News Shows with Transcripts

[uni419]

Hey, so I'm that weird guy that actually likes to watch the news. I was wondering if anyone knew of websites that have Chinese language news broadcast (preferably 4/5 times a week, 15-30min broadcast) with full transcripts. In the best case they would also have the video as a conveniently downloadable file which I could rip audio from using handbrake so I could keeping listening to the broadcast for a few days after in order to drill in the vocab and grammar structures that pop up when analysing the transcript. And of course in a truely ideal case they would pay me to listen and watch to this show. 

 

*removes tongue from cheek* 

 

but seriously any tips much appreciated. 

[imron]

You're welcome.

[uni419]

Already familiar with QQSRX, was wondering if there was a more "traditional" news program with anchors and such that also had a transcript. 

[imron]

I can't think of any off the top of my head.  Chinese shows with transcripts are pretty thin on the ground.

[Bad Cao Cao]

1+1 is arguably best and often has transcripts :

http://cctv.cntv.cn/lm/xinwenyijiayi/video/index.shtml

 

If you want "traditional", then this is it: http://cctv.cntv.cn/lm/xinwenlianbo/ [most of those clips come with transcripts]

 

Some more general newscasts, across some of the political spectrum, often with transcripts:

XMWB : http://www.xmwb.com.cn/

Daily newspaper reading : http://phtv.ifeng.com/program/ybttd/list_0/0.shtml

VOA : http://www.voachinese.com/

UN Radio : http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/chinese/

 

The ifeng aggregate page for talk shows/current affairs is excellent and has transcripts for all those programs - http://phtv.ifeng.com/program/talk/

 

There are many general current affairs / social shows, with audio and transcripts, just wait a week or two for the transcript to load or go through back catalog:

Zhìfùjīng (致富经) : http://cctv.cntv.cn/lm/zhifujing/ , http://cctv.cntv.cn/lm/zhifujing/video/

Měirì nóngjīng (每日农经) : http://cctv.cntv.cn/lm/meirinongjing/ , http://cctv.cntv.cn/lm/meirinongjing/video/

 

Also, if you want finance/economics, then sites like this: http://money.163.com/economist

 

It depends what you want, really. Hard to tell what you already are aware of etc.

 

Also "traditional" news is really low return. You are perhaps better off using topical talk back radio, along with transcripts..much, much better for progress, often with a similar vocab (depending on which shows you choose to use).

[wushucrab20]

I'm just curious, has any else used the 原声汉语 series to work on listening comprehension? I used it for a while when I was studying Beijing, but I'm going back through it now to finish because it is serving as a really convenient and easy way to improve my listening comprehension. All the dialogues are natural spoken language from a wide variety of speakers (young, old, male, female, formal, informal, all kinds of accents). The quality of the recordings do not have very high quality, but I've found that a lot of content online or in the news doesn't either so it is difficult to understand. It comes with vocab with each dialogue and full transcripts of everything in the back of the book. I haven't come across another resource like it, so I was wondering if anyone else has used it before or is interested in trying?

[Jan Finster]

On 3/28/2015 at 6:17 AM, Bad Cao Cao said:

http://www.voachinese.com/

 

What are your opinions about this news site? (bias, etc?)