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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6188 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 25 17 April 2011 at 4:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Every once in a while I try to incorporate ChinesePod into my study routine, but I find the dialogs too short to use for say 30 minutes of listening practice. I'd rather listen to 6 Assimil lessons in a row than to a dozen or more disjointed ChinesePod lessons.
Or perhaps I am trying the wrong podcast? Edited by newyorkeric on 17 April 2011 at 4:54am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5384 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 10 of 25 17 April 2011 at 4:57am | IP Logged | ||
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But ChinesePod has hundreds of dialogs...so you could listen to one after another after
another... Edited by LatinoBoy84 on 17 April 2011 at 4:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6188 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 25 17 April 2011 at 5:02am | IP Logged | ||
But wouldn't they be short 20 seconds or less dialogs? There would be no continuity... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5768 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 12 of 25 17 April 2011 at 6:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Do you mean lessons or dialogs? For continuity, see what you think of CLO. The thing is a CLO lesson may not necessarily have an associated dialog. Each CLO level has 60 lessons but there may be say 40 dialogs because some of the lessons will cover grammar, proverbs or something else that they didn't work into a "regular dialog". The CLO lessons are free on their website. To get the complete transcripts, separate dialogs, etc, you'd have to "buy the level". Edited by Snowflake on 17 April 2011 at 6:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6188 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 25 18 April 2011 at 7:42am | IP Logged | ||
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I meant dialogs. I downloaded a bunch of ChinesePod dialogs from newbie or beginner lessons, and each was extremely short, say like 10 seconds. So I never felt like I got into a flow when listening to them.
I'll check out CLO. Edited by newyorkeric on 18 April 2011 at 7:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5384 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 14 of 25 18 April 2011 at 1:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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cslpod is nice in that one can download the entire years content for about $20. They
have lessons available for four years currently. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rolf Senior Member United Kingdom improvingmydutch.blo Joined 5816 days ago 107 posts - 134 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch | Message 15 of 25 19 April 2011 at 12:19am | IP Logged | ||
But Chinesepod is not intended to listen to only for the dialogues. If you don't feel the need to listen to the entire podcast with the analysis then maybe you are aiming at too low a level. Have you tried the advanced material? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5768 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 16 of 25 19 April 2011 at 2:45am | IP Logged | ||
I like the lack of English. The price is definitely very nice too. I wish they had separate audio files with just the dialog or story. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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