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HSK scholarships

April 02, 2008 at 07:45 AM

大家好, I'm curious if anyone here has had experience with one of these. I took the 汉语水平考试 last year and received a call this week from a professor here in the U.S.... Read more

Energy beverage commercial on CCTV4

April 01, 2008 at 06:07 PM

For some weeks, CCTV4 has been showing a commercial for a kind of energy drink. It used to really get on my nerves, especially because in played several times per ho... Read more

Can you tell the difference?

April 01, 2008 at 04:40 PM

This is an interesting test: http://www.alllooksame.com/ I only got 7 out of 18 on faces, I thought I would do better than that.  Read more

New characters?

April 01, 2008 at 02:26 PM

A question for the friends of ethymology out there: When have the last new Hanzi been "invented" and put into use? Qing-Dynasty? Republic? Or are there eve... Read more

The new "VIP level"

April 01, 2008 at 06:47 AM

I have had the pleasure to pre-test the new CPod "VIP level" for a few hours now and I must say I am impressed - despite some minor glitches. Only how to e... Read more

CHINESE POD OWNERS!!!PLEASE READ&RESPOND

March 31, 2008 at 10:49 PM

whats up with having to pay??  i read about you guys in a magazine and it said you were 100% free!!  i might as well buy Rosetta Stone @ the price you guys... Read more

Still confused over ‘yao4′ 要 and ‘xiang3′ 想 in everday speech

March 31, 2008 at 02:08 PM

Sorry everyone, but I am still confused over the difference between ‘yao4′ 要 and ‘xiang3′ 想 in everday speech? Is one more polite than anothe... Read more

Stunt Toddler Diaries - Preschool Mandarin

March 31, 2008 at 01:51 AM

Hello. My little nephew, the Stunt Toddler (b. June 2005), began receiving exposure to Mandarin for the first time in January of this year (2008), when he began atte... Read more

Thank you C-pod!!

March 31, 2008 at 01:18 AM

I'm going on my 2nd week here in Shanghai, China... because of C-pod i have been able to go about daily activities with great ease. I can take taxis, go shopping... Read more

Using the Exported Vocab

March 30, 2008 at 09:12 PM

I study all my vocab off-line and I know I'm not the only one. For some time now I have been copying the vocab from the pdf transcripts and then importing it int... Read more