Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5694 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish
| Message 1 of 24 27 February 2011 at 1:37am | IP Logged |
I've noticed that in various threads throughout the forum, many people have posted links to language-learning courses they've found on YouTube. Some of these courses seem to be really well-made, and I thought it might be useful to collect as many of these as we could in one place. I haven't used any YouTube language courses myself yet, so I can't really speak to the quality of any of them, but it does seem to me that if you just search "learn [language name]" on YT, most of the results that come up are relatively low-quality, home-made type things. It might be useful to people to see if we can locate the video-courses which stand out from the crowd, and collect them all in that spot.
So this is a call to anyone who's found particularly good language lessons on YouTube – comment with a link to the channel, and I'll add everything to a main list here in the first post. If we pay attention to quality, this could turn into a really worthwhile resource.
I'll start by collecting a few links I've seen posted other places in the forum (and therefore assume to be good).
ARABIC
Sheikh Yusuf Estes
Azerbaijani
Azerbaijani Spiderman Teaches You
BIBLICAL HEBREW
Biblical Hebrew
DARI
DARI
FRENCH
Walk, Talk, and Learn French
GERMAN
Learn German from LinguaTV
Easy German
JAPANESE
Let's Learn Japanese
KOREAN
Learn to Read and Write Hangul
Let's Speak Korean (old version)
Alphabet
Kurdish (Kurmanji dialect):
Kurdish
LATIN
Latinum course
Luxembourgish
Luxdico
Norwegian
Crienexzy
Polish
Abc School Of Polish
MrRealPolish
MrPolishLanguage
Po Prostu po Polsku
SWAHILI
Kenya Mission Swahili lessons
kulmansam
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
Professsor Jason Spanish and Portuguese
TAGALOG
Bud Brown teaches Tagalog
TAMIL
Learn Tamil
Edited by newyorkeric on 12 May 2011 at 3:36pm
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tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5867 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 2 of 24 19 March 2011 at 6:53pm | IP Logged |
Dutch
Rather than a specific link, I find that it useful to search for specific words. The two that I find to be the most useful for Dutch are: Rijnmond and aflevering (separately).
Rijnmond brings up recent and archived Rijnmond Nieuws and other related videos, often with embedded and downloadable closed captions (CC). After the search, do a Search Options with things like CC and/or 'today', 'this week' this month'.
Aflevering produces various series episodes, many with CC.
Other search terms that bring up good material are "vergeten verhalen" and separately 'Rotterdamer', again with CC.
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Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5694 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish
| Message 3 of 24 17 April 2011 at 12:58am | IP Logged |
Bump! Anyone else got any suggestions to add to this thread?
ETA: I know I said I'd add everything to the first post, but I forget that you can't edit after a while. So let's just add our own links and make the whole thread be the resource.
Edited by Jinx on 17 April 2011 at 4:41pm
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daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7145 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek
| Message 4 of 24 17 April 2011 at 3:41pm | IP Logged |
Kurdish (Kurmanji dialect): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXr8vX40VZk&feature=related
60-some lessons so far, professionally done in studio, with good audio and graphics, each lasting about 12 minutes.
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Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5730 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto
| Message 5 of 24 17 April 2011 at 9:45pm | IP Logged |
Esperanto
Pasporto Al La Tuta Mondo: Campy, but it's low-budget educational TV, so what do you expect, LOL. Each part is about an hour and 45 minutes long, and there are 13 lessons in all in 4 parts.
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVyut5BV3kE
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiiUM-zYMog&feature=related
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXbgUZrdKvU&feature=related
Part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj6V33ewch8&feature=related
Also the intermediate level course Gerda Malaperis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GGdi_nFQA0&feature=related
If the above links don't work, the user who posted all this is Masoris:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Masoris
Go under his playlists and select Filmegoj en Esperanto, which also has 6 other films in Esperanto.
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juman Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5219 days ago 101 posts - 129 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: French
| Message 6 of 24 17 April 2011 at 10:19pm | IP Logged |
Jinx wrote:
FRENCH
Walk, Talk, and Learn French: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Aploosh
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I could not find anything at this link but the first episode can be found here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=8cBUxZi6Ocg
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Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5694 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish
| Message 7 of 24 17 April 2011 at 11:19pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for the update on the French course, juman!
Fantastic links, everybody, let's keep 'em coming!
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getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5472 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch
| Message 8 of 24 18 April 2011 at 3:01am | IP Logged |
The following video explains the Korean alphabet exploiting its 'featural alphabet' features, that is, the idea that the alphabet was designed in such a way that the shape of the letters is related to the way the sounds are pronounced in the mouth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS-t9T3Bt-4
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