Englishpod (Chinesepod languages reversed)

[pprendeville]

Was on way to capital airport in Beijing last week and there was a radio station on in the car that was teaching some simple English sentences (I want the yellow bag, pass me the bag etc). I found this a great way of learning Chinese as the presenter was explaining everything in Chinese which was a bit like Chinesepod but with the languages reversed. Can anyone recommend similar content or a radio station that has this feature? 

[imron]

Did you already check out EnglishPod (made by the same folks as ChinesePod) and decide it wasn't suitable?

[edelweis]

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I imagine they have other programs too, but each time I've tried it it was English lesson time.

also:

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[pprendeville]

They're not teaching English throughthe medium of Chinese on that EnglishPod on the sample online.

Tried that station but it's beyond me at this point in time. Cheers though.

[anonymoose]

I imagine they have other programs too

Yes. I just tuned in to a japanese programme. Seems like a good station.

[ccyjie]

I recommend Japanesepod101 and ESLPod. Excellent podcasts in English.

[edelweis]

BBC 起步英语

click on a topic in the 3 columns at the bottom, then select "Part 2" and "Download a 3-minute lesson".

The first lessons are mostly in Chinese, the ratio gradually reverses...

They have other, more advanced lessons on English slang and so on in the other sections of the website, but of course those are mainly in English.

It also struck me that what you want might actually be the "Personal welfare" optional module of the FSI tapes.

Optional module tapes do not have grammar drills, instead they have simple lists of vocabulary and sentences said in English then in Chinese. At the end of each part there are some dialogues in Chinese that use the vocabulary and sentences from the lists.

[Manuel]

I've even watched some videos on Youku of a Chinese lady who teaches Korean--in Chinese--and learnt quite a lot of Chinese (and a bit of Korean). I re-play the video many times and each time around I pick up on more and more detail (e.g. new words, sentence structure). In my experience with language learning I find that courses that are designed specifically to teach you the language usually are not as effective as, say, a cooking course taught in the language you originally wanted to learn, at least for improving your verbal skills and fluency. Of course you are going to have to sit down and study hanzi at some point, and then read whatever you feel like reading, not for the purpose of learning the language but because you are genuinely interested in what you are reading.

In other words, treat the language as a tool not a goal. So yeah for someone who can already speak some Chinese EnglishPod would be an excellent learning resource, possibly more so than ChinesePod.

Many of my observations agree with Stephen Krashen's Input Hypothesis which describes the process of second-language acquisition in a way that makes a lot of sense. Also worth reading are the these Wikipedia articles on Second-language aquisition and the concept of Universal Grammar.