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[Review from Radio Times]
Chinese Food Made Easy
Monday 07 July
8:30pm - 9:00pm
BBC2
1/6 - Takeaway Favourites
There's a shock moment in this new cookery show when presenter Ching- He Huang reveals the quantities of fat, sugar and salt in the average Chinese takeaway meal. It's not a pretty sight. In fact, it may put you off the whole idea of takeaways for some time. And that would suit the tirelessly chirpy Ms Huang nicely because she wants to show us how easy it is to create takeaway favourites in our own kitchens. Her healthier versions of chicken chow mein and beef in oyster sauce look fabulous and, yes, dead easy. So easy that we see Britain's women's rowing captain cook them, too, just so we know there's nothing to it. It's all very jolly, and after half an hour with Huang, you'll be itching to throw away that flyer from the Golden Dragon and get to wok.
RT reviewer - David Butcher
I'd like to expose my daughters (7 and 4) to some Chinese to make it easier for them to learn the language later. My idea was to get them some fun TV program or movie that they'd enjoy sitting in front of even if they cannot understand the words.
Can anyone suggest anything suitable?
(They love the Pretty Cure anime, and a Chinese dub would be ideal: I don't suppose anyone knows where I could buy or download such a thing?)
Thanks!
One way to get exposed to natural spoken Chinese is to watch Chinese TV. Many of the shows is texted in Chinese so you can actually both practice your reading and your listening. If you are a newbie the childrens shows is exelent and for more advanced learners the news is very good. There are tons of Chinese soap operas and they are often focusing on the Chinese history. There are a few free channels that you can tune in to if you have satellite equipment at home. One nice channel is PCNE and another one is CCTV4. For CCTV4 you can also look at some of their programs on the net: http://www.cctv-4.com/2007/. CCT9 is an English speaking channel broadcasted form China and accessible in most countries. They have Chinese lessons most weekdays and lots of cultural points. CCTV (Chinese Central TV is also accessible on the net; http://english.cctv.com/. Naturally there is also a Chinese version;-) Some on line content from their shows to view.
There is also many music shows. One nice thing with many of them is that they have subtitles. This makes it easier when you try to get the words from the lyrics.
Hey CPoddies, any good sites where I can watch some Chinese TV online? Doesn't have to be live, but would be nice to watch some shows to at least practice my listening skills. Any ideas?
