hape, thank you very much for information.
I know many contents to import, but they are written in Japanese.
However, I found the following site for learning Chinese written in various languages
free podcast with transcript for Chinese learners in English
Learn Chinese | LearnchinesePod.com
http://www.learnchinesepod.com/
free podcast with transcript for Chinese learnersin in French
Chinois Facile
Apprendre chinois
http://french.cri.cn/learnchinese/
free podcast with transcript for Chinese learnersin in Japanese
Bitex (News in Chinese)
Netchai (News in Chinese)
Sorachina
http://www.sorachina.jp/
Tyugokuog kaiwa.com
http://www.tyuugokugokaiwa.com/
Chinese Station
http://podchina.seesaa.net/
hape, I added your suggestions to the list of resources. Pretty cool!
dilemme, I went through your suggested resources and found that very few of them had Chinese text or pure Chinese content. The videos/clips were filled with Japanese and English, which is not ideal for importing and studying on LingQ. However, I did add Bitex, as it definitely seems useful. Please let me know if any of the others have pure Chinese text or pure Chinese audio w/ transcript.
I’m sure these sites can be useful to members (especially those who are Japanese), so you might even want to post some of them on a separate thread.
A Chinese Course with audios and dialogues (simpl./trad.) from Rutgers University
http://chinese.rutgers.edu/content_cs.htm
The audios are a bit difficult to download, but it’s possible if one looks into the page source text.
Thanks, I’ve added this one too.
I’m sure all the techies will enjoy looking in the source code, but the rest should still have no problem listening to the audio on Rutgers’ site.
http://www.dhcca.org/indexE.htm
has a lot of stories and other material (but mostly without audios) for children:
e.g.
小故事 (Stories)
儿童文学 (Children’s Literature)
儿童笑话 (Children’s Jokes)
插图文学 (Comics)
From Oxford University:
Multimedia Chinese Language:
A supplementary Chinese course at elementary-intermediate level
Each lesson consists of the following standard sections:
Video and text
Vocabulary
Listening and speaking
Grammar exercises
Characters
Multiple choice
Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online
developed by Dr.Tianwei Xie,
Dept.of AAAS California State University, Long Beach
15 units (dialogues and mp3’s)
And the last one for today:
Chinese Voices Project
A collection of mini-essays with mp3 audio for students of Chinese language and culture from Clavis Sinica
Learn Chinese
Free podcast with pynyin transcript for Chinese learners in English
（for absolute beginners)
You can download all the mp3 audio files as well as PDF transcripts on the following address.
For many, many languages - Rhinospike offers texts plus audios in different levels and quality. Sometimes the same text was recorded by different people.
You may request to have your own texts recorded, but you never know when you will get the mp3 and in what quality…
You may also do recordings in your native language to help others and shift your own requests a bit upwards in the list
learnchinesepod.com contains audio lessons that include a lot of English. However, the biggest issue is that there is no Chinese text on the site. Pinyin can be imported, but it doesn’t work well with LingQing.
I’ve added Rhinospike to each respective language. Clavis Sinica is already shared in its entirety on the Library. I added dhcca.org, but the other sites, while offering good resources, have little or no importable text that I could find.
www.newsweekjapan.jp
Newsweek Japan is good if you want just text. The articles are well laid out, instantly familiar if you read the English version and it isn’t quite as intimidating as when you look at a Japanese newspaper.
No audio though unfortunately.
Thanks, I’ve added this to the list.
Free podcast with transcript for French learners (maybe including English) on Radio France International
le talisman brisé
http://www.rfi.fr/cours_de_francais/le_talisman_brise
Mission Europe
L’affaire du coffret
I’ve found this amazing Italian webTV, it’s all about technology, tech gadgets and software. They have thousands of videos, all of them come with transcriptions
There are even some english videos (mostly from CNET) subtitled in Italian.
I couldn’t import them because they are copyrighted, and they did not allow me to put them on LingQ. But still it’s a great resource.
Videos in Italian with transcriptions:
http://video.pmi.it/categorie/format/3/soho/crazy4gadget,6/index1.html
http://video.pmi.it/categorie/format/3/soho/focus,1/index1.html
http://video.pmi.it/categorie/format/3/soho/software,7/index1.html
http://video.pmi.it/categorie/format/3/soho/tech-5,2/index1.html
http://video.pmi.it/categorie/format/3/soho/teknokult,16/index1.html
http://video.pmi.it/categorie/format/3/soho/web-application,13/index1.html
Nice children’s story in English and Chinese (both with audio):
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
While there are no transcripts, for advance learners of English I would recommend the following Canadian story-teller, Stuart McLean.
http://bit.ly/hlJFGN
And for advanced French learners, another Canadian source of very funny material in Quebecois tetesaclaques.tv - Têtes à claques, clips d'animations humoristiques en ligne
Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone. I’ve added these resources (with the exception of a couple).
@chikaraishihara - I’d like to ask the producers of Big Vision Podcast if we can import their stuff into our library. Have you already done this?