When I did my last Praxis subscription I got this, plus the extra shows on top. I also got this for FrenchPod and ItalianPod.

Now why would I be interested in frozen content of FrenchPod & ItalianPod? For the same price as 5 new lessons per week as was the case until end of 2008?

My very disappointing experience was that Praxis language does cuts at any point of time to any extent: going from 5 to 3 lessons per week (current SpanishPod status) reducing further to 1 lesson per week (FrenchPod&ItalianPod status from end of May 2009) to zero (just not shutting down the old content on the server and have staff answer new questions should any drop in - current FP&IP status).

Your are entitled to do so according to the subscription contracts you offer.

As I deem this too lopsided for my taste: how do you reassure potential customers that they get what they expect (even if it is not granted in a legally binding way)?

E.g. if you decrease the publishing schedule the duration of the subscription gets prolonged proportionally? I understand that you would struggle to give real money back, but some compensation in kind would only be fair?

What about a clear strategy statement, e.g. that the 3 most essential languages of the world - English, Chinese, Spanish - will always be served as a minimum by 3 new lessons a week?

Is there something similar in Spanish?

How would you express the development of a digital foto = post-processing by some software (e.g. Photoshop, Lightroom, ACDSee) in Spanish?

And you really think this could be a good business model, ensuring loyalty of your customers?

Brilliantly put, anna8!

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What I appreciate on top of that: it can give something to all levels of SpanishPoddies.

I follow more or less regulary the Praxis pods in Chinese, Spanish, French and Italian: my award for outstanding didactics among them definitely goes to SPANISHPOD !

Nice gag to include Marco + the Chinese guy, too, at the end.

À vos/tes souhaits ("for your wishes")

À vos/tes amours ("for your loves")

...no money ;-) ...and I remember only 2 forms, but maybe the Frenchpod team could help here.

German knows only 1 form, same as the 1st Spanish (salud=Gesundheit), but after the 3rd sneeze you are entitled to a wish, like watching una estrella fugaz.

pdf and lesson review worked fine, just not the lesson and the dialog-only.

Fun and a didactical firework - you really do make perfekt use of video to bring your points!

What a delightful difference to just having vocab lists with some moving pictures that add no didactic impact and are not self-explanatory without an additional pdf...

I wish SpanishPod could set the gold standard for teaching videos throughout Praxis Language !

Entonces tengo en mente ahora:

Dix heures, tu m'as laissé
Tout seul du mauvais côté
Dix heures, j'ai pas la clé,
Tombée, tombée...

Una canción pegadiza - a gluey song. En Alemán dicemos "una tijereta".

I started Chinese before a first trip visiting friends in Beijing (who both are master graduates in Sinology). I was just so scared of being illiterate and unable to understand or say anything. I also wanted to know if it might be possible to acquire a "tourist level" of Chinese - I had never met such before, either Sinologists or zero. With the trip I got hooked and soon later discovered Chinesepod and this diverting brain-friendly method of offering learning material.

I stopped going to classroom courses in French & Spanish and picked up podcasts instead. As soon as Praxis started a language I usually switched from competitors' materials - they were never as much fun!

I do not "work" or seriously focus... and some might consider that lamentable. Well I admit to a certain lazyness and I enjoy this luxury that I still do pick up lots of morsels and chunks. Alas I train my listening & comprehension skills mostly - as I do get only singular short work stays abroad there is no immersion and everybody turns to English rather soon, so for actually speaking I probably should focus or simply be more industrious.

My dotted-line boss is Italian and I did quite a bit of Italian long time ago. So now, with my Praxis pass, it is irrestible to enjoy a nice break and feeling of achievement with ItalianPod in contrast to grabbling with an Intermediate lesson of Chinese ;-)

In terms of language beauty I definitely prefer Italian to Spanish - I probably would not do Spanish if it were not so damn useful and widespread.

PraxisPods have another excellent side effect for me: they do bring me in regular touch with real contemporary spoken English, less elaborate than reading books, but so much more lively! I do consult my English-German online-dictionary quite frequently.

By the way - the most attractive male VOICE at Praxis is Amaury's from FrenchPod!

I do get the dialog-only files as well as the lesson reviews: a bit less automatic than desirable, but that is a *non-feature* of iTunes: I can set the podcast catching settings only to "latest", not to "all I have not yet downloaded", so they show up in my feed in gray font, and I need to click an iTunes-button to catch them all.

The subscription settings in my feed personalization within CPod do deliver this grey queue for iTunes, because there the new content is bookmarked via my subscription ticks.

Strangely enough this did not work again for SPod after a day of perfect performance. Nor does it on FPod.

But I find that my subscription ticks in my webpage settings ("customize your feed - STEP1") are not effective: there are new lessons of the kind I ticked, but still they offer the button "bookmark this lesson" when I visit the page (see this morning for FPod - Voulez-vous chanter avec moi). Before and on the days when it works (or on CPod now) I always find the button "mark as studied", because the lesson has been auto-bookmarked thanks to my subscription ticks.

I do suspect the bug there.

(For Internet Browser I use a Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14).

Thanks,

Cornelia

This morning it did not work: Upper Intermediate - Iron these Clothes was not boomarked again, so it was missing in my feed. Did somebody undo your recent bug-fix?

The behaviour is now different across Praxis: CPod worked, FPod had Newbie - Scary Noise auto-bookmarked, but it i still missing in my iTunes-feed.

Are your efforts technically limited to SPod or do all PRaxis sites benefit from them?

Chao, Corneliaa

yes, this morning all worked well, the feeds have been filled without manual intervention.

Thank you for this fix - it is a real convenience !

Chao, Cornelia

I would love to get the old functionality back - that my subscriptions really work - supposedly as designed.

Another glitch, also consistent across all Praxis language sites:  after refreshing the page it says  "done" but shows an empty white page. A 2nd refresh usually works.

Thanks for taking care of these bugs!