Chinese videos

土豆网 (Potato net?) is probably your best bet. www.tudou.com

Oh oh oh, I think I know what you mean by it being blank... you get to the page listening the lessons of NPCR, but when you click the link, it pops up a little window and it just says "Done" for the status, right? Are you using Firefox? For some reason, even though I love Firefox, has a problem with some embedded playing...don't know why. Use IE to load it.

I wonder if there will ever be a YouTube China.

Good question Bazza. Here's an interesting article about China's video-sharing sites: China's YouTube: Trouble for Beijing Looks like they all may be censored by the government by year's end.

alychic: Watching movies or listening to broadcasts in the language is one of the very best ways to strengthen listening comprehension and understanding of the language. I'd also reccomend * www.tudou.com * since there is so much available. You can also download a free program called "ppstream" which has tons of programming. When you're new in the language I don't recommend watching any historical dramas because the language is usually way too deep and old fashioned. I highly recommend watching only programming set in the modern era. If you need any help in your studies, feel free to contact me through my profile. Xiao Hu

Discovered this site the other day. www.ecpod.com

Bazza, how do you find these things? You are amazing!

I can't really take credit for that one, someone on the forum drew my attention to it.

Youtube Taiwan is also a pretty good source: http://tw.youtube.com/ Hope you're not missing the lovely Chicago winter...it's a wacky one this year:) Welcome to CPod!

In case you don't know a word they are using in the dialogs, the vocabulary spreadsheet/flashcards I made for my classmates for all the NPCR books, you can get them here on my website: http://www.richmahn.com/chinese/NPCR/Flashcards/

If you're a drama lover, check out the Chinese/Taiwanese dramas on Youtube. Often there are English subs, with the original Mandarin audio. I recommend "At The Dolphin Bay" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=jCAYryupVFQ) or "Silence" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=gOtHJOtS6tY). There are others too. Hope this helps!

Rich When I click on your video links nothing is there. Thanks for the flash cards though

Hmm... I guess my links didn't show as links! Maybe the parentheses interfered. Let me try again. "At the Dolphin Bay" http://youtube.com/watch?v=jCAYryupVFQ "Silence" http://youtube.com/watch?v=gOtHJOtS6tY If this doesn't work, you may have to copy and paste. Sorry 'bout that! :- D

Mike, So the link to the VIDEOS is not working, but you could (or couldn't?) get the flashcard? Kind of weird. Even on the page for downloading my Excel flashcard files is the link to the Videos, and I just clicked the link here and on my website and they work. Again, for the flashcard files and link to the site, go here (I will put it without the http and www in hopes it doesn't turn it into a weird CPod link): richmahn.com/chinese/NPCR/Flashcards

Seems to be working just fine ! I'm using NPCR also , thanks for the links and the flash cards !!! Norman

Here are all the videos for the Chinese books we used here at U of Edinburgh, New Practical Chinese Reader 新实用汉语课本： http://www.hanyu.com.cn/En/htm_newlesson/mulu.htm Nicely done videos for ALL the text dialogs. Check it out for some more Chinese learning with the dialog actually filmed at the place of context (bank, store, etc.)