no Chinglish we're Irish

the Irish Times reports

OnDemand Training (ODT), an Irish company based in Shanghai, is revolutionising language learning using podcasting, which allows you to download audio and video files from the internet and listen to them on your PC or iPod.

ODT's founder, Dubliner Ken Carroll, launched Chinesepod.com in September, a Mandarin Chinese language-learning portal that allows users to download audio lessons as podcasts. Since November, the portal has been in the top five of the world podcast rankings at Yahoo.com boasting a total of 1.2 million downloads. The website gets 12,000-14,000 visits every day.

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