Talk:ChinesePod

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This article was nominated for deletion on 12 April 2008. The result of the discussion was keep.

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Language note, If the team have better English Language skills - they use a lot of loose "slangy" terms, they would often find there is a better translation in English (UK) than they are using.Having said that this is a good course. Their is a slant towards Local Shanghainese of course,Presenter Zhou does not have the most standard accent - (comment from Chinese relatives)

I removed the request for deletion (in regards to notability) owing to the fact that ChinesePod has been mentioned on NPR and the Shanghai Morning Post and is ranked highly by Yahoo. It also apparently has in excess of 10,000 downloads a day and is the 3rd most popular podcast in China. Because of the rising status of China, and hence interest in spoken Mandarin, it's likely (although not assured) that the visability and presence of this service will continue to increase as well.--Daveswagon 03:43, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

I cannot agree with you. Chinesepod is a business service, not a academic site. Any commercial sites all offer some free trial contents. Visitors need to pay to get most of services. [Subscription Price]. For 'been mentioned on NPR and the Shanghai Morning Post', in China, if you hope to promote your business, you can bribe a newspaper reporter easily. Generally after a reporter gets $100-200, he will report your business. If you hope to do more promotion, you also need to bribe editors and related people. So 'been mentioned on NPR and the Shanghai Morning Post'. For 'ranked highly by Yahoo', SEO or another online promotion business service can help. For 'has in excess of 10,000 downloads a day', Which authority or neutral statistical agencies can give out the data? In China, there is no such body. I guess most of the description are from the operators for the promotion. For 'the 3rd most popular podcast in China', in my opinion, it is not convincing. In China, the most popular podcast services are related to music. It is the same as in the other countries. Moreover, China's lack of copyright protection, and free music podcast is of course the most popular. BTW, any Chinese people need to learn Chinese through downloading podcast? If only foreign people in China use it, how we can say 'the 3rd most popular podcast in China'. So the article is written only for Advertising and SEO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yesjaneiss (talk • contribs) 10:58, 12 April 2008 (UTC)