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Interview: Coco Zhao, from jazz to M. Butterfly
Not that we didn’t believe the Yahoo! rankings and BBC interview -- hell, we even suggested buying stock many months back -- but we’re fairly certain that once CNN flies in to do a piece on how Shanghai-based ChinesePod.com is changing how people learn Mandarin, it’s big -- as in big big. (Full disclosure: The writer of this post occasionally works for ChinesePod.)
ChinesePod was founded by Ken Carroll of Kai En Language School fame, and Hank Horkoff just over a year ago. Now they have a staff of 40+ (including a recent addition of John from the Sinosplice blog). The combination of 15-minute (free) daily downloadable lessons and a site full of transcripts and flash-cards has proven successful -- they even have some imitators trying to do the same for Japanese, Italian and more.
Beats the hell out of the “ma - ma - ma - ma” courses we took when we were first got here ... plus, Jenny Zhu (pictured) is really hot ... which, as you know, makes all the difference in a teacher.
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Picture of Jenny Zhu, ChinesePod host.
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I wish my first year Chinese teacher was Jenny.
-- MoJo
Looks like chinesepod has some competition! I was searching the net a few days ago and saw this website: www.activechinese.com - learning chinese with FLASH animation, SKYPE your tutor for a live tutoring session. Right now, they have a demo that you can watch for free. Look out chinesepood!