Chinese Podcasts are an easy way to create a quality immersion environment at home to improve both you and your children’s Chinese.
With Chinese podcasts, both you and your kids can pick up Chinese without much effort from you! #winning!
You can play it anywhere and listen to it while you do the dishes. You can even slow down the speed to help with comprehension.
It’s a great form of educational entertainment for kids. Best of all, it’s FREE!
Below is how to use Chinese podcasts to your advantages and a list of the ones I’ve found for both parents and kids.
How to Use Chinese Podcasts to Optimize Language Input!
- While Kids Play: You’ll be surprised how much children LOVE listening to audiobooks and stories. I truly wished I started this sooner. Once I began playing it for my daughter, she loved it so much. Kids can draw, play with toys, put together puzzles and be picking up Chinese at the same time without much effort from you!
- During Quiet Times: You probably need a break and there’s no better way to get a break than knowing your child is being exposed to something educational while you rest. During my daughter’s one hour quiet time in the afternoon, she listens to stories in her room and plays with her toys.
- In the Car: Want to focus on driving and not hear your kids ask you for the billionth time, “when will we get there?” Then play some Chinese podcasts that tells stories! My daughter loves listening to stories in the car and asks for them all the time.
- At the Grocery Store/While You Run Errands: Keep your kids entertained and learning Chinese while you grocery shop. My daughter enjoys listening to stories while I grocery shop.
- Before Bed: Listening to stories is a great way to help kids calm down and relax before bedtime.
- When You Travel: playing audio books before bed is now my daughter’s routine. Having this available while we travel not only entertains her on flights, car rides and on public transportation, but it’s also been a great way for us to keep some routine while we travel.
Chinese Podcasts for Kids
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Beginner
Amanda aka Miss Panda Chinese is an experienced Chinese teacher. Her short bite size episodes are created especially with young beginning Chinese learners in mind.
Beginner
This is a great bilingual podcast hosted by teacher Sandy. This podcast is ideal for young developing learners. The podcasts is intended for Taiwanese kids learning English, so it goes back and forth between English and Mandarin to help kids learn new vocabulary.
Intermediate
This interactive podcast is designed especially for children of Chinese/Taiwanese descent learning Chinese overseas. Hosted by a Taiwanese Mandarin teacher living in Japan, the episodes are thoughtfully paced—she speaks slowly and clearly, making it easy for young learners to follow along.
Listeners are invited to participate through fun questions and even features their answers in the show!
Intermediate
Fun podcast created by Nancy, the host of Mama Laoshi youtube channel. Super engaging and fun. Kids are invited to submit their own questions and recordings for a chance to be featured in the podcast. A wonderful way to encourage your child to speak Mandarin.
Intermediate
Quality entertaining Mandarin story podcast for kids with wide array of stories to choose from.
Advanced
Uncle Wei provides quality story recordings, making stories interesting with realistic sound effects and music. It used to be one of my daughter’s favorite.
Advanced
Made for native speaking children. A great STEM podcast for kids who are interested in science and technology.
Advanced
This Chinese podcast for kids covers current events in an age appropriate way. Great way to pick up relevant new vocabulary. They even quiz kids on the content at the end of each episode.
Advanced
Learn about famous historical figures who changed the world through this fun engaging podcast for kids.
Advanced
Quality STEM and story podcast for kids who are interested in math, science and tech.
Chinese Podcasts for Parents
I wanted to include some podcasts for parents wanting to improve their Mandarin Chinese as well.
This is one of the many fun ways I improved my Mandarin Chinese when I first started teaching my kids.
For my full list of fun and creative ways I worked on improving my Chinese as a busy mom, be sure to check out this blog post.
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Parenting expert V媽 answers parenting questions. I love how soothing and encouraging she is. She focuses on gentle/positive parenting methods. Great for picking up Chinese parenting phrases. So glad I found her! She’s super popular on FB, has about 30K followers. I can totally see why.
Created by a popular parenting magazine from Taiwan, their podcast was recently added to American podcast platforms. Lots of interesting & quality interviews centered on parenting and kids.
Mama Lili who is an occupational therapist along with her friend Michelle talk about all things parenting. Entertaining, relatable short episodes. This is my current favorite.
Two dads talking about “dad stuff.” From reviewing products to talking about the day to day #dadlife, this would be a great podcast for the bilingual dads out there.
Hope you and your kids enjoy these podcasts. I’m sure as you take time to listen to them, your Chinese will improve!
Be sure to share this post with other parents so they know about them. Chinese podcasts are difficult to search for.
If you come across more Chinese podcasts for parents or kids that you love, please let me know so I can keep adding new ones!
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7 Responses
As always, thank you so much for this round up, Sunny! Do you have any particular episodes you would recommend to get into the one by V媽? Thanks so much!
Not really actually, I’ve been encouraged by hearing how she talks to her kids and the advice she gives to parents.
Do you have any recommendations for Christian podcasts in Chinese? Particularly for women, but not geared specifically for parenting. Would love to introduce some good podcasts to the women at my church here in Taiwan!
Sorry, I actually have had trouble finding those podcasts too.
Do you know of any good Cantonese children’s podcasts?
I don’t actually, but I believe @Sweetnotelearning on IG does 🙂