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Chinesepod: Rare backstage tour with Hank Horkoff
This quick tour of the Chinesepod offices in Shanghai with Hank Horkoff reveals many secrets of the highly popular Web 2.0 Chinese-language learning service.
Launched by a web expert (Horkoff) and a language teaching expert (Ken Carroll), Praxis Language Ltd has evolved into an office of Babel, with language teachers from Shanghai now using their Web 2.0 platform to offer lessons in Spanish, Italian, French and more languages on the way.
In this video you can see the school’s set up and studios, while also hearing a little bit about Ken Carroll’s idea that the web creates super-enabled teachers with star-quality. (We agree in your case, of course, Ken.)
A couple more videos coming soon on their novel language teaching ideas and interesting business model.
Disclosure: I have subscribed to Chinesepod since I started learning Chinese and find their podcasts extremely useful.
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I’ve used Chinese and Spanish Pods, and enjoy them, but I never thought about them all being in the same physical space. Only in Shanghai, I suppose…
Can’t wait to see more.