ChinesePod Review

• Speaking
• Grammar
• Vocabulary
• Listening

• At ChinesePod, you learn Mandarin Chinese with more than 1000 audio lessons, each of which is of length 8-17 minutes, on average;
• The learning activity is centered around each lesson:
  Participate in the discussion of each lesson;
  Learn focused vocabulary for each lesson;
  Expand what you learn for each lesson;
  Finally do exercises on what you have learned.
• Each lesson deals with a specific issue, such as seeing a doctor or visiting a museum.

Subscription-based. You can choose 1-month, 6-month, 12-month, 24-month of Basic, Premium, Praxis, or Executive packages.

Price range from $69/year (Basic) to $1,599/year (Executive)

Here is a ChinesePod Review that you might want to look into from one of their paid subscribers. Here is a quote from the above review:

The teaching techniques used by Chinesepod are well thought out and allow students to concentrate on the topics and techniques that are right for them. The default philosophy of the group is grammar-light, but for grammar nerds like me, their is a grammar section on the way.

This is how online teaching should be done - an excellent combination of pedagogy and web engineering, that I can recommend wholeheartedly to anyone wishing to study Chinese or Spanish on their own terms. Two weeks of free premium membership are given to all new users - no strings attached - so it couldn't be easier to find out for yourself whether or not I'm telling the truth.