Help! Need pinyin karaoke advice.

wei1xiao4
August 27, 2007, 06:57 PM posted in General Discussion
My son's mandarin teacher in the US is looking for pop music karaoke to use in her class this year.  It would be best if it had pinyin as well as characters.  Does anyone know where to obtain this?  She's in the US, but I could send it from Hong Kong if it is not available in the US.  Who are today's popular artists that teenagers would enjoy listening to and learning from?  I see that YouTube has some chinese karaoke.  Are there other websites that have chinese karoke with pinyin?  Thanks for your help.
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excuter
August 27, 2007, 07:15 PM

try to google it, maybe you find what your looking for. :-)

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bazza
August 27, 2007, 09:07 PM

Most song lyrics are usually in characters only and can usually be found using www.baidu.com You can use this program to convert characters to pinyin pretty accurately: http://www.mandarintools.com/dimsum.html

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bazza
August 27, 2007, 09:15 PM

Just discovered these from the links on that dimsum: http://ehaton.blogspot.com/ They look pretty cool. :)

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wei1xiao4
August 28, 2007, 12:26 AM

Bazza, I am always amazed at the sites you find!

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keqing
September 06, 2007, 11:55 AM

hey I found some the other day on the website... www.chinese-tools.com/songs maybe try without the songs... but it has songs I like in characters and pinyin with the video clip as well... english translation also available.. have fun

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tianfeng
September 07, 2007, 01:13 AM

I always found that translating the lyrics to pinyin was another fun way to get better at character recognition.