I have imported three sets of ChinesePod lessons and made them available to LingQers. Some members are now using them.
The lessons I have made public are all from the early lessons that ChinesePod has allowed to be shared. The lesson series are called Chinese Pod Newbie, Chinese Pod Elementary Lessons, and Chinese Pod Intermediate Lessons. I have aimed to include English translations and Pinyin transcriptions for all of them (if any are omitted, please let me know). I myself find that having all three written forms available together makes it easy for me to âget intoâ the meaning of the words, so that is what I have done with the more recent contributions. The lessons are in general reasonably interesting, and cover basic vocabulary and grammatical instructions.
If they prove popular I want to make more available, though as I would rather spend my time learning than putting in photos etc, I will wait and see the response before I do so. Please let me know how you get on with the lessons!
They are past my level and unfortunately Chinesepod doesnât have high(er) level content that is freely available. I do still think the Chinesepod podcasts are on of the best.
Did you upload more âprivateâ Chinesepod lessons that in some way I could access?
Thanks for replying, cossiemickey. What do you mean by âpast my levelâ? Do you mean that they are too easy? I could download higher level lessons for you. Perhaps you could help me out with my learning if I download some for you. Write me a note on my wall.
Probably more hiding in the library? It would be good if the library search function was reliable
ginkgo - I couldnât find your intermediate course? sent you a pm.
Personally, I think once you get to the intermediate cpod lessons, it is much better to dive straight to native content, than continue with higher cpod lessons.
Whenever cpod run a penny special Iâll dive in and download all the elementary and intermediate dialgoues. I have thousands now (from cpod and popup). Mostly I stick with native content, but even now will still put on these types of dialogues for a few hours each week.
One thing you never really get, as a non native, is the constant exposure to a wide variety of simple everyday chatting type content, but cpod elementary and inter come close to filling this gap.
Completely agree with adding the English and pinyin for this level. But this is a lot of work for the sharer, however.
Lingq should consider offering âpinyin over hanziâ as a reading option for all beginners.
Alex, the library search function and the playlist function are both a bit of a mess/bother. Any chance these will ever get fixed? Playlist function completely broken at present.
Thank you, I missed the big batch of Chinesepod that includes some intermediate content. The library search option often leads me to really boring content, whilst I miss out on the interesting stuff.
I am familiar with the video of Steve in which he suggests jumping to native content, but I have not yet reached that point myself and I donât like to review lessons over and over, I prefer going through new content every time, I read it once and check the blue/yellow words while doing so and then listen to it once. This way the content doesnât bore me and I am still picking up a lot.
In my own learning experience I have never bothered doing the pinyin over Hanzi, but for Chinese I use ZhongWen to read the pinyin of words I donât know. I have never felt that Hanzi was a big problem, but I guess that really depends on the learner
