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Would you like to learn Chinese?

I was recently enrolled in a Elementary Mandarin (Chinese) course at my local Junior college (which I highly recommend). The way of teaching it has been pretty standardized to one set of three books. I learned a thing or two from this, I would say, PERHAPS A BIT MORE?

I am really here to talk about a website that I found helpful in learning some of the more “popular” or “street” elements of a language I know nothing to almost nothing about. Chinapod is a website that has daily audio clips that range from absolute beginner to advanced media coverage in Mandarin. The girl in the beginner lessons (which are free) sounds incredibly hot, but from what I know about hot sounding radio chix, they are often messes.

To my knowledge there is a similar site like this for French, Spanish and one coming soon for Japanese.