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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6002 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 9 of 14 03 November 2010 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The problem would be splitting the airtime between multiple languages. As certain less popular languages get pushed to unsocial timeslots (while we're all at work or in bed), and we all resort to recording the programmes, we'll start to question why we need a "channel" at all -- after all, if no-one's watching "real-time", surely on-line distribution makes more sense? And then we get out of the idea of a "channel", because are you really going to pay a subscription to see all the material when only one language really interests you? And because it's a pay-per-view, the smaller languages don't get subsidised by the profitable ones and *poof*... you're left with a video-on-demand site for watching documentaries in English, French, Spanish, German and Chinese.
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| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5640 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 10 of 14 03 November 2010 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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mysoju, dramacrazy, dramafever (they have a few Japanese dramas, mainly Korean), drama style, d-addicts, AM Addiction. All of these sites are Asian drama sites in general.
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| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6910 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 11 of 14 04 November 2010 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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There used to be such as channel. It was called "The International Channel" and was available by satellite. However, it switched its format and its name to become AZN TV and now focuses on Asian and Asian-American culture.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5372 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 12 of 14 04 November 2010 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
Ditto that, for Japanese. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Old Chemist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5164 days ago 227 posts - 285 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 13 of 14 07 November 2010 at 11:24am | IP Logged | |||||
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I am in two minds about a language channel - on the one hand, I think there is much in favour of having a language channel, a visual version of podcasts with appropriate level indicated, perhaps, and on the other I feel there would be many people like me who would get absorbed in the actual content, rather than using it for language learning as well. This can easily happen with some of the exquisitely made foreign language films, they become solely entertainment.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5838 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 14 of 14 09 November 2010 at 3:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The Dutch educative program "TELEAC" offered every year some excellent language courses in a variety of languages. With these there were also some radio lessons and interesteds language learners could order the textbooks with the audio cassettes. The TV lessons occurred one a week.
For many years I can't receive the Dutch TV channel anymore, where "TELEAC" broadcasts these courses, so I am not informed about the present status of this language learning possibility. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 09 November 2010 at 3:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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