From what I understand there is some kind of cooperation between chinesepod and skritter, and that there should be some kind of integration function?

There is supposed to be some way to add words from chinesepod to skritter, but I cant find the button, and please please please tell me there is a button to autoadd all words from your chinesepod wordlist, autocreating a new vocablist with the same name as the label-name of your words list...please please please.

Dont tell me I have to first download the words from chinese pod and reupload them to skritter, because in that case, I dont really see where the "integration" part" is.

I dont know where to ask this, so I will ask both at skritter and Chinesepod. Twice the chance of getting a good answer^^
Thanks!

On the Vocab Lists page, at the bottom, there should be an option to sign into ChinesePod. From there you'll have access to all ChinesePod lesson lists, as well as all your personally created ChinesePod label lists. I think you have to be a premium ChinesePod subscriber, though.

The other integration is that there's the Skritter Lite widget embedded into ChinesePod for premium subscribers there, but it is pretty old and doesn't do the SRS.

Ok, found it! Thanks a lot!

And about outdated...I find the whole chinesepod experience very outdated. How about some tabs, pop-down menus etc already? Gives me flashbacks of Internet explorer 1.0 in 1995 :/

You mean the ChinesePod website? Despite their occasional dashboard upgrades, I don't think they've had a *serious* revision since I started using the site in 2007. Still, it provides what I'm looking for there - transcripts and expansion sentences (and now grammar examples) for each lesson. That suits my use fine, which is just studying whatever lesson is at the top of my list everyday (generated from my selected levels). I can see how that might disappoint a power user, but for your average user I think it's hitting its target functionality.

I would, however, like if they designed Qing Wen lesson pages such that they also had a Vocab section, which would make their integration with Skritter easier... their forums also are inconvenient enough that I just avoid using them. But with Skritter, Chinese-forums, Pop Up Chinese, etc etc etc no single site has to be the "be all and end all".

Has Chinesepod really been around since 1997?! I thought they only started in 2005. I've listened to some of the podcasts from that year and they sound very raw, like they were definitely just getting started then.

@Icebear
Sure, it provides most of the things you need to learn Chinese, but imho they have to do something about the layout.
To make a comparison, porridge fills the nutritional needs of most people, but it tastes/looks like crap.

The forums (community) is a joke. Its hard to navigate, because you cant get an overview. The design is confusing. There is no way to do even the most basic stuff like editing your posts etc.
And the way you have to go through several pages to get where you want to go, instead of just having popdown mouseover menus for example, makes it just harder to navigate. It makes you feel that they dont really give a crap. And then you have the ads with discounts for whatever taking up 30% of the screen. I mean, would it really be THAT hard for their webdesigner or whatever to just update the site a little? They wouldnt have to change any of the content, just the layout.

Sorry I meant 2007.

@ DaXia
I agree about the design, but I don't really care. They could continue the site as-is indefinitely (i.e. new content daily, same awkward layout) and I wouldn't have much to gripe about. I get my money's worth from it as is.

I know what you mean, Chinese Pod is chaos on every level and every feature.