Language learning resources

Chinese (Cantonese):

Voice of America Cantonese service podcast. Two hour daily news service.:

http://www.voacantonese.com/podcast/?count=20&zoneId=2067

A nice podcast to learn Cantonese:
http://www.cantoneseclass101.com/wp/wp-feed-audio-video.php

Chinese (Mandarin):

NHK Japan Mandarin News service podcast, updated several times per day. Very professional: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/rj/podcast/rss/chinese.xml

Chinesepod.com podcast:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/chinesepod/TfVV

Radio Taiwan international. News podcast, uptated 2-3 times a week:
http://mediafile.rti.org.tw:8080/podcast/PodCasting/rti_taiwanview.aspx

Australian SBS radio Mandarin service podcast:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/radiomandarin

United nations radio Mandarin Chinese news podcast.:
http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/chinese/index.php?feed=itunes

Voice of America Chinese service podcast. Two hour daily news service.:
http://www.voachinese.com/podcast/?count=20&zoneId=2966

Thesaurus linguae sericae
A huge on-line archive of Classical Chinese texts, Classical Chinese text analyses, translations, Classical Chinese dictionary, thesaurus ect.

Chinese text project
Another huge database of Classical Chinese texts with a possibility to search in multiple Chinese dictionaries (說文解字, 康熙字典, 爾雅, 廣韻 ect.)

Chinese etymology
Oracle bone script, Bronze inscriptions, Seal script database.

Czech:

Czech national radio podcast:

Website:

http://hledani.rozhlas.cz/iradio/?defaultNavigation=+generic2:^%22%C4%8CRo+1+-+Radio%C5%BEurn%C3%A1l%22$

Podcast link:

http://www2.rozhlas.cz/podcast/cro1.rss

Dutch:

Dutch news podcast. Daily news in Dutch.:
http://download.omroep.nl/rnw/smac/podcast/xml/nl_nieuwslijn.xml

 

French:

Radio l'Europe 1 News podcast, updated daily:
http://www.europe1.fr/podcasts/actu.xml

Very nice interviews on a vast variety of topics. Radio l'Europe podcast:
http://www.europe1.fr/podcasts/interview-8h20.xml

Farsi:

News in Persian from NHK Japan, updated several times per day. NHK Japan Persian news service podcast:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/rj/podcast/rss/persian.xml

Australian SBS radio Persian service podcast:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/persianfarsi

BBC Persian, one hour long newscast updated daily:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/jjn/rss.xml

German:

ZDF news podcast, updated daily:
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/podcast/222736?view=podcast

WDR podcast. Interviews usually concerning German, European and World politics:
http://podcast.wdr.de/radio/redezeit.xml

WDR podcast. A wonderful podcast about popular science:
http://podcast.wdr.de/radio/leonardo.xml

WDR podcast. Round table political talk shows:
http://podcast.wdr.de/radio/presseclubwdr5.xml

Hungarian:

Hungarian political talk show podcast, updated daily:
http://inforadio.hu/podcasting/arena/

SBS radio Australia Hungarian podcast, updated weekly:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/hungarian

Hungarian digital library
A large collection of free audiobooks.

Italian:

Podcast of La Repubblica, updated daily. Very good debates on a variety of topics:
http://tv.repubblica.it/xml/podcast.php

Il Sole 24 ore podcast. As much as I loved La Repubblica, this podcast beats it in terms or organization and quality. It is updated several times a day with shows that are up to 90 minutes long. Spoken word only, interviews on a large variety of topics - all in all a great podcast:
http://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/podcast/radio24.xml

Polish:

Very good political debates. Polish Radio 3 podcast:
http://www.polskieradio.pl/Podcast/6e8788c0-1d6e-4cce-b04b-765a80ac52e0

Portuguese:

News in Portuguese, updated daily. NHK Japan Portuguese news service podcast:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/rj/podcast/rss/portuguese.xml

Romanian:

SBS radio Australia Romanian podcast, updated weekly:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/romanian

Russian:

Russian news podcast, updated daily:
http://www.svobodanews.ru/podcast/?count=50&zoneId=205 

Podcast of Радио Эхо Москвы:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/echomsk

Slovak:

Slovak national radio:
Website:

http://www.rozhlas.sk/radio-slovensko/web-archiv?rel=379

Podcast (unfortunately discontinued for the moment):

http://www.rozhlas.sk/inetportal/web/podcast/index.php?id=425

Spanish:

News in Spanish, updated daily. NHK Japan Spanish service podcast:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/rj/podcast/rss/spanish.xml

News in Spanish from the United nations. UN radio Spanish service podcast:
http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/spanish/rss/itunes.xml

For those who do not know what a podcast is or how to subscribe to them, here's a short video introduction.