after reading some the comments, i tried the chinesepod and //www.nciku.com and it was fantastic! I especially thought the nciku site was really cool! Thanks Dan! What other features are you guys offering? I felt the study process was so easy and simple with nciku. use the mouse to draw the hanzi, get the meaning in the dictionary, make a vocab list, download the mp3 of the list, memorize & take a test, its so easy! How do you guys make $ if its free though??? Anyways, doesnt matter, thanks for the tip!
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My first response to this question would be chinesepod.com, but you said specifically "no talking about ni hao for 20 mins", so you might have already seen them. The other one is activechinese.com, my company (yay!). We do video podcasts that might sound like what you're looking for... no talking about the dialogues in English. Plus all sorts of goodies... transcripts, recording, activities, self-tests, pdf files, sound files... Right now you can only download lesson 1 free, but you can sign up for a free trial and you have access to all the other lessons. We're working on making some parts of the other lessons available too, so let us know what you think.
I don't know why a lot of people seem to dismiss chinesepod. maybe a lot of you only listened to it in its beginning stages. they now have plenty of 'advanced' lessons with NO ENGLISH at all. and transcripts are available if you pay but i don't really think they are necessary. so i'd think its worth checking out again if thats what you're after.
I love chinesepod. I think its content is superb and even though I don't typically learn anything from it, I do listen in once in a while just for fun. Click the link on the upper right hand side for the advanced lessons where everything is in Chinese. Else, you can type in zh.chinesepod.com.
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