audio material for advanced users.

[zozzen]

I'm working on a small plan to polish all my putonghua pronunciation. I thought i could achieve full proficiency within a couple of weeks, but it worked only for everyday conservation. When i talked about some in-depth topic, like literature, history or even instructing staff how to make food (many jargons involved), I'm often confused with the vowels (like x--> shi, chi--> qi) and tones.

Here's the audio clip I picked for my self-training. If you have your favourite, please share it.

http://www.verycd.com/topics/58681/

A famous CCTV programme that have an indepth discussion about Chinese culture and different topics. The downloads are not with transcript, but some transcripts have been published. (e.g. 説慈禧, and a series of lecture by 于丹 )

http://www.verycd.com/topics/45613/

A old magical novel in Taiwan. The story is not really funny, but I'd like to make my vocab more colorful. And there's a script for it.

[heifeng]

If you are looking to polish your putonghua perhaps this thread may be useful to you, at least the Putonghua shuiping ceshi part of it. It contains some discussion about pronunciation polishing resources and langdu links, like this for example.

[L-F-J]

where did you get the script for it?

i found www.mmmppp333.com with tons of chinese content, like novels, short stories, xiangsheng, whatever!

but usually i have to search the web for the transcripts or find the book if i want it.

[Xiao Kui]

thanks for the link l-f-j I'm downloading Wolf Totem right now - well, just 3 chapters for the time being - been wondering what all the hype was abt.

[Xiao Kui]

wow, really poor sound quality on 狼图腾. Are they all that bad?

[L-F-J]

everything i've gotten from that site has been pretty good. i've mostly been listening to old xiangsheng, and the novel 我的人渣生活, which is pretty funny.

[Ag3nt]

http://gloss.lingnet.org/searchResources.aspx

Advanced audio exercises for many languages, including Chinese. Developed by the Defense Language Institute.

[L-F-J]

i've seen that one. but i dont think you can download the files. thats the only drawback. you can only use them online. but they are good.

[Radial]

Thanks for the information on lingnet... this stuff is great...