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I've been studying Mandarin Chinese for a year now.

To improve my listening skills and to have fun at the same time I thought of watching famous american movies and famous american TV shows (such as Friends) dubbed in Chinese.

I've been trying hard to find websites. I searched a website called "VeryCd" but you can't use this website any more.

I would be really happy if somebody could help me find a website that allows you to either download (by utorrent or emule) or watch movies online.

Thanks a lot and have a nice day! Xiexie!

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I do not think this website should condone piracy behaviour, but if anyone has links to websites that sell dubbed movies, then it's OK. – deutschZuid Feb 12 at 20:51
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Not to challenge your request but to make sure you're aware, it is far from ideal to learn Chinese by watching non-Chinese movies dubbed in Chinese. Language usage is deeply connected to its culture, not to mention the misleading risk from low quality translation. For example, greetings translated from English to Chinese are not the same greetings that real Chinese say to each other; concepts like 'carpool' doesn't exist in Chinese and translation for such concept usually sounds weird to native speakers; etc. – NS.X. Feb 12 at 22:12
@NS.X. Yeah dubs I don't find helpful.. I actually find it (slightly more) useful to watch en TV / movies with zh subtitles. I also have Chinese satellite TV (Chinasat 6B) at home which I have on most of the time in the background. It cost $800 for the satellite setup but it was worth it. – trideceth12 Feb 13 at 6:30

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To clarify you are looking for American movies, dubbed into Chinese, then english subtitles. This is going to be hard to find.

This is a description of how these movies are obtained, please recognise that it is merely a description, not an encouragement to violate your country's intellectual copyright laws - if they are applicable.

Dubbed movies are either bought when they are released, downloaded using the torrent system, same thing for the pirated version, or found on youku the service I outlined below but you will have to dig through a lot of stuff to find them, I've seen them. They pop up when someone films the movie in the theater and then puts it on youku.

In these versions, you can toggle the subtitles to a few languages including English and they are USA movies dubbed into Mandarin.

It is possible to buy these on Shanghai Craigslist (from expats). Buying bootleg movies there is super duper easy.

Zhongwen Movies

http://www.zhongwenmovies.com

Personally I think this is the way to go. They are good movies, you won't get a cultural/translation gap, and they have English subtitles

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Hey, thanks a lot first of all... i went to the web and mange to watch the videos with proxy... i watched this video: v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTEyMTE2NTA0.html the problem his, that it's in english (with chinese subtitels). i want to find american videos with chinese audio (dubbed) and english subtitels – Michael Levy Feb 12 at 18:15
Which proxy did you use? – fourtones Feb 12 at 19:07
thanks a lot for all your help! – Michael Levy Feb 12 at 19:48
Fourtones, as much as I appreciate your answer, piracy should not in any way be encouraged on chn.se or any se websites for that matter. – deutschZuid Feb 12 at 20:55
Of course. I've edited the answer to reflect our shared perspective. – fourtones Feb 12 at 21:57
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I'd stay clear of those kinds of websites. They're illegal and good way to get viruses. But, I used to have a copy of Mulan that had a Mandarin version on the disk. You can buy it here: http://www.amazon.com/Mulan-Two-Disc-Special-Edition-Ming-Na/dp/B00024I2Z4. Maybe something like that's a better idea.

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