Subtitles II: Exciting update
So it’s been a very long time since I last posted but it hasn’t been a lack of thought about mandarin that’s kept me away.
Anyhow, I thought I would share an exciting new resource I’ve found in the native English speakers quest to learn Mandarin. I mentioned in a previous post that I was frustrated with the lack of Chinese film and television that had English subtitles. Enter mysoju.com, an index site that has links to hundreds of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language shows, many/most of which have English subs.
There is also a cooperative of fan subbers at timelessub.org. The majority of the television and video on this site isn’t hosted online, rather needs to be downloaded via torrent.
Having resources such as these is so valuable in the period between having advanced past basic listening exercises and having the comprehension to listen to a full news report fulling in unknown words through context.
Disclaimer: I’m in no way advocating piracy. Buy the videos. Use these links for subtitles, not the videos themselves. We all want to stay out of jail don’t we? 
