I decided to move my language resources off how-to-learn-any-language.com for more general consumption. I just took some time to convert this from crappy forum formatting to Markdown, so mistakes have probably been made.
Several years ago I compiled a list of Mandarin audiobooks, hoping that (1) other people would use them, and (2) other people would help me with the list by finding texts for these books in both languages — as long as they’re not still under copyright.
Some of these links may be dead; the first pass here was just the conversion to Markdown. Let me know if you have trouble reaching any of them and I’ll try to fix them, or delete them if that’s not possible.
How to download books
Easy, but time consuming.
- Open the link from this page.
- Click the ”+” next to each track you want.
- Right-click the green download button on the left side (the right side is the
thunder://protocol). Select “Save link as…” to download the file where you want it. - Repeat for each additional track. This can take a long, long time to download 100+ tracks.
Mandarin audiobooks
Confirmed matching audio and transcription
- Fortress Besieged — S: 围城 T: 圍城 (14.3 hours) — audio (32 parts) · EN (dead) · ZH
- Gulliver’s Travels — 格列佛游记 (~3 hours) — audio · ZH
- The Old Man and the Sea — 老人与海 (4.2 hours) — audio (11 parts) · audio (version 2) · ZH
- Star Wars — S: 星球大战 T: 星球大戰 (~8 hours) — audio (13 parts) · ZH 1 · ZH 2 — first line: 塔图因是一个巨大而明亮的星球
- The True Story of Ah Q — 阿Q正传 (~2 hours) — audio · EN · ZH
Confirmed slight differences between audio and text
Can someone find a matching written version for these?
- Anna Karenina — 安娜·卡列尼娜 (~50 hours) — audio (136 parts) · ZH · EN
- Jane Eyre — 简爱 — audio (59 parts) · ZH — the Chinese text is at least pretty similar.
Unchecked
- 1001 Nights — 一千零一夜 — audio · ZH
- Around the World in 80 Days — 八十天环游地球 — audio (37 parts) · ZH
- Complete Andersen’s Fairy Tales — 安徒生童话全集 — audio · EN (zip) · ZH — eek, I don’t know what order they’re in
- Family — 家 — audio (51 parts) · ZH
- Gone with the Wind — 世界名著-飘 — audio (127 parts)
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales — 格林童话 — audio · EN (zip) · ZH
- How the Steel Was Tempered — 钢铁是怎样炼成的 — audio
- The Invisible Man — 隐身人 — audio (28 parts)
- Outlaws of the Marsh — 水浒传 — audio · ZH
- Pippi Longstocking — 长袜子皮皮 — audio
- Robinson Crusoe — 鲁滨逊漂流记 — audio (32 parts) · EN · ZH — audio and ZH are not the same
- Rickshaw Boy — 骆驼祥子 — audio
- Journey to the West — 西遊記 — audio (100 parts)
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms — 三国演义 — audio (365 parts)
Jin Yong 金庸
See the Wikipedia page for background.
- Blade-dance of the Two Lovers — T: 鴛鴦刀 S: 鸳鸯刀 — audio (1 part) · ZH
- The Book and the Sword — T: 書劍恩仇錄 S: 书剑恩仇录 — audio (7 parts, 36 hrs 33 min) · ZH
- Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils — T: 天龍八部 S: 天龙八部 — audio (50 parts) · EN · ZH
- Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain — T: 雪山飛狐 S: 雪山飞狐 — audio (76 parts)
- Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre — 倚天屠龍記 — audio (40 parts) · EN
- The Legend of the Condor Heroes — T: 射鵰英雄傳 S: 射雕英雄传 — audio (40 parts) · EN
- Ode to Gallantry — T: 俠客行 S: 侠客行 — audio (85 parts) · ZH
- The Return of the Condor Heroes — T: 神鵰俠侶 S: 神雕侠侣 — audio (40 parts) · EN · ZH
- The Smiling, Proud Wanderer — 笑傲江湖 — audio (219 parts) · EN · ZH
- Sword of the Yue Maiden — 越女剑 (~1 hr 10 min) — audio (1 part) · EN · ZH
Changelog
- 2008-03-11 — Updated methods.
- 2008-03-24 — Added library.
- 2008-03-27 — Added audiobook section.
- 2008-03-03 — Added links to audiobook section.
- 2008-03-29 — More links to audiobook section.
- 2011-10-04 — Made the mistake of editing in Chrome, had to redo everything. Added Star Wars audio (!). Removed HP and 36 Stratagems (audio gone).
- 2014-09-16 — Converted post from the how-to-learn-any-language.com forum to Markdown.