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

• Popup Chinese A great set of audio, transcriptions, notes, newsletter, etc.

• Chinese Pronunciation Tool Also has other free online tools.

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.

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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

• 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
• Science Courses

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/

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

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/

• MakeUseOf Article on YouTube downloaders with several links and suggestions.
• Mashable Article

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

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

• 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

• Lifehacker article on getting movies onto hard drive