Excellent podcast. Really well done courses which will make your chinese improve a lot. however, you have to pay to get full access to transcripts and exercises and I waste much time searching for translations in a dictionary just to find out what a particular character looks like. This cours is (if you don't pay the full version obviously) not enough to work your Chinese because you won't be able to read and write. It would be good if the transcripts and exercises were free for the 50 firsts lessons. It remains a really good podcast that one who is just a tiny bit interested in modern Chinese should definitely have. Congratulation!

I try to study Chinese since 2006. I have grammars, dictionaries, pictionaries, textbooks, chinese pod, a live teacher in Shanghai and Melnyk. None of them could do my job on its own since my memory (at 55) loses power. Melnyk is not as funny, natural and easygoing as the living langauge Chinese Pod since Serge sounds more like an old style severe teacher in a village school with quiet kids - arms crossed. But sometimes -as a student- you need these formal stiff upperlips too. At least I do.