Portuguese Pod.
Nikochan
December 26, 2009, 04:53 AMI would be interested in a GermanPod as well.
sweetwatermelon94
June 21, 2008, 05:27 PMHenning,
and I expected you will be "GermanPod Lead Host" ;-)
simonpettersson
January 15, 2010, 04:55 PMIt's just not gonna happen. Not in the next few years, anyway. Not for German, not for any language.
matthiask
January 15, 2010, 04:56 PMAlthough it's my native language, and as you can see in my avatar, there is a interest, I gave up on the hope that GermanPod will ever see the light. There is though a GermanClass on the internet, however, that one is too annoying to listen to.
henning
January 15, 2010, 05:01 PMIn case you haven't noticed: The only consumer products still mentioned on the Praxis corporate site are ChinesePod and EnglishPod.
There it goes, the era of the xPods.
pretzellogic
Interesting that you can still access spanishpod. Frenchpod's domain still seems to be around.
pretzellogic
January 15, 2010, 05:49 PMInteresting that you can still access spanishpod. Frenchpod's domain still seems to be around.
daniel70
January 15, 2010, 05:59 PMspanishpod produces 1 or 2 lessons a week. french and italian pod are dead in the water.
simonpettersson
If French- and ItalianPod are really dead and not coming back, I wonder if they could be repackaged as static products. If I wanted to learn Italian in the future, I'd certainly pay for a CD set with all the lesson audio and PDFs.
daniel70
Well, the sites are still there, but they're running off the archives, so I suppose you could signup for a year and make your own package. It isn't at all clear that these sites will still be online when you come back from China. Who knows. I don't think Praxis is ready to announce that they're dead, they're still part of the Praxis Pass offering. The other pods have _much_ less content than Chinese pod. I'm a little put off, after buying the Praxis pass based on my ChinesePod experience, but that's how it goes, and how its going. I feel lucky that ChinesePod still appears to be going strong.
simonpettersson
January 15, 2010, 06:44 PMIf French- and ItalianPod are really dead and not coming back, I wonder if they could be repackaged as static products. If I wanted to learn Italian in the future, I'd certainly pay for a CD set with all the lesson audio and PDFs.
Sue
January 15, 2010, 07:40 PMSeems to be quite a bit of interest out there for a GermanPod. Praps we German-speakers could feed in Podcasts via ChinesePod, smuggle them in in the form of sausages (like Trojan horses), only recognizable for the initiated! Password: Bratwurst (standard German sausage for you potential Newbie-GermanPoddies). Can someone help me on how to tape and load a podcast ? What lesson request do you have? What royalties would ChinesePod demand from us sub-contractors for using their site ? Or would we get paid for expanding the services offered? Any offers?
matthiask
January 15, 2010, 08:24 PMhey sue, if i understand you correctly, what you just proposed, is the business model of http://openlanguage.com/ ;)
byroncgo
January 15, 2010, 04:46 PMI'm also interested in a GermanPod - it would be quite helpful for my work
simonpettersson
It's just not gonna happen. Not in the next few years, anyway. Not for German, not for any language.
henning
June 21, 2008, 02:06 PMH4rryDog,
jobs are still open:
http://praxislanguage.com/about/jobs/