Spend a little time on ChinesePod.com and you will quickly realize how important our community is to the service we deliver. Our community keeps us motivated and is a constant source of inspiration. Meeting the needs of such a large and diverse group of Mandarin learners is a constant challenge. Impossible if we had to do everything ourselves. Thankfully our community has stepped up and used ChinesePod as a source of inspiration in designing new and exciting tools for Mandarin learners. Here are just a few examples of the creative things happening in the ChinesePod community.
The ChinesePod Forum – Probably the most dynamic discussion of ChinesePod anywhere on the Internet (besides ChinesePod.com of course). The ChinesePod forum, established by Marc & Bazza, has quickly become a meeting place for ChinesePod aficionados around the world. Definitely check out the Forum if you have never visited. There are hundreds of conversations about everything ChinesePod, Chinese and China. LINK: http://www.wushu.be/ChinesePod/
Flashcards – One of our users has created flashcards for the vocabulary used in our first 20 lessons. Check it out at FlashcardExchange.com. LINK: http://flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/356131
Character Writing Sheet – Want to practice writing Chinese characters? Character writing sheets are a great tool to consider. This user has made a printable character writing sheet for Elementary lesson pod #32: Do you have vegetables? LINK: http://www.digitbit.com/transcripts/?cat=3
These are just a few examples of tools and resources developed by the ChinesePod learning community. Please help us identify others.
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I loved the practice sheet. Seems like there is something new all the time on Chinese pod. My eyes are getting older and often the characters on the computer are so small that I have trouble seeing the exact strokes. It is better on the daily lesson printouts. Having the characters big enough to analyze is great. Makes them much easier to learn how to write. I hope the person in the community doing this does more than just the one lesson’s worth.
Well, I would like to use this occasion to draw some attention to the remixes that I have made from the podcasts. These contain only the dialogues and some key phrases with time gaps to repeat. The download links are on the wiki (http://www.chinesepod.com/wiki/index.php?title=Drilling_%26_Repeating). I usually listen to each show a couple of times, then then I do the remix and use this to repeat the key phrases a couple of times. Next I spend some time learning the characters, repeating the extra phrases in the learning center. I write some more and then I finish with the exercises. However I always keep 20 or so of these remixes on my mp3 player so that I can constantly repeat what I have learned. This may not be the best method for everyone, but I feel comfortable with this method. I share the mp3′s hoping that they are useful to others too.
Marc in Belgium
I have a few Chinesepod sets at flashcardexchange also.
So far five of the elementary lesson, if you click on the Chinesepod tag you will see that at least two others have started also.
My cards http://www.flashcardexchange.com/user/view/165565
Sue,
Chris sent me an email to let me know that he has decided to continue on designing new Character Writing Sheets. Chris is using a Blog to distribute these tools. Let Chris know if you are using his writing sheets by leaving a comment on his blog. I am sure he would appreciate hearing your thoughts and suggestions.
I’ve been listening to Marc’s remixes and they are pretty good for quick review, check them out!
http://www.chinesepod.com/wiki/index.php?title=Drilling_%26_Repeating
Thanks Marc! One of the things that makes ChinesePod unique is this community and all the extra things they are doing to help eachother out.
Hi there!
Would love to start teaching Chinese next year to primary and early secondary pupils here in Scotland – has anyone done illustrated flashcards which a teache could download and laminate – we still do not have computer suites in all our classrooms so it would be more practical to sometimes print out flashcards. The children could then test each other.
I am a complete beginner in Chinese so I have a lot of work ahead of me I know. But waht little i know of the language fascinates the pupils – what do the Chinese say? A 1000 mile journey begins with ….
Any suggestions how to tackle this welcome – Chinesepod in all schools would be a good start however!
Meryl (in Scotland)
Hi Meryl
Not sure what you mean by illustrated. If you mean showing the Hanzi character, there is a very nice group (free) and downloadable on
http://www.forumosa.com/taiwan which is a forum mostly for expats in Taiwan go down to Learning Chinese and it is in the first sticky or you can go directly to the website of the person who created these at http://www.truant.net/flashcards.
Hope this helps
Mike in Jubei
Hi Meryl,
I think kids like fun things, why not take a few of the newbie Cpod casts, make up visual materials and games for them and have a Cpod ‘lesson’! I think the kids will take to the language much more if they hear it rather than just seeing some flashcards.