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| jtmc18 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7248 days ago 119 posts - 140 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 1 of 11 25 February 2012 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have purchased several telenovelas in Spanish over the past few years and have found them excellent for practicing my listening skills. I enjoy the story lines (most of the time) and, for maybe $10 to $15 a piece, think they're an excellent value. Now that I'm learning French and Italian, with intentions to eventually return to Portuguese, I'm wondering if there are similar shows or programs which would help me practice. Is there anything that parallels telenovelas in these languages? Where can they be obtained? Edited by Fasulye on 26 February 2012 at 6:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5133 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 11 25 February 2012 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Can't speak for French (although I'm sure they exist), but Italian serials are easily accessible over on RAI's website.
I was a huge Orgoglio fan a few years ago. Un Posto al Sole is also another good series, but there are newer series coming out all the time. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5378 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 3 of 11 26 February 2012 at 1:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Where did you buy telenovelas for $10-15 and which ones did you get?
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| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7224 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 4 of 11 26 February 2012 at 3:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Are there complete series on dvd? Edited by alang on 27 February 2012 at 7:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| crafedog Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5821 days ago 166 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean, Tok Pisin, French | Message 5 of 11 26 February 2012 at 10:09am | IP Logged | ||
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I would highly recommend 'French In Action'. It's quite unusual, it's a videoclass
combined with a Telenovela. It's quite tricky to explain but I've found it very useful. The teacher's great and the language is very useful. It's far better than (and quite different to) 'Destinos' for Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| blackdahlia Pro Member United States Joined 4732 days ago 64 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 11 29 February 2012 at 8:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've seen something about a show called Plus Belle la Vie and they sell dvds on amazon france, I dont know about amazon US
I dont know anything about it, but I think I want to check those out eventually. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6922 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 7 of 11 29 February 2012 at 11:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am currently watching "La Reina del Sur" (Spanish). It is 40 hours of the complete series for under $20 (both parts). I also have the series "El Capo". Both are available on Amazon.
You can purchase the Italian TV shows "Detective Montalbano" and "Don Matteo" as well as the Portuguese series Alice and Mandrake on Amazon. I purchased the Italian TV series "I Liceali" from amazon.it and the French TV series "Les Bleus" from Amazon.fr Shipping from Europe is a lot faster than it used to be. If you don't mind watching dubbed shows, a lot of U.S. blu-ray shows have German and Italian audio tracks. For example, Firefly the complete series, Pushing Daisies season two and the series Rome are all available in German on U.S. Blu-Ray. Also, if you search YouTube followed by ", long" you can find full TV shows in other languages (especially talk shows about controversial and other topics which contain more speaking than scripted shows anyway). A good one for French is "les enfants d'abraham", for German, I like "genial daneben" which is a game show and for Italian, I like Verdetto Finale (court-like show). Example, search YouTube for: Verdetto Finale, long Other shows: List of Italian Television Series List of French Television series Edited by translator2 on 29 February 2012 at 11:21pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| PillowRock Groupie United States Joined 4737 days ago 87 posts - 151 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 11 01 March 2012 at 12:10am | IP Logged | ||
At the risk of taking a slight tangent: Can I ask roughly how long ago you last ordered from Amazon.fr and whether you used standard or expedited shipping? The reason that ask is that the last that I had heard (some time last summer, I think) Americans ordering from Amazon.fr using standard shipping consistently were having problems with their packages being returned France for an "undeliverable, nonexistent address" problem (not sure if that was the exact phrase) even though they never actually got further than some intermediate point in the UK. This was happening to everybody on a cinephile message board that I sometimes visit, and on such a consistent basis that everybody there stopped ordering from them. Unfortunately, that makes it hard to find out if and when the problem gets fixed. There are a couple things that I might order from Amazon.fr if their standard shipping option is working again. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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