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I wonder why you didn't add my suggestions for German.
Vera, I must've missed your post. I've now added welt.de to the list.

americanrhetoric.com is also a great site, and I've added that too.

Thanks!
If people are going to go to the trouble of recommending content it is important that we not "miss" them.
Some website suggestions for French content:

* Le Monde
http://bit.ly/1181b
* Le Figaro
http://bit.ly/ftsYc
* Toute la presse en ligne
http://bit.ly/fQRMK6
* RFI
http://rfi.my/NsvvC
* TV5 Monde
http://bit.ly/b6lIED
* Deutsche Welle FR
http://bit.ly/14f2GJ
* Wikipédia FR
http://bit.ly/768AXd
* Project Gutenberg FR
http://bit.ly/dfNWJ
* Ebooks libres et gratuits
http://bit.ly/289GK6
* Livres pour tous
http://bit.ly/11NEGN
* Wikisource
http://bit.ly/9g6YJl
* Wikilivres
http://bit.ly/avaL2E
* Litterature audio.com
http://bit.ly/2Lk2M
* Audiocite
http://bit.ly/2AoBqp
* LibriVox
http://bit.ly/et0TKh
@Alex: Thank you for adding "welt.de". You should add the other site too. It is: http://www.zeit.de/index (German)
@Bortrun, @Jamie: The resources that you recommend here are added to the links on the import page. You can suggest a link here, and Alex add the link to the list of resources that is shown on the import page. Click on "Import lesson", and you'll see the links.
I've added the other site you suggested, along with many others from the spreadsheet mentioned in this thread: http://www.lingq.com/learn/en/forum/1/8980/
Korean:
http://www.chosun.com
http://www.sbs.co.kr
Thanks defsoad, these two have been added :)
Hi Alex, I wouldn't recommend "GermanPod101". I suggest to delete it from the list. You have to sign up. What I dislike the most ist that it comes with lots of advertisement asking you for signing up for a paying membership. I think we should only suggest material with direct access.

There is a typo: Librivox, not Librovox.

Instead of "Andersen Stories" I would recommend http://www.dradio.de/. There is no need for a special link to Andersens Stories because "Projekt Gutenberg" and Librivox include his stories too.
I've added dradio.de to the list -- Thanks for the suggestion!

As GermanPod101 has a lot of useful content, it will stay on the list for now. People can decide for themselves which resources they prefer. I know that I don't like KoreanClass101.com, but a coworker has been doing well using their content in collaboration with LingQ, so we figure it's better to give more options than fewer.
Andersen Stories also offers side-by-side translations in several languages offered on LingQ, and this may be of interest to some users.

I've corrected the typo; thanks for pointing that out :)
Hi Alex, I disagree. Have you really checked the site?

I've signed up, and I listened to some podcasts to give them a chance. The podcasts includes a lot of English, and some of the speakers are non-native speakers. I know that Steve recommend to use material that is only in the target language. There method is quite different from the LingQ method. If people like it, it is fine. But it shouldn't be in our list of resources that we can use for import.

I checked some of there lessons and courses. You can only listen to the first 3 lessons of a course as a free member. And the transcript is only available for paying members. Free members have the full functionality for 7 days only.
Vera,
I didn't realize the transcripts were only available to paying members. I do agree with you that the site (and its sister sites) use too much English. What you say makes a lot of sense, so I've removed the site from the list (along with KoreanClass101).

To all others, we're still open to any suggestions you may have for sites with good content!
Very good Chinese videocasts "Cultural Interviews with Chinese-Speaking Professionals" (for Intermediate+ learners)

Cultural Interviews with Chinese-Speaking Professionals is a compilation of brief video clips in which Chinese-speaking professionals discuss cultural issues that are of interest to North Americans. The objective of the interviews is three-fold: First, provide practical cultural information about business topics. The opinions represent those of real people. At times they are even contradictory, but they are designed to be a catalyst for discussion, not a definitive answer about some stereotype. Second, the interviews provide vocabulary in areas within a professional setting. The interviews present diverse vocabulary within the context of each individual's comments. Third, these materials provide non-native speakers of Chinese with multiple examples of natural speech, illustrating the way that speakers really talk.

Created by Orlando R. Kelm (University of Texas at Austin), Haidan Wang (University of Hawaii) and Jeanette Chen (University of Texas at Austin).

Link: http://bit.ly/9YmnWN
One more link to free podcasts with transcript for Chinese learners:

http://www.slow-chinese.com

hape, thank you very much for information.

I know many contents to import, but they are written in Japanese.

However, I found the following site for learning Chinese written in various languages

http://learning.chinese.cn/
free podcast with transcript for Chinese learners in English

Learn Chinese | LearnchinesePod.com
http://www.learnchinesepod.com/

free podcast with transcript for Chinese learnersin in French

Chinois Facile
http://chinoisfacile.podomatic.com/

Apprendre chinois
http://french.cri.cn/learnchinese/

free podcast with transcript for Chinese learnersin in Japanese

Bitex (News in Chinese)
http://bitex-cn.com/

Netchai (News in Chinese)
http://www.netchai.jp/

Sorachina
http://www.sorachina.jp/

Tyugokuog kaiwa.com
http://www.tyuugokugokaiwa.com/

Chinese Station
http://podchina.seesaa.net/
hape, I added your suggestions to the list of resources. Pretty cool!

dilemme, I went through your suggested resources and found that very few of them had Chinese text or pure Chinese content. The videos/clips were filled with Japanese and English, which is not ideal for importing and studying on LingQ. However, I did add Bitex, as it definitely seems useful. Please let me know if any of the others have pure Chinese text or pure Chinese audio w/ transcript.

I'm sure these sites can be useful to members (especially those who are Japanese), so you might even want to post some of them on a separate thread.
A Chinese Course with audios and dialogues (simpl./trad.) from Rutgers University

http://chinese.rutgers.edu/content_cs.htm

The audios are a bit difficult to download, but it's possible if one looks into the page source text.
Thanks, I've added this one too.

I'm sure all the techies will enjoy looking in the source code, but the rest should still have no problem listening to the audio on Rutgers' site.
http://www.dhcca.org/indexE.htm

has a lot of stories and other material (but mostly without audios) for children:
e.g.
小故事 (Stories)
儿童文学 (Children's Literature)
儿童笑话 (Children's Jokes)
插图文学 (Comics)
From Oxford University:
Multimedia Chinese Language:
A supplementary Chinese course at elementary-intermediate level

http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Chinese/index.html

Each lesson consists of the following standard sections:
Video and text
Vocabulary
Listening and speaking
Grammar exercises
Characters
Multiple choice
Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online
developed by Dr.Tianwei Xie,
Dept.of AAAS California State University, Long Beach

15 units (dialogues and mp3's)

http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm

And the last one for today:

Chinese Voices Project
A collection of mini-essays with mp3 audio for students of Chinese language and culture from Clavis Sinica

http://clavisinica.com/voices.html
Learn Chinese
Free podcast with pynyin transcript for Chinese learners in English
(for absolute beginners)

You can download all the mp3 audio files as well as PDF transcripts on the following address.

http://www.learnchinesepod.com/download/

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