Jockster Posted April 9, 2006 at 10:29 AM Report Posted April 9, 2006 at 10:29 AM Hi, Some of my favorite listening material for learning Chinese can be found on CRI's site, Learn Chinese Now and Chinese Studio. The lessons are short and contain lots of useful vocabulary and phrases: http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/ce_chinese/ Unfortunately, they have only made them available in streaming WMA, but there is a workaround: there are programs that allow you to turn the streaming WMA into regular, unprotected WMA files. The one I use is Net Transport, available at http://www.xi-soft.com/default.htm.This piece of software even allows you to download the lessons in batch mode. Happy listening Quote
johnmck Posted April 19, 2006 at 09:44 PM Report Posted April 19, 2006 at 09:44 PM I recommend Learn Chinese Now. I found the structure of the course and the fact that full transcripts are avaliable made it ideal for beginers like me. Also the course is quite large, 200 lessons. Now that I have finished I am looking around at what to do next. Is there anyone else who has finished this course who can point me to something appropriate? Quote
liuzhou Posted April 20, 2006 at 01:27 PM Report Posted April 20, 2006 at 01:27 PM Please consider also posting links in the links section where they are more easily found. Thanks. Quote
stephanhodges Posted April 20, 2006 at 01:31 PM Report Posted April 20, 2006 at 01:31 PM This can't be the "Learn Chinese Now" course from Transparent Languages, right? That's only a 2 CD set, with limited # of courses, according to Amazon.com. What specific course are you referring to? Quote
johnmck Posted April 21, 2006 at 09:17 AM Report Posted April 21, 2006 at 09:17 AM Please consider also posting links in the links section where they are more easily found. Thanks. The CRI link is already there. Quote
johnd Posted April 27, 2006 at 07:33 AM Report Posted April 27, 2006 at 07:33 AM Thanks to Jockster! I've been finding Learn Chinese Now very useful. One things been bugging me though. At the beginning of every lesson there's a short clip and I can't understand the last part. It goes: Ni hao, ni hao, ni hao, da jia hao, da jia hao...wan shi ru yi What does that last part mean? "Wan shi ru yi". I hope that pinyin's right! Quote
johnd Posted April 27, 2006 at 07:47 AM Report Posted April 27, 2006 at 07:47 AM OK, I've been working on this myself. Could it be 万事如意, which I'm guessing means "everything you need"? Quote
L-F-J Posted April 27, 2006 at 08:45 PM Report Posted April 27, 2006 at 08:45 PM 万事如意 = Best wishes. Wan4 = 10 thousand Shi4 = matter, affair Ru2yi4. = match one's wishes Quote
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