iTunes U: Basic Chinese

The Open University of Hong Kong provides a serials of classes on iTunes U, 9 items up to today. The following is a snap-shot of the podcast in iTunes:



To find the podcast, search for "The Open University of Hong Kong" or "Basic Chinese 1" in iTunes.

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.