Online radio/shows/podcasts for TEENS??

[Strawberries513]

Hi.. I am a 16-year old girl in the intermediate stages of learning Mandarin. I really want to listen to/watch online radio/shows/podcasts etc, but everything that I can find seems too adult-oriented. I will go crazy if I just have to hear about politics, foriegn affairs, etc. I want something more teen-oriented. Any ideas?

[<<恒心>>]

Hi there Strawberries513!

Give Yinhe Tai 银河台 (Milky Way Radio) a try-- this is an online-only aimed at teens and focuses on popular music and culture, fashion, etc. Also featured are serialized book selections (Pianpian Ai Du Shu 偏偏爱读书) and ghost stories/ tales of the supernatural.(Yinhe Meiying 银河影 and Yinhe Jinghun 银河惊魂).

http://www.radio.cn/

Programs are achived for about a week here: http://www.radio.cn/yhtdb/ which makes for easy repeat listening/downloading, etc. If you search around a bit, you can usually find an online version of the book being read, which I did recently for the book "她死在QQ上" (roughly "She Died While Instant Messaging"). That gives an idea of the type of stuff they do...some of the stories tend to be on the pulpy side, but for me that just makes them all the more fun.

Yinhe Tai also has a seperate Xiangsheng 相声 channel here http://www.radio.cn/yhtxsxp/ and a long-form serialized book channel here (mainly older/classical-leaning selections) http://www.radio.cn/yhtcpps/

I hope that helps--enjoy!

[Echoyao]

Hey, I think it would be a little bit hard to find Chinese learning sources only for teens, but we can also avoid those boring topics.

Try www.chinesepod.com, www.ezychinese.com, www.adsotrans.com.

They have various and interesting podcasts/ video shows there.

Hope you'll like them.

[gato]

I was into politics and foreign affairs when I was a teenager -- plus video games and sports.

[Lugubert]

A young girl (25) of Cantonese mother tongue I know finds for example movies at youtube, and songs (don't know where on the Internet) and identifies and translates the Putonghua song lyrics into Swedish (and/or English?) using dictionaries and the Wenlin software (no, I don't get a commission, but I think it' great). She loves it, and I think it must be as fun a useful.

[<<恒心>>]

Strawberries513:

I though of another online station, INET Radio, which is part of CRI. Beyond the popular music they play, they also cover topical issues in a teen-friendly way. One of my favorite programs is 鲜唱片 Xiān Chàngpiàn ("Fresh Records") that is a series of features and artist interviews in a 30-minute format. You get a little bio of the artist, a few songs, and sometimes even an interview. They also have an archive, so sampling what's out there is made very, very easy.

The main station page:

http://gb.cri.cn/inet/index.htm

鲜唱片 Page

http://gb.cri.cn/inet/programs/xcp.htm

鲜唱片 Archive:

http://gb.cri.cn/8201/more/8350/more8350.htm

Enjoy!