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| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6783 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes  Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 1 of 26 02 September 2011 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Not every language has to be taken seriously, right? Maybe you just feel like trying
something on an impulse. We have a bunch of people studying Slavic/Slavonic (which is the correct term?) languages. Can you conceive of learning another one of them just by listening? I'm up for a lazy try. (I don't mean "learn learn" of course, just train my listening enough so I can understand the spoken language.) If you study Russian, can you suggest some listening I could do? Whatever you think is most appropriate, it might have to be very basic. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5415 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 2 of 26 02 September 2011 at 6:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Erm...the Michel Thomas course?
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| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6783 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 3 of 26 02 September 2011 at 6:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, obviously. But I meant more along the lines of radio or something that's not
specifically a teaching material. Edited by numerodix on 02 September 2011 at 6:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5415 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 4 of 26 02 September 2011 at 6:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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My favorite source to hear Russian is, as oddly as it sounds, the Russian version of "NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN". It's a half-hour news segment covering global events that's updated every single day. It's actually available in 17 different languages (including English, so you can switch back and forth to attempt to find parallels in meaning).
I dragged-and-dropped it into my iTunes, but I believe you can stream it here: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/rj/podcast/mp3/russian.mp3 And this is the main web page: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/radio/program/16lang. html 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5320 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 5 of 26 02 September 2011 at 6:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you're looking for a MT alternative, you could give the Just Listen 'n Learn series a try. I have the Arabic one and I really like the concept of the course.
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| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6783 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 6 of 26 02 September 2011 at 6:46pm | IP Logged | ||
This is a really cool resource, just the kind of thing I was hoping for. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 7 of 26 02 September 2011 at 10:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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I downloaded the NHK language lessons which are also given in the different languages of instruction, which include Russian. The Russian in the recordings is quite good! It's very fast, but it's also the standardized newscast type of language that sounds very clear.
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| MarcusOdim Groupie Brazil Joined 4847 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes | Message 8 of 26 03 September 2011 at 4:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Michel Thomas is pretty cool, I loved his German course HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA freaking hilarious!!!!!!!!!! He sounded like he would kill his students hahahaha
rrrrrrrrright!!! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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