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.

Social

Social Language Learning

Babbel.com Virtual Flash Card Language Share Site w/English, French, German, Italian, Spanish Tools

Busuu Social Language Exchange Partner Community plus Multimedia Photo-Audio Lesson Archives and Video Chat Interface

ECPod.com ECPod English Chinese Video Podcasts Uploaded By and For the Community

expatriates.com Free International Multilingual Language Exchange Partner Classifieds

italki.com Free Skype VoIP and IM Language Partner Community

Language-Exchanges.org Mixxer Free Skype Language Exchange Community

Lingopass.com Free Global Language Exchange Community

LiveMocha.com Live Mocha Social Language Learning Course and Networking Website

MyHappyPlanet.com My Happy Planet Private Social Language-Learning Community

Palabea.net Palabea the Speaking World Social Language Exchange Network

VoxSwap.com VoxSwap Online IM and Voice Social Foreign Language Exchange

Worldia.net Worldia International Community to Learn and Teach Foreign Languages

Mandarin Chinese Resources for Non-English Speakers

Apprendre le chinois chez chine-nouvelle.com
Aprender chino a chino-china.com
Chinesisch-Lernen.org Chinesisch Lernen und China Entdecken

InfoCina.net Web site per imparare la lingua cinese
A-China.info: um Web site com informação e recursos para aprender a língua chinesa

Język-Chinski.com: Nauka języka chińskiego poznaj Chiny

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

詩詞吟唱

大紀元文化網古典詩詞

華語網 詩歌

李叔同

詩詞吟唱本

中国学生网-诗词在线

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Chinese Podcast

Cantonese Lessons Feed Web Site

This is a very fledgling Cantonese language series. It has one lesson so far. So we'll have to see if this is for real. In the meantime, please let us know if you find a richer collection of Cantonese lessons.

Chinese Learn Online iTunes Feed Web Site

A dialogue-based introduction to Mandarin Chinese. Load them on your iPod and get up the Chinese curve.

Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk iTunes Feed Web Site

Weekly lessons in Mandarin that get very strong reviews from iTunes users..

Chinesepod.com iTunes Feed Web Site

A series of well-reviewed lessons that will let you learn Mandarin on your own terms.

iMandarinPod.com iTunes Feed Web Site

A more advanced podcast, this series of lessons teaches Chinese by talking about Chinese culture or what is happening today in China.

LearnChinesePod.com iTunes Feed Web Site

A Mandarin language podcast taught by Yao in New York City.

Mandarin Chinese Conversation iTunes Web Site

A language series put together by TimesOnline.

Mandarin Chinese Feed Web Site

10 Lessons by the US Peace Corps. Make sure you visit the site and download the pdf that accompanies the lessons.

Survival Chinese iTunes Feed Web Site

Learn the phrases you need to get by while traveling in China.

Think and Talk Like (the) Chinese iTunes Web Site

Cathy Lu takes a look at the Chinese language, while introducing students to China's history and culture.

World Learner Chinese iTunes Feed Web Site

Another in the mix of possibilities.

Learn Chinese Quickly with Rosetta Stone

Open Culture

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Das Lied von der Erde

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Das Lied von der Erde

Das Lied von der Erde V Der Trunkene im Frühling

Poésies de l’époque des Thang traduites du chinois et présentées par le Marquis d'Hervey-Saint-Denys Une traduction vénérable

Judith Gautier (1845-1917) Le Livre de Jade, poèmes (1867), sous le pseudonyme de Judith Walter

Chinesische Lyrik (1907) by Hans Heilman

Die chinesische Flöte: Nachdichtungen chinesischer Lyrik by Hans Bethge Leipzig, Inselverlag, 1907 Now available from YinYang Media Verlag Order Information

Tracking the Literary Metamorphosis of Das Lied von der Erde by Teng-Leong Chew The Chicago Mahlerites PDF

Perspectives The Identity of the Chinese Poem Mahler adapted for “Von der Jugend” by Teng-Leong Chew

Das Lied von der Erde: German Text and English Translation by Emily Ezust The Lied and Art Song Texts Page Full Text

Dr. Jürgen Weber: Chinesische Gedichte ohne Chinesisches in Gustav Mahlers „Lied von der Erde“

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde ( The Song of the Earth ) pdf

Lo Kü-Ming: Chinesische Dichtung als Text-Grundlage für Mahlers “Lied von der Erde”, in: Das Gustav Mahler Fest Hamburg 1989 (Bericht über den internationalen Mahler-Kongress), Kassel/Basel/London/New York 1991, S. 509-528

羅基敏，〈世紀末的頹廢：馬勒的《大地之歌》〉，《文話/ 文化音樂》，台北(高談文化) 1999, 154-197。

羅基敏 1994/1 中國詩與馬勒的《大地之歌》東吳大學文學院第五屆系際學術研討會音樂研討會論文集1994年一月 47-76頁

羅基敏 2003文話音樂廣西師範大學出版社

壹文學與音樂之互動

六世紀末的頹廢：馬勒的《大地之歌》

誰破譯了《大地之歌》的唐詩密碼？張潔宇2000年01月26日《光明日報》

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Dilber Yunus

Freuden sonder Zahl

Jedem lächelt traut

Lieber bleib ich hier,

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Learning Chinese

Recommended Mandarin Chinese Podcast

Helpful Resources and Tools for Mandarin Chinese

Make Friends Learning Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin Chinese Resources for Non-English Speakers

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