I’m trying to work on my verbal skills, and since I don’t really know any Mandarin-speaking Chinese, I thought the Net might be able to help.
Is there a good, free website that broadcasts the news, etc. in Mandarin? If it has Chinese subtitles that would be great, too.
Man, I’ve looked for this for a long time, and as far as I can tell there isn’t any.
The best solution I found was to go satellite. There are several free channels up there on the birds, though you do have to buy the dish and receiver. If you can find a used one, though, you should get off pretty cheap.
XM satellite radio had a Mandarin station when they first went on the air, but they dropped it.
Oh hell, I was afraid that would be the answer.
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service used to have Realaudio files of Chinese news with translations of the text into English. I think this program has been ended because of budget cuts, however. Try googling FBIS and mandarin and see what comes up.
I found a site! I have no idea what it’s about, or where it is broadcast from (my Chinese is extremely rudimentary), but it is streaming video and it seems to have subtitles