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| Kai Newbie United States Joined 3963 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Icelandic, Greek, Indonesian, Hawaiian, Welsh, French | Message 1 of 20 19 May 2014 at 12:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm interested in a lot of languages, right now I'm just focusing on French and Hawaiian
but for future reference I was wondering which languages have a lot of media? Partly so that I could narrow down what languages I want to learn next. Hawaiian obviously doesn't have much media, I can't even find any songs sung in Hawaiian, but I love the language and culture enough that it doesn't bother me much. So it's not the be-all and end-all for learning a language for me but it's definitely useful to know. For instance, I think Norwegian has a lot of media - or literature at least - that would interest me. I've heard there's a lot of fantasy novels printed in Norwegian (whether they're easily accessible/not expensive to buy, I don't know) so that's helpful to know and maybe Norwegian goes up on my target list for that. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5599 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes  | Message 2 of 20 19 May 2014 at 1:00pm | IP Logged | ||
Well, Norwegian books will cost you and arm and a leg, for sure. That land is expensive. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sterogyl Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4367 days ago 152 posts - 263 votes Studies: German*, French, EnglishC2 Studies: Japanese, Norwegian | Message 3 of 20 19 May 2014 at 1:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Chinese has lots of media. Chinese audio books and books in general are super cheap. Chinese movies can be found en masse on youtube & co. Many have Chinese and/or English subtitles. Tons of Chinese e-books can be found on the net, too. Edited by Sterogyl on 19 May 2014 at 1:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5100 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 4 of 20 19 May 2014 at 1:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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German has lots of free online resources. Chief
among them is probably Deutsche Welle. Its easy to find alot of news sources and there are many tv shows and movies as well (I dont usually need to look further than YouTube). Its not as easy for us US residents to find German dvds as say French ones, but it's not terribly difficult either. I suppose German literature needs no introduction, but I'm finding that alot of English books are available in German and they are often easier to find (for me at least) and cheaper to aquire than French translations. Edited by Darklight1216 on 19 May 2014 at 1:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7205 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 5 of 20 19 May 2014 at 1:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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There is a lot out there for French and Spanish. I suspect that if one is "planning for the future", almost every
language will have a ton of resources available. That's just the nature of the beast. As time rolls on, more and more will be put online. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5100 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 6 of 20 19 May 2014 at 1:55pm | IP Logged | ||
I have to disagree with that. Lots of languages (around half of all of them, according to some sources) are growing closer to extinction as we type. The top 50 or so spoken languages might follow the trend that you suggested but I have trouble believing that anything close to "almost every" language will. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4253 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 7 of 20 19 May 2014 at 2:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Any language that is the official language of a nation has a lot of media and some others that aren't can still have quite a lot of media.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 8 of 20 19 May 2014 at 2:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Romanian. Underrated but has got lots of media and film. Edited by tarvos on 19 May 2014 at 2:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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