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wushijiao -
I was planning to update this post, and I saw muyongshi had a similar question, so here it goes:
You can find these podacts on iTunes:
-NHK Chinese (10 minute radio news, focusing on Japan and China, but also other parts of Asia.
This is produced by the Japanese government)
-SBS Mandarin (news and other show of 10-30 minutes, focusing on the whole world, but especially
Australia and China. Made by Australia)
-德国之声 (focusing on Germany, Europe and China).
All of the above are great resources. I listen to every episode.
I was able to get the US's Radio Free Asia for a day or two before the authorities caught on. I'm
sure it's only a matter of days before they ban the above as well.
Also, as far as advanced/intermediate listening, I also listen to Chinese Pod, which I think is
great because they are good at analyzing grammar points, and the vocab they introduce (especially
the slang) is something that you don't find in the newscasts. The dialogues are really well made,
I think. I have also just started.listening to CSL Pod, and I think it is also a good resource for
people looking to understand the news in Chinese.
I've searched iTunes pretty carefully, and I can't seem to find much more than that.
Since early March, I've listened to all the NEWS茶座's. It's a the most entertaining all around
"news/talk" program that I've found. The easiest way to get that is at their website (just click
on the blue icon, download it, and iTunes will convert it to podcast form):
Anyway, I can't overstate how helpfull listening to these podcasts has been to improving my
listening, and by extension, my vocab and speaking. I wish I would have got on the podcast
bandwagon years ago.
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imron -
Threads merged. No point discussing this in two places.
dittonamed -
Not exactly a podcast, but endless semi-funny listening nonetheless
roddy -
德国之声, mentioned by wushijiao above, is great - over two and a half hours of high-quality
news and content every day, balanced coverage, and funny German music as well. Been listening for
a couple of weeks on and off, highly recommended.
muyongshi -
Quote:
I was able to get the US's Radio Free Asia for a day or two before the authorities caught on. I'm
sure it's only a matter of days before they ban the above as well.
I am able to get it through iTunes no problem.
I recommend the CSL Pod. There are pretty good and speak REALLY clearly and a bit too slow.
I don't know if it is normally this way but it seems that the NHK Chinese has just been rambling
on and on about the atomic bomb from world war 2 and I am getting tired of it. I just started
listening to these. I know that Japanese have a tendency to always talk about those type of
political things....my question is do they do a lot of stuff like this because they are produced
by the government?
wushijiao -
Actually, Abe's Defense Minister had to resign because he said that the atomic bombs were a factor
in ending the war, and by extension, condoning the bombing, which some people in the Japanese
public disagreed with. So, I think NHK was reporting on it because it was the biggest story in
Japan.
I do think that NHK isn't nearly as good as 德国之声. 德国之声 is as interesting as NPR or
the BBC. They report on stories from the Hong Kong press, on Europe, Germany, on popular music,
science. They also have one question per day (i.e. "Will China's buying of lots of European wood
resources threaten European forrests?") then people respond by sending text messages for the next
day's show. That's good because it gives the shows some continuity from day to day. Nonetheless,
NHK has some good points. They reported a lot on the North Korean issue, and there have been
fairly important breakthroughs in American-North Korean relations in recent weeks. I haven't seen
much about those reports in the mainsteam US press. It just goes to show that it is always good to
get the news from many different sources.
imron -
Have the SBS broadcasts been working for you recently? The links don't seem to be valid for me on
any of the last 10-15 podcasts.
muyongshi -
Quote:
Have the SBS broadcasts been working for you recently? The links don't seem to be valid for me on
any of the last 10-15 podcasts.
Yah it doesn't work for me other but I tried it through my VPN and it still doesn't work. I think
it might be something on there server side.
wushijiao -
Quote:
Have the SBS broadcasts been working for you recently?
No, I can't get it either, and since Muyongshi can get Radio Free Asia (which I am pretty sure is
banned now), it seems that it must be a problem on their end. Radio Free Asia tries to load for
about 20 seconds, and then times out. That same thing happened with other "bad" websites, like
some of the Tibetan ones. SBS, in contrast, only tries for about 5 seconds, and then times out. I
don't know.
imron -
It all seems fine now for me. If you're using iTunes, make sure you delete any existing podcasts
that are displayed but not downloaded, then refresh the list.
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