Princess Remy Podcast
January 18, 2010 – 5:42 pm
To learn Chinese requires learning material. A few weeks ago I’ve introduce one of my recommended Chinese listening materials: popupchinese.com. While Popupchinese is a guided lesson, it does cost money. Today I’ll introduce another resource, which is free (as in free beer) but less guided. Anyhow, this is still one of my favorites.
Princess Remy, Chinese name: 黑米公主, is a women from Taiwan who came to Austria as some kind of exchange student. She reports about her life in Austria in Mandarin Chinese with a slight Taiwanese accent. These are quite funny and the level is acceptable. Depending on the topic I can understand a bit of it, but sometimes when she discusses more advanced stuff I have to surrender. Overall I don’t understand very much, but it’s good to hear a lot of clear Mandarin.
Princess Remy is perfect if you just need massive amounts of Mandarin Chinese in your ear. The sound quality is mostly very good, although I have to remind everyone this is a private podcast and not produced in a professional environment. Considering this, the podcast is of outstanding sound quality. Each podcast of 黑米公主 is about 3 to 5 minutes, focusing on one topic each, which is just fine for learning.
Download more than 500 podcasts: princessremy.net
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One Response to “Princess Remy Podcast”
Thanks for the tip. Will have to check out this site in the future. I think 3-5 minutes is a good time length for most attention spans.
By Anhony Paglino on Jan 25, 2010