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I tried one out, it was great - some old bloke rambling on and checking his text messages. Could be very useful for anyone who wants to know if they could follow a Chinese university course.

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Wow that's really cool

I goto PKU right now as an exhcange student and I am actually in the a class that's being shown online.

http://www.icourses....b1-4876d02411f6

He's really popular even at PKU(standing room first few weeks)

From a business student perspective, the business school chinese professors were easier to understand but from a history professor professor, their vocabulary all seem to be around his level.

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Those poor academics, so quick to be over-protective of their slides having them shown to the world!

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I was just watching the lecture about the moon (千古名月). At around 2:57, a student goes into a long monologue describing her feelings about the moon. She seems overly enthusiastic with a very prepared type of speech. Is this typical of students in Chinese universities?

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I do not think there are any as these are top tier professors in the top tier universities. Chinese as a foreign language courses wouldn't have professors who are at these calibars.

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The most recent update have bad subtitles (for me). E.g. this one The original clips are fine.

I assume it's an encoding issue in the clip. Can someone confirm that or should I start fiddling with my settings?

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Can someone confirm that or should I start fiddling with my settings?

I watched that link for a few minutes and the subtitles look fine. Is there a specific time in the video that the subtitles fail for you?

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No, It's from the beginning and looks like a encoding issue. I assumed it was hard coded, specially as the older ones are fine. As it was not corrected I started to doubt. If it's fine for you I have to take a look at my settings, I'm not yet sure where though:) Thanks!

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你会了! 谢谢好的 , 大学11月小说时大谢谢你快乐会了 哈哈哈

Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like how the one I am watching http://www.icourses....c6-4876d02411f6 has jarbled "subtitles" because it made me realize that I need to focus on listening rather than read Chinese subtitles (like I do when I watch Chinese TV)

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It looks like Silent and Areckx are experiencing the same encoding issue. I tried it using IE and Firefox on a PC and the subtitles look fine for me. The video did take forever to start though.

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Thanks for the link jkhsu!

I too have this encoding problem -- if anyone figures out what settings to change please let us know...

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It's fine, like I said, with pretty much EVERY SINGLE Chinese show or movie containing Chinese subtitles, I could use the break to focus on my listening. It almost seemed for a second that the jarbled subs were purposely made to look that way in order to spark the "ah-hah!" in our minds that we need to work on our listening.

Besides, if you were actually in the classroom, there wouldn't be subtitles hovering under the professors... although knowing China I wouldn't be surprised if the technology existed. 哈哈哈!

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Under the video, you can switch between 线路1 线路2 线路3 .

I had to switch it to "2" to get readable subtitles and not just strange symbols.

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