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Links to good media for learning Mandarin - TheVinster - 2010-03-29

I'm studying Japanese, but a Chinese girl I met recommended a song to me. I like it, so I'll just pass it on. It's really catchy to me.




Links to good media for learning Mandarin - tcsrt - 2010-07-06

Is Tudou loading videos for anyone else?

It's just stopped working for me.

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - HerrPetersen - 2010-07-20

In the search for movies which I can subs2srs I found lots of dubbed movies. Go to verycd.com and search for "dualaudio".

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - intermu - 2010-09-28

Anyone got any good recommendations for more good Mandarin music? Thanks to the OP, I never thought punk sounds good.

Maybe post-rockish stuff or alternative stuff in Mandarin? Preferably they have lyrics but anything is fine.

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - zer0range - 2010-10-01

Quote:Maybe post-rockish stuff or alternative stuff in Mandarin? Preferably they have lyrics but anything is fine.
新裤子 (New Pants) are pretty awesome.

Other than that you could try 反光镜. I'm not a big fan, but they're the closest thing out there.

The annoying thing about studying Mandarin is that there is almost no good music. You will have much more luck looking for rap, although it's still not that great. (哈狗帮 and 蛋堡.)

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - vinniram - 2010-10-01

TheVinster Wrote:I'm studying Japanese, but a Chinese girl I met recommended a song to me. I like it, so I'll just pass it on. It's really catchy to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHEOfXOqp1Y
I really like this song. Thanks for sharing it.

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - Mesqueeb - 2010-10-02

For Japanese there was this really fun PODCAST: marimoeo. ^^
is there something similar in Mandarin??

fun short podcasts

thanks!

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - zer0range - 2010-10-02

http://princessremy.net/blog/ 黑米公主

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - pjdekl - 2011-01-02

Ella Niamh Wrote:Any links to Mando news with Chinese subitles please??
These are not serious news, but very funny:
http://www.chinasmack.com/

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - pjdekl - 2011-01-02

A huge collection of bad words:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese_profanity
List of English words of Chinese origin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Chinese_origin

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - gdaxeman - 2011-01-30

I've finally began to find artists that sing in Mandarin that I like! It's pop and pop rock, not rock and rap unlike most of the other recommendations in this thread; here it is:

当秋天遇上秋天 完整版 -- 梁心颐
http://www.yinyuetai.com/video/125920

This one is nice too, especially the part where the woman sings (yeah, I really like female vocals):
破晓 -- 南拳妈妈
http://www.yinyuetai.com/video/6397

I thought I would never find any, heh. I'll be honest that it's not exactly the type of music I like the most — which would be something more like Pahinta Tänään by Indica or Nemuri by Onmyo-Za (the chorus is sooo catchy) — but I actually liked these Mandarin songs and it made me more motivated to keep looking for more, so I'll not be just listening to songs in other languages.

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - gyuujuice - 2011-01-30

This guy has been combining Jay CHou with WoW. Interesting combination.



[EDIT] I seem to kill threads. Sad

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - gdaxeman - 2011-02-16

gyuujuice Wrote:[EDIT] I seem to kill threads. Sad
This is what you do to threads:



(So off-topic, hah.)

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - zer0range - 2011-02-17


- A cartoon parodying some of the annoyances of living in Nanjing (南京话)


- An angry woman arguing with her daughter in law on the streets of Beijing.


- Little human interest piece on a Chinese adult movie star. (Safe for work.)

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - intermu - 2011-02-23

I'll just be sharing this for people interested in non-mainstream music

http://bitetone.com/

Hongkong-based site on Chinese/HK/Taiwanese bands.

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - gdaxeman - 2011-07-13

Now that's what I'm talking about — a Melodic Power Metal band with female vocals in Mandarin!
Seraphim (六翼天使) -最終的回憶 (Last Memory)
Seraphim (六翼天使) - 復活 (Resurrect)
===
About the band
The band is from Taiwan, and it seems every album released by them has both English and Mandarin versions. The tracks range from slow to very fast, as is the norm for most Power Metal albums. Here's the Metal Archives page with info and lyrics: Metal Archives - Seraphim.

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - elhnad - 2011-10-24

gdaxeman,

Lara and her band are pretty good (Lara's hot) although I've never loaded up on them before.
They were put together/produced I think by Jay Chou.

AN BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CPOP
What got me interested in Chinese music were JAY CHOU's faster paced catchy songs, but as I started trying to sing along with them, I developed a deep appreciation of the slow songs and think a lot of the faster ones are not so good. A variety of songs (not totally representative of his style, but some of my favorite ones


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gZIckG0EIM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0V-aVtlQwM



You might like these but I'm more of a fan of male vocals
KHALIL FONG (best male vocals IMO, heavily influenced by Michael Jackson)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlBDUIp_L8&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrKH-OiDMRU

WANG LEE HOM (grew up in my hometown of Rochester, NY, has dabbled in many various styles)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPH7Fp2KRd4&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RD4eRjRRlg&feature=related



HOU XIAN (should be more popular, style is similar to Jay)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVMOiHfXjZ0&feature=related



ANSON HU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7jKFWryFsE&feature=related


duet

most famous song of his


GARY CAO (havent listened to him much but i LOVE this duet)



JJ LIN also pretty famous

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - gdaxeman - 2011-10-29

Fairyland in Reality (F.I.R.), a rock/pop band with female vocals from Taiwan. Some of my favorite songs:

• Find my Way (from 讓我們一起微笑吧, 2009)
• 刺鳥 (from 無限, 2005)
• 千年之戀 (from 無限, 2005)

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Links to good media for learning Mandarin - howtwosavealif3 - 2011-10-29

chinese music:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PB1BLtHXL0

<--- LOVE THIS SONG

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - aphasiac - 2012-01-29

昆蟲白 (insecteens). They're from Taiwan and sound like Sonic Youth:




Links to good media for learning Mandarin - idontknowkungfu - 2012-09-01

Motherfucking Cui Jian (崔健)!
Fake Monk:

Nothing To My Name:

Fly:

A Piece of Red Cloth:

Greenhouse Girl:

YouTube playlist of an album: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL48F6277D8AD2BF8F
live videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/osieriver/videos?sort=da&flow=list&view=0

And Wu Bai, who's good but not nearly as good.
some retro awesomeness:

some blues rock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyADCXiytlM
this video has lots of dancing women:

a thorough playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9961991597254F92

Cui Jian is Korean, and Wu Bai is Taiwanese. I don't know why foreigners make better Chinese music than natives.

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - supanova - 2012-09-04

FluentFlix is a website which will show you a video (commercial, news, songs, many different categories) and shows the translations/pinyin. As you go along, you can choose specific words to add to your vocabulary. Videos use Youtube.

http://www.fluentflix.com/

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - elhnad - 2012-09-21

i love this fluentflix site, can't wait til it's fully released and the bugs are sorted out

Links to good media for learning Mandarin - zer0range - 2012-09-22

idontknowkungfu Wrote:Cui Jian is Korean, and Wu Bai is Taiwanese. I don't know why foreigners make better Chinese music than natives.
Thanks for the recommendations, but for the record, although his parents are 朝鲜族, 崔健 is Chinese and is a native-speaker. http://baike.baidu.com/view/23312.htm

Also do you really consider Taiwanese non-native speakers of Chinese?

Here's a funny clip I share a lot: http://youtu.be/WIjR_kgJ0t0