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| aquablue Senior Member United States Joined 6373 days ago 150 posts - 172 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 1 of 27 20 February 2010 at 1:20am | IP Logged | ||
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I live in the USA. Anybody know where I can watch (I will gladly pay)French TV online for soap operas, comedys? Which web sites allow access, with payment, to the more popular French channels that have all the soaps, comedies, etc.. with French captions?
My problems is this: I wish to watch and learn French dialog as spoken in popular shows and serials, but I can't buy these shows b/c they are unavailable in the USA on DVD. I would like French subs to help me learn. Please Help! Aqua 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6910 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 27 20 February 2010 at 1:29am | IP Logged | ||
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Verizon Fios offers a French TV channel: TV Monde
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| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6113 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 3 of 27 20 February 2010 at 1:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Check your cable provider TV5Monde is available on many of them. I have it and pay $9 per month:
http://www.tv5.org/locaux/usa/ Here is the on-line version: http://www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/Information_2009/p -1909-L_actualite_en_video.htm?jt=jt_monde 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6519 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 4 of 27 20 February 2010 at 5:27am | IP Logged | ||
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I've bought Seinfeld DVDs (LatAm version). They have the audio and the subtitles in
Spanish, English and French (and additional subtitles in Brazilian Portuguese). [9 seasons, 1 season = 24 chapters of 22 minutes] Boston Legal DVDs have the audio in French and English [5 seasons. 1season = 24 chapter of 44 mins] Have a nice day! Guido.- Edited by Guido on 20 February 2010 at 7:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vientito Senior Member Canada Joined 6329 days ago 212 posts - 281 votes | Message 5 of 27 20 February 2010 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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The original poster seems to have posed a very specific question: captioned programs on websites. As far as my limited experience is concerned, no such websites exist. Online video/audio broadcasting is in fact quite a recent endeavour on the part of broadcasters worldwide. It seems to me that industry (with due attention to their bottomline) has totally neglected a need for hearing-impaired to access their online media, and for that matter, students of foreign language as well.
It does not seem that hard technically since most of the programs have already been viewed by TV audience and transliteration has mostly been done by then. It always amazes me that industry as a whole acts more like a bunch of sheeps - they only do what they see others are doing and refrain from innovation. Or perhaps innovation, emblematic of a profit-obsessed trait, largely stems from a consideration of market demand. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5857 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 6 of 27 20 February 2010 at 5:23pm | IP Logged | ||
They exist in Dutch since 4 June 2009. A number of public broadcaster programs are available now and more are being added. Many are very good, with very good Dutch sub-titles. http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/ A couple of good ones are Blauw Bloed and De Oorlog. A short explanation is available in English at: http://www.2bdutch.nl/component/option,com_myblog/show,Watch -Dutch-videos-with-subtitles-at-uitzendinggemist.nl.html/Ite mid,89/lang,/ Note the challenges to get some browsers to show the sub-titles. Some browser add-ons may be required. This resource is going to be a great benefit to Dutch learners. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aquablue Senior Member United States Joined 6373 days ago 150 posts - 172 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 7 of 27 20 February 2010 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ok, thanks. I have TV5Monde. The problem is, many popular soaps have no French captions. Some movies do however. The shows I'm interested in are Plus Belle La Vie, Sous le soleil, and other dialog rich shows. These are not available on DVD in the USA due to region encoding and many have no captions. However, I need captions for learning.
Failing that, can anybody reccommend me a good TOP 5 list of shows/soaps/comedies etc.. for learning dialog in french (on DVD, download, etc..)? I would like to have the French Subs and French Dialog (w/ English subs if possible) I'll look into Seinfeld, and other shows. However, I would prefer native shows. Thanks Aqua 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vientito Senior Member Canada Joined 6329 days ago 212 posts - 281 votes | Message 8 of 27 21 February 2010 at 12:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Well good for the dutch audience yet unfortunately the original poster is learning french.
I have yet to see anyone begin that in french. Maybe in a few years perhaps? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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