Comments on: RTI, my favourite radio station

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 05:46:36 +0000

Since most of the links on this page are now dead, here’s an updated working link (as of Sept 2018) for the direct RTI audio:
http://live2.rti.org.tw/live/_definst_/rti/rti3/playlist.m3u8

If you use VLC (as I do), just go to file -> open network, and then paste in that link and it’ll start playing.

I’ve been listening to this station for a few years myself and it’s been immensely helpful!

By: Learning with Native Mandarin Chinese Audio: A No-Nonsense Guide

Learning with Native Mandarin Chinese Audio: A No-Nonsense Guide — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 08:27:15 +0000

[…] rather than just entertaining you. I get most my listening material in this category from Radio Taiwan International, but there are many other sources if you’re not particularly interested in […]

By: dsu

dsu — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:56:05 +0000

In reply to jenjen.

On http://www.rti.org.tw/ you’ll see a carousel of widgets. There’s a slideshow widget with a date widget to the left of it and a weather widget to the right of it. You can click through any of the slides (there are dots below the slide show) and if you see an audio icon on any of slides, click the image and it will take you to the news article with audio.

Here’s an example of such a news article with an article.
http://news.rti.org.tw/news/detail/?recordId=154340

I wasn’t able to find a url with a list of featured articles that just have audio.

By: jenjen

jenjen — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:07:46 +0000

In reply to Learning with Native Mandarin Chinese Audio: A No-Nonsense Guide. hello ??

By: jenjen

jenjen — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:04:02 +0000

1. why i dont see any download thing in the website , everything is in chinese , i dont even know where i can download any news mp3 that is being stream or from podcast , can u help me ?
2.and where i can see the transcripts , again everything in chinese , dont know where to click to find the transcripts and the mp3 download button 🙂 please help me

By: Learning with Native Mandarin Chinese Audio: A No-Nonsense Guide

Learning with Native Mandarin Chinese Audio: A No-Nonsense Guide — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:00:26 +0000

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:22:09 +0000

A lot of these links to RTI pages are dead now, unfortunately.

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:40:40 +0000

In reply to Joe. Depends on what OS you use, but I run a console command for VLC that automatically launches VLC with RTI in the background, works fine. If you don't use Linux, I can't really help, but setting things on autostart in general shouldn't be that hard.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 04:49:52 +0000

Thanks for the post. Is it fairly easy to set RTI to autostart? I’ve had a look at how to do but no luck. I like the idea of making an effort to turn it off/not listen.

By: Michael Bolger

Michael Bolger — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:37:07 +0000

Capital 98.5FM is a decent Singaporean station for practicing listening. They tend to play music at night, but during the day there’s lots of chatting, which is great for aural practice.

If anyone is interested in listening to some 相声, Beijing Happy Hour and Galaxy Crosstalk tend to do a lot of them. They can be very tricky to understand due to their use of 北京话, but are interesting for practice nonetheless

I highly recommend buying a radio that can connect to international stations. I have a great one made by Roberts, it can connect to dozens of stations from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore etc, so there’s always a good bit of variety to choose from when studying!