boudouris Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4617 days ago 12 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Greek, Indonesian, French, Mandarin
| Message 1 of 5 06 April 2012 at 12:45am | IP Logged |
Does anyone know of a website where that has both texts and audio read by native speakers
for Brazilian Portuguese.
I've been using a very good one for German that I would recommend, the Deutsche Welle
"Sprachbar" page (Link http://www.dw.de/dw/0,,9011,00.html) and I would like to find one
with a similar format for Portuguese.
I would also be interested if anyone knows of one for Modern Greek, Spanish, or Italian.
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iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5260 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French)
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Brazilian Portuguese: Latest podcast with script from Café Brasil- Agora é Tarde by Luciano Pires. To read the script click "Continue lendo o roteiro". The podcasts are updated weekly and all the archives are available with transcripts. Café Brasil is about many diverse life and cultural aspects interspersed with classic Brazilian music. To me, it's one of the best podcasts in any language.
Another site, that unfortunately hasn't updated its podcasts since December, 2011, is Escriba Café. This podcast is about history, and not just history of Brazil but also such topics as Jack the Ripper and the Vietnam War. Transcripts are available.
News: NHK World Portuguese. Click on the link "Ler mais" the articles go in order generally from left to right. Click the audio link and each story link as it comes. You can also get almost the same news in Spanish. The Portuguese speakers all have Bazilian/Paulista accents. What does Japan have to do with Portuguese? Japan has a large population of Japanese-Brazilian immigrants. Some say that São Paulo is the largest Japanese city outside of Japan.
If you're not too hung up on only having Brazilian Portuguese, Deutsche Welle- Learning By Ear/ Aprender de ouvido has a great selection of "radionovelas" in African Portuguese intended for Lusophone Africa. Each 10 minute or so podcast has a transcript and if you go to their English site, there is the possibility of making your own bilingual texts. In addition to Portuguese and English, the LBE series is also available in French, Amharic, Hausa and Swahili. The language is more conversational and not overly complicated. I concentrated on Brazilian Portuguese but in a widespread language with many variants, I like to be at least familiar with as many as possible.
One of the best LR sites is Librivox.org. Librivox has public domain audiobooks with e-text available. All are human-read. On the Portuguese site, the readers are overwhelmingly Brazilian. Other languages are also available. you'll figure it out.
All of the above are downloadable in mp3 format. You can copy and paste text into a word doc and print them to pdf, or leave it in word. Move the whole lot over to a tablet and you have LR at your leisure. Convert the text with Calibre and use it with your integrated Kindle dictionary.
Edited by iguanamon on 06 April 2012 at 4:03am
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
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That's not everyone's cup of tea (and not really mine anymore) but the various audio Bible sites have a lot of recordings in Portuguese.
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kenshin Triglot Newbie Taiwan Joined 5028 days ago 17 posts - 34 votes Speaks: Taiwanese, Mandarin*, English Studies: Japanese, German, French
| Message 4 of 5 06 April 2012 at 11:37am | IP Logged |
You could also try RhinoSpike, where you can upload your
own text asking native speakers to record it for you. Their website currently has plenty
of audio files along with texts in various languages, including Spanish, Portuguese,
Greek..and lots more.
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Danac Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5346 days ago 162 posts - 257 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, Serbo-Croatian, French, Russian, Esperanto
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The University of Texas has 2 great resources for Spanish and Portuguese. They both
consist of audio, transcripts in the original language and an English translation.
Spanish Proficiency Exercises
Portuguese Communication
Exercises
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