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I have been partaking of JapanesePod101′s free podcasts lately, but I would like to know a more organised method of using them.
As it is, they seem to be randomly arranged with beginner and advanced lessons mixed up. I’m looking for their upper-beginner to lower-intermediate lessons but can only ever find a few at a time. How does everyone here use their podcasts to get maximum benefit from them?
The free podcasts are designed to be like that. That way, you’ll sign up in order to get what you need.
What a friend of mine did, however, (and what I’d probably do if JPod’s presentation was more to my tastes) was to sign up for the free premium account taster with an old/rarely used email address and then just mass-download each season one by one. I’d imagine it’d take a while, and be mind-numbing as heck, but if you’re not interested in paying for a subscription, it’s the only other way to get your hands on the complete courses.
If all you want is the audio, that’s all free with a basic account. The additional stuff costs money (free for a short trial period). You do have to go to the site still though and go through them on by one and download. Last time I checked (a long time ago) there was no single page with links to all the content.
I wouldn’t bother with pod101 – i was signed up for a while and it’s all pretty crap. They’ve stopped updating lessons (not a big deal as there are thousands) however it seems like they just tend to throw things in that arn’t really that correct.. Like just using words and twisting sentences that wouldn’t naturally be there.
I would reccomend Rosetta Stone for vocab over pod101 anyday.. at least you get pictures! ha
I wouldn’t bother with pod101 – i was signed up for a while and it’s all pretty crap. They’ve stopped updating lessons (not a big deal as there are thousands) however it seems like they just tend to throw things in that arn’t really that correct.. Like just using words and twisting sentences that wouldn’t naturally be there.
I disagree. I only have Intermediate to upper Intermediate japanesepod101 podcasts and I feel like I owe lots of significant trivia from just learning from japanesepod101.
When you stop using your free trial of jpod101, *boy* do they email you with offers relentlessly! :P
@ Michael
Haha I know what you mean. I made a free account for Japanesepod101 as well as Chinesepod. I don’t think the two are run by the same company but they both email you like crazy to get you to pay for a membership. If Jpod offered a lifetime membership like TextFugu do, I may well have bought it.
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No need for using your own email for such things ^^Thanks Mark. Will look into that. It wasn’t so much the content of the emails were spam from Jpod and Chinesepod. It was just the amount of emails they sent a day. I’m not keen on their agressive tactics to try and get you to pay for a membership. If Jpod had offered a lifetime membership I probably would of bought it a) for the value and b) to stop the amount of emails they were sending. I’m not keen on a monthly membership as I’m not sure when I plan to use it and don’t really want to feel like I’m wasting money.
You could always just click “Remove me from the JapanesePod101.com mailing list.” at the bottom of the emails they send…
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