一席 (Yixi)
China's TED-style talk series as audio — one prepared speech per episode.
PodcastsMediaFreeAdvancedB2–C2
What it actually is
Yixi invites researchers, artists, doctors and craftspeople to give a prepared twenty-to-forty-minute talk about their work. Prepared monologue is the friendliest kind of native listening: the speaker has structured the argument in advance, sticks to standard Mandarin, and rarely gets interrupted. Nearly a thousand episodes across wildly different fields, free. Vocabulary is specialised and there are no transcripts in the feed, so expect to look things up.
What it covers
- Listening
- Vocabulary
- Immersion