Rick, I'm having the same problem that Shari talked about. You've also emailed me about not being able to play videos. Well, I can play them - but it takes lots of patience. It usually takes me 20 minutes or more to see a 5 minute video - and several times it has just quit playing and nothing will persuade it to start again.

Right now I'm on Lesson 10, currently on part 5. I've tried starting the video, then pausing to let buffering finish, but that doesn't help. It will play a few words, then stop for many seconds, play another second or two - or sometimes it plays half a minute before stopping again. Very frustrating. In fact, I'm so glad that you have pretty much a transcript of your lessons under the player, because some of the videos I've just given up trying to play - but I can read the transcript and do what it says.

I'm concerned about the more advanced videos, though, because I know I'll want to see those in their entirety.

I'm watching in Firefox. I tried both Chrome and IE, and neither of those worked at all. I have a pretty fast wireless connection (Clearwire) and don't have trouble watching Hulu and shows on the PBS site.

Thanks so much for all the time you've put into these - I'm learning so much!

Pam