Anywhere to get Mandarin audio?

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Reply #1 - 2009 May 04, 4:45 am
Tobberoth Member
From: Sweden Registered: 2008-08-25 Posts: 3364

I've started to study some Mandarin since Japanese can feel stale at times and a bit of Mandarin freshes things up. I've found good text books and such online, but my main problem is hearing and pronunciation, I feel it's holding back my learning. (Why learn tons of words when I can't hear the tones and consonants properly?)

Thus, I would like to find Mandarin audio so I can listen to lots of Mandarin and get used to it. I know about Chinesepod.com but I'm looking for longer continuous mandarin speech. Radio, Podcasts etc. The level isn't all that important since I'm just going for the passive skill of hearing tones etc, but the easier the better.

Reply #2 - 2009 May 04, 4:52 am
travis Member
Registered: 2008-08-11 Posts: 178

Have you tried sopcast. Sort of like keyholeTV but just TV in general, but there's lots of Chinese channels.

Reply #3 - 2009 May 04, 4:55 am
Rael89 Member
From: new york Registered: 2008-07-26 Posts: 103

I did a quick search on youtube. You could use this playlist of chinese TV adverts:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p … 1A253AABF2

This playlist makes me think it would be an interesting idea to try making a fake TV listing by adding commercials in between parts of a movie or TV episodes as part of a youtube playlist. could be fun

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Reply #4 - 2009 May 04, 5:32 am
Tobberoth Member
From: Sweden Registered: 2008-08-25 Posts: 3364

Thanks for the recommendations! Keep them comming.

I downloaded sopcast and got the Shanghai News Channel to work. I'm hoping they are talking Mandarin and not Shanghainese, but it sounds like Mandarin so great.

Reply #5 - 2009 May 04, 6:05 am
travis Member
Registered: 2008-08-11 Posts: 178

All the CCTV channels are the national broadcaster, there's a list of what channels what on the wikipedia entry. Also their homepage has lots of video clips, don't know if the text matches the audio though.

EDIT: Also TVU, another streaming video site from China, might have more channels on it.

Last edited by travis (2009 May 04, 6:32 am)

Reply #6 - 2009 May 04, 6:14 am
Rael89 Member
From: new york Registered: 2008-07-26 Posts: 103

I almost forgot about this site:

http://wwitv.com/portal.htm

Pretty good for watching TV from most places.

Reply #7 - 2009 May 04, 12:17 pm
mafried Member
Registered: 2006-06-24 Posts: 766

My gf spends her off-time watching various TV shows posted by "fengshuimaster0" on youtube.  Taiwanese talk shows and stuff like that, probably a great resource for learning.  The good thing about Chinese TV is that they subtitle everything, and the subtitles though not exact are more useful for learning than in Japanese..

Reply #8 - 2009 May 11, 9:55 pm
kazelee Rater Mode
From: ohlrite Registered: 2008-06-18 Posts: 2132 Website

Have you tried TVants? It has many channels in many languages. Many of them are Chinese so perhaps Mandarin will Turn up.

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