I’d like to find some good Chinese podcasts. I don’t mean podcasts for studying Chinese, I mean podcasts in Chinese, intended for a Chinese audience. Interesting podcasts. The only problem is I don’t have a lot of time to search and then listen to all those podcasts. So I asked around a bit.
As it turns out, CSL blogger extraordinaire Alaric listens to a few Chinese podcasts. These are the ones he listens to:
- 有一说二 (Roddy also likes this one)
- 反波 (Antiwave)
- Princess Remy
As was pointed out on Chinese Forums as well, Alaric mentioned that the 2005 Chinese Podcast Awards Results are a good place to start looking.
Any other recommendations? Anyone?
There’s lots of RFA podcasts on iTunes. Made in America, but everyone it is intended for the Chinese audience. I think there’s about 9 different shows on there.
April 14th, 2006 at 8:18 amI like 反波 (Antiwave) too. It has some witty stuff every now and then.
April 14th, 2006 at 11:11 amIf you’ve got a good proxy, the VOA does MP3 Chinese-language newscasts. I used to listen to them in the States; they’re fairly free of propaganda, and are a nice mixture of standard Mandarin and tolerable Taiwanese Mandarin.
April 16th, 2006 at 5:22 pmDisclosure, Brendan :) BBC’s Chinese newscasts are decent, too, and unblocked.
AntiWave is good unless they’re trying to be funny, and then it’s just painful - i.e. stay away from the Joke category. 有一说二 sounds like a typical radio talk show minus the girl’s voice. There’s also 老罗语录, technically not a podcast, but there are around 100 mp3s available on both the web and P2P - a 新东方 test instructor goes off on tangents about celebrities and society in general.
April 16th, 2006 at 7:53 pmIt’s a nice ‘radio’ show. The production quality is high, actually mixed better I think than Cpod. Aric needs to take it up a notch. The background music is current, R&B, c-pop, but the caster’s voice still comes thru very crisp and clear. The background music is probably too loud/interfering for many Cpod listeners though. I think it’s a good opportunity to hear ‘interesting’ Chinese with ‘good’ music, not just some stringing on classical Chinese instruments.
http://podcast.kijiji.com.cn/
April 24th, 2006 at 10:22 amDeutchavella (not sure if I spelled that right) has an hour long news broadcast in Chinese that I like listening to. I found it on Itunes
May 7th, 2006 at 1:05 am