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Recommend Me Some Mandarin Media
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So I'm starting a high intensity Mandarin Chinese course over the next year. To help with it we're encouraged to read Chinese newspapers, watch Chinese television and movies, and listen to Chinese music. I'd like recommendations specifically for any music and television that I could watch. I'd prefer something in the realm of comedy for television and pop or rock for music, though those aren't set in stone preferences as I appreciate anything well written outside of that. Children's shows won't hurt either since they'd be easier on me starting out.
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Go scour Youtube for clips. The more popular shows, talkshows or soaps, usually get uploaded in its entirety. I can't really give you recommendations since I'm not much of a fan, especially when most of them consist of young males being pretty and adolescent girls swooning over them. They're not very interesting if you don't know any of them. Movies are a different story, but I take it you're not eager to buy DVDs?
As for music, I dunno, I don't really pay attention to the music scene, but I generally hear a lot of ballads, bubblegum pop, R&B, hiphop and stuff I already heard in the '90s. Rock is a bit more underground, especially punk and metal, ever since rock music got banned from television in the early '90s. As before I have no idea what to recommend. Be a little more specific?
More importantly, I don't think listening to music will really help you familiarize with the language. Lyrics don't always make sense which will just confuse you even more. Moreover, poor English is thrown around to sound cool and western. Unless you'd like to listen traditional (nationalistic) music of course.