On our Shanghai metro map, visitors have long been able to listen to the sexy voice of Wang Jing reading out the station names:

So that our female listeners do not feel left out, we thought we’d better have a guy for the Beijing map. Several days later, all 106 stations now have recordings by our very own Shaun Tang!

On the ExploreBeijing subway map you can now hear a spoken Mandarin pronounciation of each station name. Simply click on any station, then click the “play” button which appears in the upper right hand corner of the bubble:

The big red arrow doesn’t actually appear on the real map.

Also on all the station pages in Subwaypedia (like this one) you can hear the station name by clicking on the ‘play’ button on the right hand side of the page.

Try it out here:

Now if we can just find someone with a Guangzhou accent-ah…

Thanks to Wang Jing, the metro map now has pronunciations in Mandarin for all the new stations will will open at the end of this year. So if you’d like to hear how to say the name of the catchy Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone (North), click the button below!

To hear the pronunciation for any station on the metro map, click any station then click the icon in the top right of the information bubble.

The ExploreShanghai metro map now has audio for every station on the network. So if you’re wondering how to say “Shanghai Circus World” in Chinese, just click on the relevant station and then click the “play” button that appears in the top right.

My thanks to Wang Jing for doing the recordings, if you’re looking for a Mandarin teacher she comes highly recommended!

keep exploring,
matt

New feature on the ExploreShanghai metro map, press the play button in the station “bubble” to hear a pronunciation of the station name. Currently available for some Line 1 stations only,
www.exploreshanghai.com/metro/

Also corrected the name of a station (thanks Greg) and improved the dropdown list of stations.
We got blogged earlier today!
http://www.shanghaiist.com/archives/2007/01/29/the_metro_vendi.php

keep exploring
matt