» The Jenny Zhu Show - The Shanghai Literary Festival
09/03/10 17:00 from Learn Chinese - ChinesePod
Discussion This week, my guest is JFK Miller, editor at That's Shanghai magazine. He is in the studio to talk about the 8th Shanghai In...

» News and Features - Meeting ChinesePod's Teachers
07/03/10 17:00 from Learn Chinese - ChinesePod
Discussion Women's day is this Monday, March 8th, and in honor of this special holiday, we have a studio full of women today! For some more information about this holiday, check out this...

» Lesson 189. Benefits of Drinking Green Tea.
06/03/10 14:59 from Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk
Learn various names of green tea in Mandarin Chinese and about benefits of drinking green tea from the situational dialog of this lesson. Click on the Sign Up button on the right to access to all audio lessons with detailed PDF transcripts..

» Lesson 001. Greetings in Chinese.
02/03/10 03:00 from Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk
There are several ways of saying hello in Chinese. Learn how to greet people you meet for the first time and people you have not seen for a long time. You can start learning Mandarin from this lesson. In order to download all 100+ lessons ..

» News and Features - New year, new lessons, and a reminder of new prices!
28/02/10 17:00 from Learn Chinese - ChinesePod
Discussion 虎年快乐! After a break for China's New Year celebrations, Jenny and Sarah are back previewing the week ahead at ChinesePod. Prepare yourself for lessons that cover a whole sweep of emotions, from heartache at the airport to frustra..

» News and Features - Happy year of the tiger!
14/02/10 17:00 from Learn Chinese - ChinesePod
Discussion In today's show we're offering a sneak peek of the lessons coming up this week. John's also here to discuss a new feature available to...

» Text Message Greetings for Chinese New Year
13/02/10 05:38 from Laowai Chinese 老外中文
We're only a few hours away from the annual Chinese text-message switchboard overload . Just in case you want to contribute your own duǎnxìn 短信 to the 19 billion that will be sent tonight, here are some common options with rough English tr..

» Job Opening: Teach Chinese to a Panda
09/02/10 09:16 from Laowai Chinese 老外中文
I just saw this article about Měilán's ( 美兰 ) return to China and had to mention it. If you've got a good command of Chinese and English, no infectious diseases, and a bachelor's degree or higher, you might want to consider applying. Altho..

» Nǐ hǎo 你好: A Very Fake Greeting
08/02/10 00:26 from Laowai Chinese 老外中文
I was waiting for my turn at the ping pong table the other night, when an older teacher started walking past me. I'd seen him several times before and even played ping pong with him once. “Nǐ hǎo 你好 ,” I said. He stopped his wa..

» News and Features - Female takeover of ChinesePod!
07/02/10 17:00 from Learn Chinese - ChinesePod
Discussion It's an all-ladies show today. Jenny, Catherine and Sarah are here to talk about the week's upcoming lessons. We've got shows on everything from plumbers and remodeling to going home for the holidays. The team will also discuss ..

» News and Features - Chinese names, Avatar and Meet-ups
31/01/10 17:00 from Learn Chinese - ChinesePod
Discussion Happy weekend, ChinesePoddies! Join us today as we discuss the lessons for the upcoming week (there might be an Avatar lesson coming up!). Sarah (Suxiaoya), Scarlett (Ousijia) and Jenny (Zhu Qi) will also be talking about last w..

» News and Features - Minor Changes, Virtual School, and a Lefty in the Studio
24/01/10 17:00 from Learn Chinese - ChinesePod
Discussion Today's show features John, Jenny and Sarah. The team will be presenting this week's upcoming lessons (and you might learn about some prejudice Sarah has experienced in China)! John will also be introducing ChinesePod's brand ne..

» News and Features - Physical and Virtual Schools
17/01/10 17:00 from Learn Chinese - ChinesePod
Discussion John and Catherine are here today to discuss the lessons coming up on ChinesePod this week. You'll also be finding out about the community's reaction to thread...

» News and Features - Meeting up, moving in and handling emergencies!
10/01/10 17:00 from Learn Chinese - ChinesePod
Discussion Jenny, John and Sarah are in the studio to talk about the exciting lessons we've got in store for you all this week. We've got emergencies, tech support, and big relationship moments. We're also rolling out

» News and Features - Celebrating the New Year with Visitors
03/01/10 17:00 from Learn Chinese - ChinesePod
Discussion This week we're in the studio ringing in the new year with the Banson family, who brought three Chinese-studying kids with them in their visit to the CPod studios. Learn how they use ChinesePod (and hear the

» Free Gift from ChineseTeachers.com
24/12/09 18:14 from Laowai Chinese 老外中文
Shèngdàn kuàilè 圣诞快乐 everyone! (Such a strident seasonal greeting–it just doesn't sound as merry in Chinese.) Before I get back to wrapping my gifts, I thought I'd mention an actual free gift (as opposed to this ) available to everyo..

» Free Gifts
19/12/09 02:06 from Laowai Chinese 老外中文
Alright, pretend when you read the upcoming pinyin you're really listening to a shopkeeper in Guangzhou. I was shopping for Shèngdàn lǐwù 圣诞礼物 in a big shopping mall in Guangzhou. I found a little silk scarf I was considering and the shopk..

» Tennis Players and Drummers
16/12/09 05:51 from Laowai Chinese 老外中文
As I'm sure my English-speaking readers would agree, the agent marker “-er” is tough for Chinese learners. We use it all the time in English (3 times in the previous sentence) but it's not so readily available in Chinese. Examp..

» Stump the Chinese: Stunt
13/12/09 00:04 from Laowai Chinese 老外中文
The other day in my English Corner (yīngyǔ jiǎo 英语角 , basically a club for speaking English), we were talking about publicity stunts and someone used a little electronic dictionary to translate “stunt” as: xuétóu 噱头 If you clic..

» New Song: Kuàilè 快乐
01/12/09 07:12 from Laowai Chinese 老外中文
My little Audacity -powered home recording studio just cranked out my third Chinese pop song: Kuàilè 快乐 (Happy) . Inspirational Story It was my friend Adrian who first said, “Have you ever noticed every Chinese pop song has the word ..