Learn Chinese Podcast by Sun Yat-Sen University

There are many podcasts available for people to learn Chinese. I found this is a very good one for beginners: Dui4 Wai4 Han4 Yu3, by Sun Yat-Sen University. It is available in iTunes U. For example this dialog is about ordering food in a MacDonld-like restaurant.

Note: the link does not work in Safari, nor in Chrome. but it opens a fee in Firefox.

I like this podcast. Each dialog is very short, less than 1 minutes. The content is very simple, very good for beginners. I watched a few. Many dialogs have very simple and useful phrases. I think that this podcast is very good complementary resource for my class. The podcast program actually has two sets. One is mainly on Chinese culture with dialogs in English, and another set has dialogs in Chinese with Pin Yin. Here is a snapshot of two sets in iTunes:



To find the podcast, go to iTunes Store. Then search for 对外汉语, just copy the paste those four characters. In Pin Yin, they are dui4 wai4 han4 yu3.

Comtemporary Chinese Audio Clips

Contemporary Chinese is a text book with audio CDs for student to learn Chinese.

Here are some clips from Contemporary Chinese Audio CD 1:

• Lesson 4
• Lesson 5
• Lesson 6
• Lesson 7
• Lesson 8

Notes:
Right click on above links to save mp3 file to your local computer.

The mp3 clip files are in my dropbox public shared area. There is a limit to put files there and I may delete them. The service may not be available as well. Therefore, you may not be able to open them if either case is true.