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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6590 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 1 of 6 14 March 2013 at 9:13pm | IP Logged |
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First off, I'm not looking for resources that TEACH Mandarin. So no ChinesePod or ChineseLearnOnline or any of that stuff, please. I already speak Mandarin, but my Mando level has been suffering a bit from neglect lately. I keep up the reading by reading "Standard Chinese" with Cantonese pronunciation, but I need some listening practice. With my other languages I have at least one podcast that I genuinely enjoy listening to, but I've never managed to find one in Mandarin. I've made some half-hearted attempts, but the few ones I've found have been pretty dull. The only one I kinda like is the Deutche Welle in Mandarin, but it's very formal and newsspeaky. I want something more talky, more like people actually speak, y'know? Especially science podcasts would be awesome, but I'm open for anything interesting. Anyone know of any?
TL;DR: Tips on podcasts in Mandarin aimed at native speakers, please! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| dcbaok Groupie United States Joined 4490 days ago 46 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 2 of 6 14 March 2013 at 9:25pm | IP Logged |
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Skeptoid recently posted on chinese-forums (I believe it was there I saw it) that they've got Chinese versions of some of their podcasts:
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6590 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 3 of 6 14 March 2013 at 9:31pm | IP Logged |
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That looks pretty interesting! Thanks a lot for the tip!
EDIT: Still pretty dull format, though. One person reading off a formal script in a robotic voice. Edited by Ari on 15 March 2013 at 6:46am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6590 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 4 of 6 19 March 2013 at 8:53pm | IP Logged |
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Oh, come on, can it really be that there are only two half-decent podcasts in Mandarin and both are produced in non-Mandarin speaking countries? I can easily find a dozen quality podcasts in Cantonese, but searching iTunes for Mando podcasts yields little that looks even remotely interesting. I know China is pretty culturally underdeveloped since '49, but surely Taiwan must have a couple of interesting podcasts stashed away somewhere? Anyone?
So bump. Someone ought to know something. Edited by Ari on 19 March 2013 at 8:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5967 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 5 of 6 19 March 2013 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
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Don't know if this is one of those that you don't like, but do a search on iTune podcasts for "黑莓时光". I've run across others but don't recall what they're called. Good luck!
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6590 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 6 of 6 20 March 2013 at 6:56am | IP Logged |
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I'll have a look. In the meantime, here's a vote! Thanks for helping out.
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