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| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5871 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 1 of 5 22 March 2011 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Many parliaments and similar national institutions provide audio, video and textual broadcasts and archives of their main proceedings and the proceedings of committees, etc. Yes. Many language learners would find this material quite dry and boring. However, occasionally, especially during question periods and significant international and national events, things can get very animated and interesting. The material usually offers very good audio and very accurate text (i.e., parallel material). Countries that have two or more official languages often provide high quality multilingual material. For example, the House of Commons in Canada provides an extensive array of this type of material in French and English. One interesting approach that I have used is to record both the French and English versions of a debate, and play them back, one or two sentences at a time in alternating languages.
Because a huge amount of material is available, it takes a bit of work and patience to figure out how to get the material and how best to use it. I will provide below links to the House of Commons in Ottawa, Canada and the Tweede Kamer, in The Hague, Netherlands to provide starting point examples for French-English and Dutch. I suggest other members could add similar links for other languages. ENGLISH-FRENCH House of Commons, Ottawa, Canada Audio/Video 28 February 2011 http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/ParlVu/ContentEntityDetailView.aspx ?ContentEntityId=7443 Transcript 28 Feb 2011 http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?pu b=hansard&mee=135&parl=40&ses=3&language=E#Int-3764600 NEDERLANDS Tweede Kamer, Den Haag, Nederland Audio/Video 17 Maart 2011 http://debatgemist.tweedekamer.nl/Player/?mid=431 Verslagen 17 Maart 2011 http://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/verslagen/plenaire_ve rgadering_17_maart_2011.jsp#0 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5852 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 2 of 5 22 March 2011 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks a lot for these links to recordings of parliament, especially for those of "Tweede Kamer" in the Netherlands.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5386 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 3 of 5 22 March 2011 at 8:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Namke has a good post on learning Québec French from the Assemblée nationale website.
http://emsjuwel.com/learn.quebec.french/2011/02/02/learn-que bec-french-business-accent-the-parliament/ 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6708 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 5 23 March 2011 at 12:29am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm aware that for instance the European Union spits out humonguous amounts of parallel texts and maybe it probably also publishes podcasts or transmissions, but it doesn't help - I'm not enough of a masochist to listen to or read to that stuff. It is boring and it makes me depressed.
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| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5871 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 5 of 5 23 March 2011 at 1:43am | IP Logged | ||
Yes. I think that most of the material is like that. But parts of it can be very animated and interesting, if you can find it. The Dutch site has a good search facility and I expect most others have good search also. I am particularly interested in the debate in The Netherlands and Canada on the Joint Strike Fighter and so far have found the recent Dutch 'emergency debate' on the issue. When the cost may go from $16B to $29B, (or similar euro costs) of taxpayers' money, now that makes for a good debate. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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