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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5393 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 1 of 6 18 May 2012 at 6:08pm | IP Logged |
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So one of my biggest time sucks from language learning and life in general is the
internet. I've tried browsing only in French before but it's just so hard knowing the great content that's out there contained within pretty, stylistically modern web sites. A great example would be this forum. I wanted to start this thread as a depository for any links to websites that challenge or even exceed their English counterparts in quality of content and, if possible, style/interface (it's just nice to feel like one hasn't gone back in time to the internet of the early 2000s or even the 1990s when browsing). It should be a website you'd freely choose over an English version on merit alone, or one you'd have no regrets using as a replacement. If there ends up being a good collection I'd be happy to curate. Official news sites, Wikepedia in other languages, etc are obvious choices. But to start off with, any suggestions for top language learning forums and blogs not in English? Here's a suggestion if you're in France On Va Sortir over Meetup: The site design leaves much to be desired but what I like is that you don't have to join groups so browsing and signing up for events are much easier. And it's easier to discover things you would have never thought of. Your French should be pretty strong though, as it's rare that you'll find other foreigners so if you still need a good amount of practice to get conversational you may want to create a conversation exchange event (or attend Polyglot Club or Couchsurfing events). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4861 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 2 of 6 18 May 2012 at 6:30pm | IP Logged |
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I hope it's not illegal to promote other forums here ;) But there are: Russian lingvoforum and Polish jezykotw (conlanger).
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| eggcluck Senior Member China Joined 4703 days ago 168 posts - 278 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 3 of 6 18 May 2012 at 6:51pm | IP Logged |
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Chinese news
Chinese you tube Chinese face book Chinese BBC Chinese MSN Chinese google Chinese Ebay/Amazon Chinese streaming Edited by eggcluck on 18 May 2012 at 6:52pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5393 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 4 of 6 14 July 2012 at 2:36pm | IP Logged |
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A French site with major addictive potential: Topito
It's made up of a bunch of articles in the format of Top 10 (or more) lists. Tons of geek culture, memes, pop culture, news, life tips, even lists on language use. Think Cracked in French. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4705 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 5 of 6 14 July 2012 at 8:15pm | IP Logged |
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Dutch TV - Uitzending Gemist
A well-designed website with scads and scads of current television programs for free. There is only one ad for each episode, and it's at the beginning. Many programs also have subtitles. Would that Hulu were this good! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4774 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 6 of 6 15 July 2012 at 1:55pm | IP Logged |
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Russian Facebook
Russian YouTube Russian Google Russian Amazon Russian WSJ/FT Russian Encyclopædia Dramatica (that has the advantage of, you know, still existing) Japanese Facebook (this one requires a valid Japanese mobile phone number to register, although I've heard of people bypassing that requirement by registering with a university email) Japanese YouTube (the major differences are that you can't watch anything without an account and that viewers' comments are scrolled on the screen at certain moments, giving it a livestream-like feel) Japanese BBC Japanese WSJ/FT Japanese DeviantArt Japanese 4chan (well, technically this one's the original) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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