GermanPod

h4rrydog
June 21, 2008, 01:36 PM posted in General Discussion

Hi!  Any hints as to when GermanPod might be launched?

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henning
June 21, 2008, 02:06 PM

H4rryDog,

jobs are still open:

http://praxislanguage.com/about/jobs/

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Sue
January 15, 2010, 08:58 PM

Yes, perhaps matthiask. Only we would use ChinesePod as our platform because we want to help our ChinesePod friends learn German as well.

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peterstrijdonk
November 29, 2009, 04:04 AM

when will germanpod be launched?

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kensaathoff
December 09, 2009, 02:15 PM

i'm also really curious. are there plans to launch it soon? what about any other languages?

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changye
December 10, 2009, 02:40 AM

I'm afraid I don't think "Germanpod" is commercially feasiable.

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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.   

 

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jah1
December 24, 2009, 11:08 PM

I 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.

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al_walker
December 25, 2009, 01:59 PM

I too would be interested in German Pod.

And Cantonese Pod and Portuguese Pod.

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Nikochan
December 26, 2009, 04:53 AM

I would be interested in a GermanPod as well.

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sweetwatermelon94
June 21, 2008, 05:27 PM

Henning,

and I expected you will be "GermanPod Lead Host" ;-)

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simonpettersson
January 15, 2010, 04:55 PM

It's just not gonna happen. Not in the next few years, anyway. Not for German, not for any language.

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matthiask
January 15, 2010, 04:56 PM

Although 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.

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henning
January 15, 2010, 05:01 PM

In 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.

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pretzellogic

Interesting that you can still access spanishpod. Frenchpod's domain still seems to be around.

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pretzellogic
January 15, 2010, 05:49 PM

Interesting that you can still access spanishpod. Frenchpod's domain still seems to be around.

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daniel70
January 15, 2010, 05:59 PM

spanishpod produces 1 or 2 lessons a week. french and italian pod are dead in the water.

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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.

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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.

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simonpettersson
January 15, 2010, 06:44 PM

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.

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Sue
January 15, 2010, 07:40 PM

Seems 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?

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matthiask

hey sue, if i understand you correctly, what you just proposed, is the business model of http://openlanguage.com/ ;)

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Sue

Yes, perhaps matthiask. Only we would use ChinesePod as our platform because we want to help our ChinesePod friends learn German as well.

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matthiask
January 15, 2010, 08:24 PM

hey sue, if i understand you correctly, what you just proposed, is the business model of http://openlanguage.com/ ;)

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byroncgo
January 15, 2010, 04:46 PM

I'm also interested in a GermanPod - it would be quite helpful for my work

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simonpettersson

It's just not gonna happen. Not in the next few years, anyway. Not for German, not for any language.