Chinese pod

Chinesepod is a place where Chinese learners can subscribe and get a daily Chinese lesson. I clicked on a couple of lessons and it seems to be free, though my colleague told me that now they start charging money for it. There is one hostess, who sounds like a native speaker of Chinese and one host, who is most certainly a native speaker of English.
I would recommend it to my husband because I think it really suits his learning style, in other words, old fashioned. Every lesson is presented in a linear fashion: first two hosts will introduce the topic, and then there is a dialog, read three times. After which, each sentence is translated and explained and then each word is explained. In the end the dialog will be played another three times. However, I do like one feature of it: socialcultural explanation of the expressions. They will explain whether a certain expression is used for only a certain gender, age, or social class group or in a certain occasion. Sometimes, even though the dialog sounds very contrived, the hostess or the host will explain: "Oh, that's not really how we say it." or something like that. I also like the fact that translations given by the host is very nice. He would first give a literal translation, then variations of it, and then how Americans express it. I actually think it's a good English learning resource.

One more feature I like this place is that, up to today, it has 614 lessons already categorized into different learning levels. I think the second level: elementary will really benefit my husband.