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| PierreND Triglot Newbie France Joined 4895 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 14 02 July 2011 at 2:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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To learn languages I mostly use(d) podcasts.
You are learning one or more languages and that's fun. What would you think of learning French also? By podcast? My plan is to create a podcast (French conversation) for intermediate or advanced French learners. Here is how I precisely want do it: - free podcast of native French speech (around 10 minutes long, free to download/suscribe). So free audio for everyone without registering. - paying written guide. This would be something like $20/month for around 7 podcasts a month. I think it could become a great podcast with interesting content (culture, natural speech, children speech…). That's a lot of work and time to do this regularly but I would totally enjoy to do it as my job. Good for you and good for me. Does it sound interesting to you? Even if you are not willing to learn French now is it something you would be happy to use and to pay for in another language or later in French (assuming the content is really great of course)? Any piece of advice for me? Thanks a lot for everyone who could share ideas with me for this. I intend to spend a lot of time and money to launch this but first I must know if their is an interest. Merci ! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6012 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 14 02 July 2011 at 2:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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All I would say is this:
If you're making a podcast for learners, try to make it progressive. Introduce new vocabulary and phrases, and then re-use them. There is very little point in just recording random anecdotes with wildly differing vocabulary and hoping that people remember things. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| lingoleng Senior Member Germany Joined 5299 days ago 605 posts - 1290 votes | Message 3 of 14 02 July 2011 at 3:06pm | IP Logged | ||
Do you have any qualifications other than being a native speaker? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| PierreND Triglot Newbie France Joined 4895 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 14 02 July 2011 at 3:23pm | IP Logged | ||
That's a very good point. I plan to do the episodes like that. It is learning by repetition that worked for me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| PierreND Triglot Newbie France Joined 4895 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: Japanese | Message 5 of 14 02 July 2011 at 3:39pm | IP Logged | ||
I have no formal qualification for this, no diploma. I wonder if it exists. However I have informal qualifications: - I want to help people. I already gave private lessons. The podcast seems to me an extension. This is my possibility to reach more people. I have been helped by other podcasters. Now it is my turn to help. - I love to learn languages. I bet many others feel the same. That's a big motivation to develop this. People will be able to learn French with another media. - I heard many podcasts in different languages and from a lot of people. I have a good idea of what I liked in these podcasts, what was useful for me. I guess this will help me make something interesting and useful. - I have prepared an approximation of the time, ressource and money needed. I understand this podcast would need a lot of time for each episode to be good. I am willing to spend the necessary time. - I feel like I would do it even if not earning money. This is how motivated I am. - I enjoy new technology (well podcast is not that new) and I can use it. - I can work with other people. I will be helped when needed. My guess is that I am ready to launch in this creation. But to be more secure I want to ensure I am not missing something big and I want to be sure some people would be very interested in this podcast. This is why I ask you on this forum. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lingoleng Senior Member Germany Joined 5299 days ago 605 posts - 1290 votes | Message 6 of 14 02 July 2011 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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You love people, languages and have listened to podcasts. Guess I am not interested. Or I am just as interested in your work as a director, as I am sure you have watched some movies. Or as a composer, haven't you listened to music, too?
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| Faraday Senior Member United States Joined 6119 days ago 129 posts - 256 votes Speaks: German* | Message 7 of 14 02 July 2011 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Pierre, I, too, am a fan of podcasts. I would say that something that bothers me about many podcasts out there is
silly extended intros and useless chitchat. The most useful part of podcasts are the dialogue and transcripts. If there's going to be extraneous stuff, I would prefer that in a separate file, so that I can concentrate on the dialogue itself. Good luck with your undertaking. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7377 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 14 04 July 2011 at 9:49am | IP Logged | ||
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I took the liberty of restoring this message from the trash where it had been sent by fear of being spam after a request from the OP. We are flooded by spam these days so sometimes there can be false positives.
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