====== Audio Resources ======

Links to good quality websites for audio resources. Many of these links are from personal bookmark collections. Will be adding some downloads here also.

  * [[http://popupchinese.com/voucher/refer/TABLETPOWER|Popup Chinese]] A great set of audio, transcriptions, notes, newsletter, etc.

  * [[http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/pinyin.html|Chinese Pronunciation Tool]] Also has other free online tools.

====== Video Study Resources ======

Here are links to various videos in Chinese about non-fiction topics. That is, these are not links to popular movies, etc. but rather to non-fictional items. The purpose would be to improve vocabulary within specialized areas by listening __in context__.

===== News =====

  * http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/

===== TV =====

  * http://beelinetv.com/chinese_tv/ 27 channels //(2009/01/31)// of free streaming TV in Chinese. "CCTV-9" is mostly an English Channel broadcast in China.

===== Daily Living =====

  * [[http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjEyNzU3NzI=.html|How to Manage Money]]
  * http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_%E9%B2%81%E8%B1%AB%E6%9C%89%E7%BA%A6     Interviews
  * http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_%E8%AE%BF%E8%B0%88        Interviews
  * http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_%E6%BC%94%E8%AE%B2/cateid_105      Presentation
  * http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_%E8%BE%A9%E8%AE%BA/cateid_105     Oral debate
  * http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_%E6%BC%94%E8%AF%B4/cateid_105      Talk

===== Animals =====
  * http://www.tudou.com/playlist/id/478861/                          shows about animals
  * http://space.tv.cctv.com/act/schedule.jsp?scheduleId=SCHE1213585514597966   Nature
  * http://space.tv.cctv.com/act/platform/view/page/composePage.jsp?pageId=PAGE1213600890505980          discovery I
  * http://space.tv.cctv.com/act/schedule.jsp?scheduleId=SCHE1220529331100288 discovery

===== Geography =====
  * http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_328280.html        shows how to be a great country
  * http://www.kjy.cn/class.asp?lx=big&anid=79                    geography, but you have to create an account to log in

===== Culture =====

  * http://space.tv.cctv.com/act/schedule.jsp?scheduleId=SCHE1220529331100288  People
  * http://space.tv.cctv.com/act/schedule.jsp?scheduleId=SCHE1213613641522495  Culture

===== History =====
  * http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_%E5%8E%86%E5%8F%B2/cateid_105            History

===== Science =====

  * http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTc3NzU5NDA=.html
  * http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_%E7%B2%BE%E5%93%81%E8%AF%BE%E7%A8%8B_orderby_1_page_6.html  Excellent courses  * 
  * http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_%E5%A4%96%E4%BA%A4%E9%83%A8        Official affairs
  * http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_%E7%89%A9%E7%90%86/cateid_105             Physics
  * http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_%E7%A7%91%E6%95%99/cateid_105             Science
  * http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6%E6%95%99%E7%A8%8B/cateid_105 大学教
  * http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_%E8%AE%A1%E7%AE%97%E6%9C%BA%E6%95%99%E7%A8%8B/cateid_105         Computer course
  * http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_%E8%AE%B0%E5%BD%95%E7%89%87/cateid_105    Record
  * [[http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_1156965.html|Science Courses]]
 
===== Experiments =====

<box left round blue|China News (English)>http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/</box>
<box left round blue|How to Manage Money>http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjEyNzU3NzI=.html</box>
<box left round blue|a title>http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTc3NzU5NDA=.html</box>
<box left round blue|100 shows about animals> http://www.tudou.com/playlist/id/478861/</box>


====== 汉语学习网站 ======

Chinese Study Websites (added English translation for index-ability) 

  * [[http://www.linese.com/]]
  * [[http://www.china.org.cn/learning_chinese/node_7046023.htm]] 中文学习
  * [[http://www.bychinese.com/learn/]]
  * [[http://english.cri.cn/08chinese/index.htm]]
  * [[http://www.learnchinese.cn/]]
  * [[http://www.gchinese.com/]]

===== FLV Players =====

  * http://applian.com/flvplayer/
  * http://www.gomlab.com/eng/

===== YouTube Downloaders =====
==== Direct Link Download Sites ====
There are several sites that can convert a YouTube video link into a download link for you.

  * http://freeyoutubedownloader.net/
  * http://www.youtubecatcher.com/
  * http://metatuber.com/ Website: Give it your YouTube URL and it will return a download link.
  * http://www.downloadfromyoutube.com/ Website: Give it a URL, and it returns a download link
  * http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/
  * http://keepvid.com/

==== Articles ====

  * [[http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/youtube-catcher/|MakeUseOf Article]] on YouTube downloaders with several links and suggestions.
  * [[http://mashable.com/2007/05/05/download-youtube-video/|Mashable Article]]

==== Sofware ====
There are also downloadable software packages and plug-ins for Firefox, etc.

  * http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/  Downloadable software


===== Video Recovery =====
  * [[http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/video_cache_view.html]] This software is free, and will locate cached (stored in a temporary location) video files that you watch with your web browser. (If the link seems to never finish loading, try viewing the page source and scroll down to the download link in the source. When writing this, the direct download link was [[http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/videocacheview.zip]] 

==== Misc ====

  * [[http://lifehacker.com/5151236/dvdsmith-movie-backup-copies-whole-discs-or-just-the-main-movie|Lifehacker article on getting movies onto hard drive]]