Want to get to daily podcasts: suggestions?

jseligstein
 May 27, 2008, 08:32 PM posted in General Discussion

Hey folks, trying to catch up very very slowly to the daily cast.  Any advice: should I just do a few of the beginning ones in the series, then listen daily, or should I try to do more than one a day?  I don't want to burn myself out, but I would like to be able to chat with others on the daily cast.

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boran
 May 29, 2008, 10:49 AM

It's really up to you on how you want to do it - there's no order you need to follow.  The recently added lessons will have the most active conversations and thus you are more likely to get any questions answered by listening to them soon after they are released.  You may also want to look at the very first set of Newbie lessons to get some of the basic vocabulary and greetings.

My own style depends on what kind of time I have but I prefer doing lessons in batches (2 or 3 at a time, a few times a week) .  I think this helps me get into the "ChinesePod zone" rather than just listening to just one lesson a day.  I think this approach may only apply to Newbie and Elementary lessons though since the dialogs are shorter - the more advance lessons have enough content to keep you quite busy with just one lesson at a time.

I try to keep current doing the latest lessons so I'm in tune with the community and occasionally search for older lessons to bookmark so I'll always have something to listen to in case I get into a serious "zone" and run out of current lessons at my level.