Listening Materials

• Voice Web (By Beijing Infoquick Sinovoice Speech Technology Corp.) The web speech synthesis program produces voices in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean languages. The sound quality is close to natural speech. Date: 2001-2004
• A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (Volume 2) (By University of British Columia) Audio files for the textbook A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (wma, mp3). Date: 2004
• A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (Volume 1) (By University of British Columbia) Audio files for the textbook A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (wma, mp3). Date: 2004
• Chinese Listening (By ChineseListening.com) Chinese listening materials. Date: 2008
• Chinese Recordings (By Unknown) Voice recordings of Chinese words and sentences of different categories. Users can also record their own voices. Date: Unknown
• Chinese Video Exercises (By Hu, Mingliang) Audio and video clips followed by online exercises. Good listening materials for intermediate and advanced students. Date: None
• Chinoesfera (By Mundoesfera.Com) A podcasting site to learn Chinese for Spanish speakers. Date: 2006
• CSLPOD 汉语第二语言播客社区 (By clspod.com) A podcasting site for Chinese learning. Date: Unknown
• Cultural Interviews with Chinese-Speaking Professionals (By Orlando Kelm, et al.) A collection of video clips in which Chinese-speaking professionals discuss cultural issues that are of interest to North Americans or Chinese learners at a more advanced level. The video clips provide practical cultural information about business topics, vocabulary in areas within a professional setting and multiple examples of natural speech, illustrating the way that speakers really talk. Date: 2007
• iMandarinPod.com (By Center of Chinese Educational Development) Podcasting for Chinese learners (intermediate) in Chinese. Date: 2007
• Integrated Chinese Audio (By University of Rhode Island Virtual Language Lab) Chapter 1-11 audio files (mp3) Date: None
• Learn Chinese with Free Podcasts (By ChinesePod.com) This is a wonderful podcasting program developed by Ken Carroll, Jenny Zhu and Aric S. Queen in Shanghai, China. It provides programs of learning Chinese at beginning and intermediate levels. Date: 2005-2008
• Learn Easy Mandarin (By Unknown) Video clips for Lesson 1-18 of Pimsleur Mandarin Course with transcriptions. Date: 2008
• Learn to speak Cinese language with audios online (By specialchinese.com) This web site provides some Chinese texts for listening and reading. Date: 2007
• Learning through listening 聼故事學成語 (By Wellesley College) Created by Prof. Ma Jing-Heng and her associates. Contains 15 Chinese fables with sound files and online exercises. Good for intermediate and advanced students. Date: 1999
• Loquella (By Loquella.com) Loquella offers Mandarin Chinese lessons based on the method and material developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These lessons allow students to learn Mandarin Chinese online as well as on their MP3 player. Date: 2008
• Mandarin Chinese with Serge Melnyk (By Serge Melnyk) Podcasting of Mandarin Chinese lessons. Date: None
• MyChineseClass (By MyChineseClass) Online learning materials for beginners and intermediate learners. Learning Chinese idioms. Date: 2005
• Survival Chinese Lessons. (By ChineseForTravel.com) Free podcasting lessons for travelers. Mp3 files can be downloaded. Date: 2007
• The Artist: a one-act play (By Moran, Patrick) Sound recording of a one-act play for listening. Good for intermediate and advanced students. Date: None
• Ting 听- Chinese English Center (By Shea, Marilyn) A large collection of Chinese words and sentences in audio files. Good for listening. Date: 1999-2004
• Travel in China (By EzyChinese) A collection of video clips about travel in China provided in the web site of EzyChinese.com. Date: 2006-2008
• Watch to Learn Chinese (By Watch to Learn Chinese.com) Video clips collected from Youtube for Chinese learning. Categorized into three levels: beginner, intermediate and advance. Games are also available. Date: 2008
• WCETV 銀視網 (By WCETV.com) A collection of TV stations. Date: None
• YouTube (By youtube.com) You can find many video clips for learning Chinese. Type in a keyword like \'learn Chinese\', \'Mandarin Chinese\', \'Learning Chinese\', etc. to search. Date: None
• 文学院汉语文学精品专业影视资料 (By Guangxi Shifan Daxue 广西师范大学文学院汉语言文学精品专业) Movies in rm format for online viewing and downloading. The collection includes Chinese (classical and modern) and foreign movies. Some examples are 茶馆、阿Q正传、人生、活着、野火春风斗古城、杜十娘、孔雀东南飞、钢铁是怎样炼成的、魂断蓝桥等。 Date: 2005-2006