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| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4623 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 29 17 April 2013 at 2:57pm | IP Logged |
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By watching televised sports in your target language, you have a visual reference and you hear the same terms being used in context, time and time again. Things tend to stick due to sheer repetition. Of course, you are only exploring a small subset of a language's vocabulary, but it does give you confidence at intermediate level, picking up new words and, more importantly, remembering them.
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| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4716 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 2 of 29 17 April 2013 at 3:16pm | IP Logged |
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I know that @Serpent does it a lot.
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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5263 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 3 of 29 17 April 2013 at 4:15pm | IP Logged |
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Serpent's got football covered, I am sure. Baseball is quite good for that in the US. "Un cuadrangular" or "un jonrón" = homerun. My favorite is "strike, tirándole" = strike, swinging. ESPN Deportes regularly shows games and El Nuevo Herald out of Miami has good baseball coverage. Some of my first exposure to Spanish was listening to baseball night games from Cuba in the winter on my transistor AM/MW radio on the mainland US. I know the rest of the world, with some notable exceptions, is into football/soccer, but in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Panamá, baseball is still most popular. Contrary to popular belief, baseball is a very international sport, not just in the US. Japanese, Spanish and Korean translators are often employed by US Major League Baseball teams. The most recent World Baseball Championship was played a month ago with the Dominican Republic defeating my neighboring island, Puerto Rico for the world crown.
Baseball is also popular in Korea, Japan and Taiwan. The Netherlands and Italy had surprisingly good showings in this year's WBC. There are plenty of links online for baseball vocabulary in other languages- such as French baseball vocabulary There used to be an MLB team in Montréal- The Expos. I think there may still be a minor league team in Québec. Vocabulario de béisbol- español Japanese Baseball Terms Korean Baseball Terms Take me out to the honkbalveld (your guide to Dutch baseball terms) Italian Baseball Baseball vocabulary Mandarin Blog do Beisebol- Brasil Vocabulário while not very popular in Brazil (futebol rules in Brazil) they did have a team in this year's World Baseball Championships. Speaking of futebol, Are you ready for some futebol- NYT article appeared recently in the New York Times. It's a travel article with a multimedia guide to football culture in Brazil- for gringos. Edited by iguanamon on 17 April 2013 at 5:56pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 4 of 29 17 April 2013 at 5:42pm | IP Logged |
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Being a hockey fan allows me to take in stuff in Czech, Finnish and Slovak considering that the associated countries have well-established and high-quality hockey teams.
hokej.cz (Czech) jatkoaika.com (Finnish) hokej.sk (Slovak) Not to mention that nhl.com (the league that I follow most) comes in Czech, Finnish and Slovak versions in addition to languages of other countries where hockey is a big deal if not the biggest one. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4522 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 5 of 29 17 April 2013 at 6:13pm | IP Logged |
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Is there a free Formula 1 livestream in Finnish?
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| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4637 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 6 of 29 17 April 2013 at 7:19pm | IP Logged |
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This thread makes me wonder why after all this time I haven't yet bothered to find a hockey station based in Quebec...
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| magictom123 Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5594 days ago 272 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 7 of 29 17 April 2013 at 8:39pm | IP Logged |
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I watch an awful lot of cycling in Italian and now my understanding of cycling commentary
in Italian is very, very high whereas the news and other things are an awful lot lower. I have found that when a term gets mentioned enough times I am intrigued enough to look it up. I have learnt many words that although are used in the context of cycling are handy to know anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5600 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 8 of 29 17 April 2013 at 10:55pm | IP Logged |
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One advantage of hearing sports commentary may be that you will never ever complain again that the recordings of your course book are way too fast...
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