Discussing ChinesePod and learning Chinese
kencarroll
May 28, 2007, 02:51 PM posted in General DiscussionIn case you didn't know there are lots of places where you can find ChinesePod and language learning related discussions, other than here in 'Connect'. First offf, there's the ChinesePod Forums with moderators Bazza, Aunty Sue, Henning, will, RobAnt, Bob Mrotek, coljac, and Liulianxiaoyu. Go, register, and have fun.
Then you have the ChinesePod the blogs. We have tons of them - in various languages. Least, but not last of these is my blog on Praxis Language. Next there's Frank Fradella's marvelous Newbie blog. In addition you have the German blog with Joachim and Anne - for native German speakers who wish to learn Chinese. Meanwhile Antonio Vergara pens our Spanish blog. In French we have the insanely talented Christian Mondorf. In Japan we have the unmistakable Kenta Torimoto. Our youngest and most energetic blogger of all is Hyunwoo Sun, who blogs in Korean.
And as if that isn't enough, you can also go to SpanishSense for some more language-related discussion, in Spanish or English!
You'll never be alone when it comes to this crew.
leviathan
May 28, 2007, 09:44 PM您良师益友谢谢你
canadamartin
May 28, 2007, 11:39 PMWell, before anything, and above all else, a big thank you! This goes out to everyone at ChinesePod and SpanishSense. I signed up for both services for both professional (I'm a German/French speaker) and personal (I lived in Taiwan a couple of years) reasons and this site really does fit the bill. I'm very impressed with the efficiency of your support staff(s) and how quickly they've responded to questions and tidied up any concerns I've had. And the lessons are spot on. As a language learner I'm fed the right amount, context and chance to reproduce the input. As a result I'm rekindling a lot of old, buried Chinese expressions and the Spanish is a natural partner to French so I'm really comfortable and feel like I'm in my element. Languages are a passion and future PhD studies will only deepen my use and warrant the investment of the informal yet effective study of these next two linguistic tools in my shed. My hats off to all those involved in recognizing the great potential this product could be and your keen and open approach to improving practically day to day! Arigato!
kencarroll
May 29, 2007, 01:51 AMcanadamartin, Thx for the supportive words. What is the focus of your PhD?
kencarroll
May 29, 2007, 03:23 AMActually I didn't include ChinesePod Extra in the list, http://extra.chinesepod.com/ where you have the Saturday Show and David Lancashire's Movie Madness. Go see for yourself.
bazza
May 29, 2007, 12:04 PMThe forum seems to have gone a bit quiet recently.
fudawei
May 28, 2007, 06:21 PMI dearly love the foreign language blogs. They tend to have low posting traffic -- I surely hope that doesn't discourage the people who run them. Just because I don't have much reason to post there doesn't mean I don't treasure their efforts.