Why Choose Us
What is ChinesePod
Not your typical Mandarin online course.
Real Language
Don’t waste your precious study time drilling grammar and vocabulary. Many linguists, as well as the team at ChinesePod, believe that you learn better by doing that you acquire new knowledge faster by listening and experiencing rather than with your nose stuck in a boring textbook. ChinesePod creates Mandarin Chinese lessons with real language that native speakers use, not stiff, unnatural textbook phrases that won’t do you any good in the real world.
Easy To Use
We provide over 4000 entertaining and practical audio & video lessons that make learning the Mandarin language fun. Simply download a lesson and study it anywhere, at anytime, on any device. Each lesson also comes with downloadable dialogues, vocabulary, grammar and practical exercises. The Mandarin Language will actually stick when you have the option of listening to it at your own convenience.
Short, Self-contained Lessons
Learning Chinese might seem daunting but don’t worry, our lessons are short which means you can easily fit it into your day. You are going to stick to studying Mandarin when it is super easy to do. Spend 5 to 10 minutes a day studying Chinese and reap the rewards.
Learning Can Be Fun
Our lessons are situational, meaning you won’t get stuck studying school subjects or sports when what you actually want to do is open a bank account or break up with someone. With over 4000 lessons, we have every situation that you could imagine covered and ready for you to study.
Study Your Way
The beauty of ChinesePod is that you don’t need to study our lessons in a specific order. Our lessons are self-contained, meaning we explain everything you need to know within that lesson. Just pick your Chinese skill level, then a topic you want to study and you are good to go. Your conversations don’t follow the chapters of a textbook so why should your learning?
Grow with ChinesePod
At the end of the day, our main goal is to help you invest in yourself and reach your personal goals with Mandarin Chinese. We can’t be the company we are without our loyal and awesome subscribers. Join the community of over one million people who have learned Mandarin Chinese with ChinesePod -- we can’t wait to meet you!
Our Approach
Our content is different, quirky, and fun.
Don’t be shy: start speaking right away with ChinesePod’s active community. Interaction is key when it comes to education and you will uncover numerous resources by interacting and sharing information with fellow students, tutors and native Mandarin speakers on ChinesePod. Join the community on our online forum or our social networks, including Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Every user has the ability to comment on any lesson and make suggestions on how to improve the content. Our ChinesePod staff, as well as loyal users are very responsive and supportive in answering your questions.
Our forum is a place for fellow learners to discuss, ask, and converse on all things Mandarin. Beyond that, you will have the ability to request features that can make ChinesePod an even more powerful language learning tool. Request for study advice or discover what’s new in the world of learning Chinese. The more you participate, the more points you'll gain towards your trust level. At a high enough trust level, you'll gain new abilities, making our forum a fun and interactive space.
Say It Right (S.I.R) is a brand new video course from ChinesePod entirely devoted towards teaching you the correct pronunciation of the Mandarin Language. his video course contains 22 lessons, in which you will learn all about pinyin, tones, tricky combinations, tone change rules and difficult sounds. These lessons work to give you a comprehensive and unprecedented education on the most daunting aspect of learning Mandarin Chinese: sounding like a native.
Perhaps you are not that interested in studying but more curious about Chinese culture? We’ve got you covered. We have a slew of awesome podcasts covering a diverse range of topics like food, poetry, social life and much more to satiate your curiosity.
Our System
Learn situational Mandarin with a click of a button.
ChinesePod’s library of over 4000+ audio & video Mandarin lessons is the largest you will find… anywhere. Our system works by training through mass input. Each lesson begins by going over the dialogue three times. Next up, we chunk each sentence into translations, with each individual translation repeated three times. Following this introduction to the dialogue, we delve into the core lesson, where we explain the grammatical structure behind the dialogue. By the end of the lesson, you have a clear idea of how and why the dialogue is structured as such, and have heard the sentences at least twenty times, giving you ample opportunity to have it imprinted in your mind.
Once you are finished with a lesson, the lesson’s page gives you enriching review opportunities, including vocabulary, sentence reviews, and expansions, where we give further examples of the lessons grammatical structure and vocabulary in different context. Furthermore, our community is made up of active and passionate learners and each lesson’s discussion board is filled with lively conversation about the lessons content.
Studying with a textbook’s rigid structure is de-motivating: you’re going to stick with learning Mandarin when you have the freedom to study what you want in a short, reliable, and proven format. Join the community of over one million students who have ditched the textbook and used ChinesePod to study Mandarin… on their own terms.
