Learning Chinese

Podcasts for Mandarin Chinese Learners

Podcasts are a great way to learn languages. You can use Free Language to check the vitality of available Spanish language-learning podcasts by viewing their feed page. Click on any podcast below to view general info followed by the latest items from it's feed. You can tell if the feed has been updated lately, and it'll save you some time in choosing which podcasts to subscribe to.

Recommended Mandarin Chinese Podcast

Free Language highly recommends ChinesePod Podcast. ChinesePod podcasts are professionally produced and updated daily, and the full package includes practical transcriptions, vocabulary lists and online learning tools. All in all, ChinesePod has proven to be highy effective and practical in today's web lifestyle.

Podcasts for Students of Mandarin Chinese

Chinese Learn Online Podcast

Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk Podcast

ChineseLingQ Podcast

ChinesePod Podcast

CSLPod Chinese as a Second Language Podcast

ECPod Upload and Share English and Chinese Video Podcasts

learningmandarinpod Learning Mandarin Chinese Podcast and Video Podcasts

Learn Mandarin Chinese through Pop Music

PublicChinesePod Podcast

Serge Melnyks Learn Mandarin Chinese Weblog

Mandarin Chinese Learning Resources

Mandarin Chinese

Learn Mandarin Chinese

BBCChinese.com BBC News in Mandarin Chinese

BBC Languages Mandarin Chinese

Chinese-Course.com Free Mandarin Course with Flashcards/Sentence Manager

Chinese-Tools.com Website

Chinese Learn Online Podcast

Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk Podcast

ChineseLingQ.com Mandarin Chinese LingQ Podcast with iTunes MP3 Audio

ChinesePod Olympics Website for 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

ChinesePod Podcast for Mandarin Learners

CSLPod.com Chinese as a Second Language Podcast

Deutsche Welle News in Chinese

Download Free FSI Mandarin Chinese Language Courses

ECPod Upload and Share English and Chinese Video Podcasts

EnterZon.com Zon MSU Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game

Free Download HSK and PCR/NPCR Vocabulary Cards in PDF Format

Learn Chinese on YouTube with Mandarin Videos from ActiveChinese

Learn Chinese through Mandarin Pop Songs

LearningMandarinPod Podcast and Videocast

Learn Mandarin Chinese Videos on YouTube AskBenny Channel

Loquella Listen, Read and Speak Chinese Using a Free Online Language Tool

MandarinTools.com Online Chinese Learning Tools

Mobile Chinese Flashcards Cell Phone Software

nciku Free Chinese Handwriting Recognition, Radical Dictionary and More

Ni Hao, Kai-Lan Mandarin Chinese Children's Cartoon Learning Show

Polyglot Culture: Quick Wikipedia Tip for Multilingual Language Surfing Goodness

PublicChinesePod Podcast

Rocket Chinese (Mandarin) Complete Language Audio and Software Course for Total Beginners

Rosetta Stone Mandarin Chinese Language Software Level 1

Semanda Free Chinese Vocabulary Cards and Multiple Choice Quizzes for Children

Serge Melnyks Learn Mandarin Chinese Weblog

Sinosplice: Info about Learning Mandarin Chinese and Living in China

The Chinese Reader Helps Learn to Read Mandarin with Free Chinese Character Text Annotation

US Foreign Service Institute Mandarin Chinese Free Audio Lessons Downloads

Website and Software Project for Chinese Annotation

World Nomads iPod Mandarin Chinese Language Podcasts

Xinhua.net News in Chinese

Zhongwen.com Chinese Characters and Culture

News in Mandarin Chinese

News feeds from around the Spanish-speaking world provide language exposure and practice joined with current events, culture, politics, science, sports and more. At Free Language, you can view summaries of these feeds and jump to view full articles when you interest is piqued.

Mandarin Chinese News Feeds

BBC News in Chinese

Deutsche Welle News in Chinese

Xinhuanet News in Chinese

Mandarin Chinese Internet TV

Watching people speak Mandarin Chinese is a good way to gain exposure to the language in a non-study environment. This is great for folks who aren't living where the language is spoken and especially those already proficient in listening comprehension. If you don't understand anything, it's cool to "vegg out" for a while, but it's not the most productive thing you can do to learn. Try to find something with subtitles, and you're on the way. ;)

If you do get into Internet TV, I highly recommend Miro, a free and open source media player with multimedia RSS capability that supports Linux, Mac and Windows. Hey, "because open media matters."

At any rate, below you'll find resources with literally thousands of Internet TV stations in a wide variety of languages. Amongst them you'll find plenty in Mandarin Chinese. Enjoy!

Global Internet TV Gateway Portal with Web TV in World Languages

NetTVDB Free Database of Internet/Web TV Stations in Multiple Languages and Countries

Helpful Resources and Tools for Mandarin Chinese

SurvivalPhrases.com Survival Phrases in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Swedish, Arabic, Spanish and Vietnamese

ExpertVillage.com Instructional Videos on Learning Foreign Languages

Foreign Language Translation Extensions/Tools/Plugins/Add-Ons for the Firefox Web Browser

PhraseBase.com Multi-Lingual Conversational Phrase Database Resource

expatriates.com Free International Multilingual Language Exchange Partner Classifieds

FoxLingo Free Firefox Browser Extension Software for Translating Web Pages

Online Flashcard Exchange Community

Make Friends Learning Mandarin Chinese

Social language learning has become incredibly popular on the web as it has transcended language barriers in previously impossible ways. Right now someone in China or Taiwan could be interested in teaching you Mandarin in exchange for your English skills. If you speak other languages, the odds are even better that you'll find someone interested in a language exchange.

Note that not all networks below support Mandarin Chinese. Collectively, though, they support pretty much every language.