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July 2007

A Shanghai company has pioneered a podcast-powered twist to learning Chinese

What do you get when you put together an Irishman, a Shanghainese and the internet? It may sound like the start of a bad joke, but that’s the story of Chinesepod, one of the world’s most popular podcasts.

When Chinesepod , which is recorded in Shanghai, first started, Irishman Ken Carroll and Shanghai native Jenny Zhu hosted almost all the shows. Each show was a mini-Chinese lesson, comprising a dialog and vocabulary ...

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