Popup Chinese is a new Danwei partner.
It’s a language learning website that provides daily podcasts, training for the HSK tests for foreigners’ Chinese ability, and manually annotated Chinese texts that display Chinese characters pronunciation and meaning when you mouse over them.
The site provides materials for absolute beginners, but also intermediate and advanced lessons which use contemporary Chinese film, music and literature as teaching tools.
In addition to its slate of free podcasts, Popup Chinese sells premium subscriptions that provides access to online HSK test preparation materials, transcripts of all lessons and tests, custom learning feeds and the ability to personalize the site so it can be used in simplified or traditional Chinese, or even pinyin.
If you click through to Popup Chinese from Danwei and buy a premium subscription, this website will get a chunk of change.
Popup Chinese also offers companies packages that include private and custom-made lessons for use in internal corporate training. Interested parties should contact Echo by email at service@popupchinese.com.
But more interesting than corporate training is the Popup Chinese annotations of the first chapter of the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦) by Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹): part one, part two.