The lessons can be accessed in a number of ways, either through a mobile app or on the website. A lot of the content, such as the full audio lesson, the dialogue, vocabulary review and grammar explanations can also be downloaded for offline or later use at your convenience. Other features are only available while logged in, including all kinds of exercises.
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Apart from this, there are also hundreds of lessons ordered into courses of different kinds, also sorted by the same levels. These work much the same as lessons, except that they are connected to each other more directly. Many are series of lessons focusing on a particular story or theme, which makes it more thematically consistent (kind of like a textbook compared to random text from a textbook).
There are also other shows, such as one called 请问 which answers questions about specific aspects of Chinese, such as the difference between 能, 会 and 可以 or 使用 利用 and just 用. Other shows include lessons in Shanghainese, KTV and Pinyin.
So, what do you get apart from the lessons? First, you get a dialogue transcript which is easy to go through and has a built-in pop-up dictionary. Then you also get a separate vocabulary list that has a nifty function where you can see that particular word as it appears in other sentences in other lessons. This is great! There are also a few selected expansions where you can learn more about words or patterns used in the lesson, as well as grammar explanations.
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2016
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34 comments James Lester says:2016-03-16 at 23:17Interesting thoughts. I thought Chinese pod struggled after they moved to Taiwan. One of the reasons I terminated my contract was finding the lessons became very soppy. Fiona is clearly a very talented women however it was always going to be difficult following on from Jenny Zhu and the team. Might revisit in the future as pop up Chinese has slowed downed on content.
I had chinesepod for some time during 2010 -2015. Discontinued when moving to Brazil. Excellent stuff. Ha e missed it since. Back in native Austria I consider to continue. Meanwhile aged 82 I am not sure of I still find sufficient concentration. What about a 3 month try. But how? What parts/lessons? Kindly make suggestion
There are a few lessons missing (such as Cooking Wings), but I only have the dialogue and podcast, no audio review. There were a few lessons that were originally intermediate, but changed to pre-intermediate (such as going to the dentist).
after reading some the comments, i tried the chinesepod and //www.nciku.com and it was fantastic! I especially thought the nciku site was really cool! Thanks Dan! What other features are you guys offering? I felt the study process was so easy and simple with nciku. use the mouse to draw the hanzi, get the meaning in the dictionary, make a vocab list, download the mp3 of the list, memorize & take a test, its so easy! How do you guys make $ if its free though??? Anyways, doesnt matter, thanks for the tip!
I personally found the easier lessons too easy and the harder lessons too hard. Either way, the english does make it fun to start with, but after a while its a just boring and time wasting. Just get on to the comprehensible input already!
Ah, good feedback. Try out this feed which has the first four lessons from each level. The lessons in between can be downloaded individually from the site for free, or you can purchase access to the premium feed for select levels.
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My first response to this question would be chinesepod.com, but you said specifically "no talking about ni hao for 20 mins", so you might have already seen them. The other one is activechinese.com, my company (yay!). We do video podcasts that might sound like what you're looking for... no talking about the dialogues in English. Plus all sorts of goodies... transcripts, recording, activities, self-tests, pdf files, sound files... Right now you can only download lesson 1 free, but you can sign up for a free trial and you have access to all the other lessons. We're working on making some parts of the other lessons available too, so let us know what you think.
I don't know why a lot of people seem to dismiss chinesepod. maybe a lot of you only listened to it in its beginning stages. they now have plenty of 'advanced' lessons with NO ENGLISH at all. and transcripts are available if you pay but i don't really think they are necessary. so i'd think its worth checking out again if thats what you're after.
I love chinesepod. I think its content is superb and even though I don't typically learn anything from it, I do listen in once in a while just for fun. Click the link on the upper right hand side for the advanced lessons where everything is in Chinese. Else, you can type in zh.chinesepod.com.
The podcasts are light and easy to listen to due to the fun conversations they feature. Foreign guest speakers are also sometimes present and actively participate in the lessons, which can be useful and inspiring for new learners!
3. For young kids with Chinese speaking background, I highly recommend 2kids (iPhone and iPad): Character learning integrated with fun stories and activities. True beginners will find it hard to engage in the stories. First few lessons free.
After the disruption of moving & settling in (but also USING Chinese every day!) I am now going to resume the lessons as they are invaluable. Other overseas teachers have been learning but apart from one who has been studying Mandarin at university for 2 or 3 years I am well ahead of the rest so, Thank you Chinese Track.
I just purchased a one-month subscription to your site because I wanted to see how it works;-) I must say that I have already tried out some other sites (which you probably know;-) but so far I like your site best (even though I have not tried out yet many options in the premium section). I listened to the first 10 lessons before I decided to subscribe and I really liked the way you present the study material.
As an American Born Chinese (ABC) and native English speaker, I feel that Chinese Track is really the BEST Mandarin Chinese learning websites! I studied Mandarin at UCLA for one summer and the National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taipei, Taiwan for 3 semesters. And though I feel that both UCLA and NCCU language instruction was truly excellent, I also feel CT lessons are equally superb and even superior in many ways. If I could do it again, I wish that I studied via CT before going to Taiwan because it would have made my language immersion travels in Taiwan and China more effective.
And since the lessons have titles, as an intermediate level learner, I can learn or review a topic and vocabulary that is important to my life. I can use vocabulary that I know I would use right away instead of studying a topic that have little immediate relevance to my real life.
I have been listening to lessons 61-68 during my commute. Last night I went through all of the online material for lesson 63. I am impressed. I like the pace and the level of repetition. It seems like a good learning approach.
As far as the course goes, I started with number one just for context and I am now on lesson 57. I am not sure what level my Chinese actually is, but I have known most everything on the lessons I have finished so far. Although, it has been a great review for me on grammar, vocabulary and tones.
Finally, I think more reviews and mini-reviews would be very beneficial. I know that in the course you build on past lessons and vocabulary, but little quizzes in an English to Chinese format are great as well. Keep up the good work! 2ff7e9595c
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