Sun 9 Jan 2011
Cantoneseclass101.com
Posted by 馬先生 under Cantonese
I came across a free site cantoneseclass101.com, they provide free mp3 and transcripts for many many lessons in beginner, intermediate, and advanced. I think, however, they could remove the 10 second English trailer on each MP3 which becomes annoying when looping the audio on your mp3 player.
Edit: Oh wait… It’s not really free… They entice you to upgrade to a basic account $4/month to extend your access to get the full archive of lessons. However, you could always grab everything and not continue the following month.
Hong Kong
January 9th, 2011 at 7:42 pm
The podcasts are nicely done, and I would say they are of the best quality I have found on the net so far. Very comprehensible referencing materials too.
The drawback is that, like other podcasts in the 101 language series, you are going to receive a lot of emails from them.
$5/month is really nothing for a serious learner.
January 10th, 2011 at 3:37 am
This site seems to be very good. There are a few downsides, however : they only have absolte beginner and advanced content, they have a lot of monologues read in written Cantonese, there are few words in their dictionary, etc. But I think that within a few months most of these things will be corrected and improved. The only reason why I have not subscribed yet is beacause the premium subscriptions ( which enable you to have 1 on 1 lessons whith a tutor on skype) are not available yet.After a while you just get bored of only listening and not talking to anyone. But all in all, it’s a good resource.
January 10th, 2011 at 11:36 am
popupcantonese.com is similar but has only been running for a few weeks so they don’t have much material yet. I think you are more interested in the advanced audio blog which is part of the 101 site though. I thought I had already posted to you about cantonese101 but I guess it is only now getting a reasonable back catalogue of material.
January 10th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
popupcantonese is interesting. The production team is from Beijing? Is this the same female host as in Cantonese101?
January 11th, 2011 at 4:52 am
I registered there early on and quite like it for the growing quantity of materials and as a supplement to other methods. I guess they plan to build out the intermediate section some time this year? I occasionally find the lack of specificity on what is written and spoken sometimes quite frustrating as my current focus is really just spoken (and ‘writing spoken’ lol).
Can’t believe I’ve missed popupcantonese in my perpetual scouring of the net or materials; Thanks for the link!
January 12th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Edwin
I think the same host has recoded on both cantoneseclass101 and popupcantonese. Also David Lancashire (cn.linkedin.com/pub/david-lancashire/8/9a1/320) used to work for Chinesepod and now does popupchinese, cantonesepod and also works with chineseclass101. I think I also heard him on cantoneseclass101.com and I guess it is also recorded in the popupchinese studio in Beijing.
June 19th, 2011 at 11:45 am
I’am an beginner
June 19th, 2011 at 11:47 am
I’am an beginner,and I want too learn