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| JasonE Groupie Canada Joined 5071 days ago 54 posts - 78 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 1 of 7 11 February 2011 at 8:38pm | IP Logged |
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For those who don't know The Teaching Company, they are a company in the US
which sells audio and video lectures of university level courses on a wide range of subjects. Their courses are of extremely high quality and I've been listening to as many as I can since I discovered them last year. I highly recommend them. That being said, I much prefer spending my time listening to their lectures than I do studying languages. To say such a thing on a language forum is heresy I know, but I could merge these two interests if someone could point me in the direction of an equivalent company or university that offers audio/video courses in foreign languages. In particular, online lectures in French, German, or Spanish would be greatly appreciated. Paid or free. For those learning English, be sure to check these courses out. Each course goes on sale once a year (about 70% off) and with the diversity of courses offered, there is sure to be something that interests you. (I am not affiliated with the Teaching Company in any way, I just love their stuff and I try to recommend them to anyone who will listen!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dmaddock1 Senior Member United States Joined 5434 days ago 174 posts - 426 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Esperanto, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 2 of 7 11 February 2011 at 9:50pm | IP Logged |
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I couldn't agree more! Unfortunately for me, such content is nigh impossible to find for my current languages, Esperanto and Classical Greek.
However, videolectures.net does list many online lectures in languages other than English. According to their browse page, here's what they currently have: English (9855) Slovenian (1167) French (52) German (12) Dutch (20) Croatian (46) Other... (61) d. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| JasonE Groupie Canada Joined 5071 days ago 54 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 3 of 7 11 February 2011 at 10:03pm | IP Logged |
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Very cool resource. I'll definitely bookmark it and see what I can find on it. Anyone else?
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| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5730 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 4 of 7 11 February 2011 at 10:12pm | IP Logged |
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I don't know if you'd call it an equivalent, but ted.com has lectures that you can read different subtitles on, but I think you want to listen to the actual lecture in a target language.
One blogger I like follows TED and displays the stats for the different languages every few months (it's pagef30.com if you're interested) and there is a surprisingly large amount for Bulgarian, it was the second most translated language for a time, and may be currently. Here's the list of subtitled videos: http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/286 French: 817 (divided between Canadian & Parisian) German: 493 Spanish: 814 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| JasonE Groupie Canada Joined 5071 days ago 54 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 5 of 7 11 February 2011 at 10:20pm | IP Logged |
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I finally decided to change my computer settings to French, which is the language I am studying most seriously
now, and am browsing through the French language podcasts in the iTunes store. The only problem with this is that it is much easier to browse for a given language if the whole computer is set for that language, so if I want to browse for German material I would have to switch my computer to German. Oh well, another good source found. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JasonE Groupie Canada Joined 5071 days ago 54 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 6 of 7 11 February 2011 at 10:46pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks Michael, I'm a huge TED fan but I didn't think of turning on subs in a different language. I gave tried it for
one video, and I think that it'll be great for improving my reading ability. Argh, one negative side effect of changing my computer to using french is that now all my English text has red lines underneath from the spell checker. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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