phonemica
A panorama of Chinese dialects, painted by speakers through their stories
Welcome!
Phonemica is a project to record spoken stories in every one of the thousands of varieties of Chinese in order to preserve both stories and language for future generations. We are a team of volunteers working within China and abroad.
Our mission: Bringing the richness of oral Chinese to a wider audience, through the words of natural storytellers, from every corner of the world where Chinese is spoken.
Read more about our organization, or go straight to the recordings.
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Need interview subjects in Beijing outskirts or in Hebei
20130514 - Steve / 司圆直I'm looking for someone who has friends or relatives we could interview in a small village outside Beijing or in Hebei province within 100km or so of Beijing.
There is a television station that has contacted us and is interested in doing a piece about Phonemica. For part of the program they want to travel out to the countryside or a small village and film Phonemica volunteers doing an…
2013 fundraising
20130427 - Steve / 司圆直Hi folks,
For 45 days, from April 27 to June 9, we're running an Indiegogo fundraiser that we hope will keep us solvent through 2013, and we really need your help
1. Financially, if you can swing it
2. Helping us spread the word
So if you tweet, weibo, blog, write a column, run a radio program, …
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