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Reporta The Economist:

"“Tens of millions” of people in 110 countries now download the free ChinesePod podcasts, Praxis's flagship service, says Mr Carroll. About 250,000 listen regularly and “several thousand” pay for the premium services, which include individual Skype chats with teachers. A second service, SpanishSense, is out, and more will follow..."

Second Language (made) Simple (vía) Skype

Aquí el sitio de la compañía, PRAXIS LANGUAGE. Una vez más, New Market Disruption, esta vez para los Colombo Americano, British Council y demás centros de enseñanza tradicionales de lenguas extranjeras. La conveniencia del iPod (donde puedas, cuando puedas), la conveniencia del propio ritmo, la conveniencia de un precio muy cómodo:

"ChinesePod is a new way to learn Chinese. The free daily podcasts offer practical, high frequency Mandarin dialogs, supplemented by informative and entertaining lesson commentary from experts in the field. Each audio lesson then integrates with dozens of premium features on ChinesePod.com to deepen the learning through repetition and memory aids. These include transcripts, exercises, extended audio, and grammar/pronunciation features. All of this is supplemented by real-time discussion that brings together learners, teachers, and practitioners to create a powerful learning community across ChinesePod.com. Other features, such as the scheduled lessons, one-to-one telepractice, personalized lesson feeds, vocabulary lists, flashcards, games, etc, are designed to appeal to different learning styles and offer the learner as much choice as possible. It is this element of choice that allows learners to learn Mandarin on their own terms. Visit ChinesePod at http://chinesepod.com..."

¿PRECIO? Gratis para empezar. Diálogos y otros, disponibles a diario. Y luego desde USD 9 al mes

PS Hay una oportunidad para los hispano parlantes con buena dicción, pues la compañía junto al Mandarin tiene un programa para enseñarle el español al mundo, se llama SpanishSense