GermanPod

Ja, zu hause, bin derzeit aber in US.

Germanpod lessons thru Chinesepod? Jo jo dat!

Ich habe mal eine Message in die Richtung an CPod geschickt, aber bisher gab's keine Antwort.

Hat wer vielleicht etwas Professionelleres an der Hand als ein Kopfhörermikrophon?

Danke Joachim. Ja gute Idee !

Vielen Dank Henning. Ich gehe sie auf jeden Fall durch. Bin auch nie sicher, wie ich am besten lerne aber manchmal meine ich, die Vielfalt mach's .....

OK Here is the mail:

Hi Sue,

unfortunately I stopped mid 2009 because of time constraints and because it did not bring me forward as much as it used to before.

Nevertheless, here it is:

http://chinesepod.com/community/conversations/post/540

There is a refined version but it only covers lessons up to December 2007:

Viele Grüße aus Köln

Henning

Hi Henning - nein, sorry, nicht erhalten. Kannst du mir helfen? (I had asked Henning where I could find all his useful lists of grammer points on the various lessons, in the hope of finding time to go through them - meine guten Vorsätze für 2010 / my new year's resolution for 2010)

I wouldn't know mate what is usually used but I see from google translate that you're right about it meaning funny.Actually when I first glanced at your word "komisch" it reminded me of kapish [commonly used in English for "understand"] which to me sounds German but apparently is derived from Italian.

"Funny" ist "komisch", nicht wahr?

henning,

Please forgive my extremely limited German.I was trying to say that I thought Sue's original post was both clever and funny [trojan horses,bratwurst passwords,etc].I very much enjoyed reading it.I think your reply to me is saying:

"funny",am I sure I meant that?

..but I could be way off here.Anyway,when I first joined CPod and was considering whether to get a Premium CPod account or a Praxis Pass I emailed Praxis and asked whether a GermanPod was far off the horizon.At the time the answer seemed to be that it was being considered but there was nothing set in concrete.Still,it was confirmed that if a GermanPod did eventuate it would be included in a Praxis Pass,so I ended up subscribing to a Praxis Pass at the time mostly on that basis [plus I thought I could brush up a bit of high school French].As we know the economic climate has changed and so I too am not holding my breath anymore.But as you can see,I do have a genuine interest and by trying to say "funny" I was in no way meaning that in any ridiculing way [?which perhaps my poor choice of German may have implied?..I have no idea sorry] but rather in a positive praising way for what I thought was a well written original and entertaining post by sue,not to mention a kind offer to reach out to fellow poddies. :)

kein Problem - ich habe verstanden was du mit "drollig" meinst

hehe,sehr klug und drollig :)

Brilliant ! You got my vote. Would those sausages be the secret ground-to-air heat-seaking type ? I'm willing to donate anything but money.

I've been waiting for a germanpod for ages.

Das stimmt :)

Yes, perhaps matthiask. Only we would use ChinesePod as our platform because we want to help our ChinesePod friends learn German as well.

hey sue, if i understand you correctly, what you just proposed, is the business model of http://openlanguage.com/ ;)

Well, the sites are still there, but they're running off the archives, so I suppose you could signup for a year and make your own package. It isn't at all clear that these sites will still be online when you come back from China. Who knows. I don't think Praxis is ready to announce that they're dead, they're still part of the Praxis Pass offering. The other pods have _much_ less content than Chinese pod. I'm a little put off, after buying the Praxis pass based on my ChinesePod experience, but that's how it goes, and how its going. I feel lucky that ChinesePod still appears to be going strong.

If French- and ItalianPod are really dead and not coming back, I wonder if they could be repackaged as static products. If I wanted to learn Italian in the future, I'd certainly pay for a CD set with all the lesson audio and PDFs.

Interesting that you can still access spanishpod. Frenchpod's domain still seems to be around.

It's just not gonna happen. Not in the next few years, anyway. Not for German, not for any language.