So that is cool; you can listen to mandarin news/talk while doing chores around the house. But here's the thing, at least if your mandarin is as lame as mine, a lot of the time, you are going hear a lot that you do not understand. And I often hear some word over and over and wonder what it means but find that just from the tones/pinyin but no context it is hard to look up a word on your own. And when that happens you wish that you had a native speaker handy to help translate. :-)
Now for the cool geeky bit that you might not know: Using VLC you can record the audio stream while you listen to it! This way you can possibly send the audio to your tutor/buddy to give you that little bit of help.
Anyway here is how to record the stream using VLC: first, from the File menu select "Streaming/Exporting Wizard...". Now just work through the screens as follow.
(Hmmm, so today, 8/13, I began having problems doing transcoding using VLC (on my macbook). I do not yet know what is going on though it seems to be a VLC transcoding bug.
One thing that I have tried with some success is using a different URL for the KSQQ stream: http://192.240.97.69:9299. Sigh, anyway, until further notice, when using this technique, your mileage may vary.)
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