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| kchopping Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5150 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Studies: French | Message 1 of 6 06 November 2010 at 6:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Has anyone found Yabla or other online video services useful , like Frenchpod ?
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| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7105 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 2 of 6 06 November 2010 at 11:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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In my personal opinion, Yabla is one of best listening comprehension resources out there. I've used the French version in the past and just signed up for German. Du hast den schönsten Arsch der Welt was a eye-opener.
edit: of course, it's difficult to have a non-personal opinion Edited by Andy E on 06 November 2010 at 11:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7105 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 3 of 6 07 November 2010 at 12:02am | IP Logged | ||
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I should qualify my above post somewhat, (in terms of what I think Yabla lacks). The following is an email I sent them back in August:
I'm a recent subscriber since moving from a job (several years of a long commute) which gave me no spare time to take advantage of your site. Using your French videos has been invaluable in improving my French comprehension. However, if I may be so bold, there are two improvements I would find really useful in the player. The first is finer control over the pitch-corrected slow-down. "Slow" is too slow but occasionally normal is too fast. I make a lot of use of the VLC Media Player in my language studies for both audio and video. It also permits changing the playback rate but in 10% increments via hotkeys ("[" = -10%, "]" = +10%). Running at 80% sounds and looks almost normal but makes a big difference in the comprehension of rapid speech. I repeat the resources more than once moving the speed back up to 100% by the end. For example, I've just downloaded "La Conspiration du Orion" from the filmmaker's site and I'm using your transcript to work through it (currently at 80% speed). The ability to do the same with Yabla videos would be invaluable. The second would be to allow more flexible looping. Often the phrase breaks happen in unnatural (in terms of speech) places - I assume to keep the individual phrases from being too long. It would be useful to be able to mark an In point (start of one phrase) and an Out point (end of another) and loop between the two. Often it's small sections within a video resource that I have trouble with and it would be helpful to set up a loop that concentrates on the problem area rather than an individual phrase at a time. I got the following reply: Hi Andy, Thanks so much for your feedback. Those are great suggestions. I'll forward your ideas to our programming team. So glad to hear you're finding the site useful. Thanks for writing! The above, I believe, would be an invaluable improvement to their player. Edited by Andy E on 07 November 2010 at 12:04am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5383 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 4 of 6 08 November 2010 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would LOVE to have Yabla in Japanese -- and yes, I've written to them about it before.
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| Aihe Newbie United States Joined 5520 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, Japanese, Finnish, Mandarin | Message 5 of 6 10 November 2010 at 7:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Arekkusu, do you know about Erin's Challenge? https://www.erin.ne.jp/en/
It's very similar to Yabla, and it's free. There are various lesson topics, and each topic has a beginner lesson, and an advanced lesson. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5383 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 6 of 6 10 November 2010 at 4:04pm | IP Logged | ||
Aihe, no I didn't! Thanks for pointing it out! However, I just had a look at it only seems to reach about intermediate level. Moreover, it's quite a ways from what Yabla actually does. There are lots of Japanese learners out there, I'm surprized no one's replicated their model for Japanese. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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