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About ECpod.com: ECpod.com (http://www.ECpod.com) is a free website for
members to make friends and to learn English and Chinese by videos. ECpod
stands for "English Chinese Podcast" where our website's video clips are
"Video Podcasted" by our members. While ECpod began as an
English-and-Mandarin-only website, by popular demand ECpod now accept
clips in other Chinese dialects as well (for eg: Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien
and etc). We realized cultural exchange wouldn't be complete without the
inclusion of a rich variety of Chinese dialects which tend to be
characteristic of different parts of Chinese populated-areas. Furthermore,
some dialects will be extinct within one or two generations. Preservation
of Chinese culture and history is nothing if it does not also preserve the
dialects spoken by some of the ancient families of yore.
It's a REALLY REALLY good site....
Heres an article from there site
"When in Rome, why not let the Romans teach you?
"When in Rome, why not let the Romans teach you?
In Huangshan (黄山), southern Anhui province in Eastern China, Fu Shou-Bing
logs on to the computer in the public library near his village. Since
discovering ECpod.com, the retired High School Chemistry teacher has been
logging on almost every day to the English-Chinese teaching website.
Sometimes he cycles the 25 miles home, cooks himself a simple lunch of
rice and stir-fried vegetables with salted fish, often returning once
again to the library and his new hobby in the evening.
ECpod.com boasts an educational website that teaches members
conversational English or Chinese (no "this is an apple" stuff here) via
video clips contributed by other members. After a vetting and often
transcribing process by language tutors commissioned by the site, the
clips are available free of charge in YouTube fashion. The twist? Members
film each other in everyday activities, hoping other members will learn
not just their native tongue, but also cultural innuendos lost in
textbooks and more conventional means of language learning.
"One member filmed himself cooking in his kitchen. We got a few emails
asking what condiments he used," says a bemused Warwick Hau, one of the
site's more public faces. One emailer even wanted to know if she could
achieve the same Chinese stir-fry using ingredients from her regular CR
Vanguard (华润超级) supermarket. "We often forget our every day activities may
not be as mundane to people on the other side of the world," Hau adds.
Another such clip is "loaches" - a Chinese mother of 3 filmed her children
and their friends playing with a bucket of loaches - slippery eel-like
fish the children were picking up and gently squeezing.
Lately the members have also begun to make cross-border friends and
contacts. The ECpal function works much the same way sites like
Facebook.com and MySpace.com work – members can invite each other to view
their clips and make friends. And it has its fair share of juvenile humor
as well. “Farting Competition” features two teenagers and graphic sound
effects. Within a week, the clip had 569 hits and was one of the most
popular videos of the week, likely due to mass-forwarding by the
participants’ schoolmates.
For other members keen to learn more than the fact juvenile humor is
similar everywhere, there are many home videos featuring unlikely little
nuggets of wisdom. “The last thing I learned from the site is why you’ll
never find green caps for sale in China,” says Adam Schiedler one of the
English language contributors to the site. Green caps signify cuckolded
husbands, particularly shameful in China as they are a huge loss of face.
Adam vows not to buy any green headgear for his newfound friends.
The subject matter of the videos often speaks volumes about its
contributors. Members choose their own content and film the clip wherever
they please, some of their efforts drawing attention to rural surroundings
and the quaint insides of little homes otherwise not seen unless you
backpack your way thru the tiny dirt roads and villages along the Chinese
countryside."
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