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| maecenas Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5548 days ago 21 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: French, Portuguese, Persian | Message 9 of 15 07 May 2011 at 2:06am | IP Logged |
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No, haven't seen that one- I'll definitely check it out. Thanks.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 10 of 15 18 June 2011 at 1:58am | IP Logged |
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I liked Radio D, especially the explanations by the "professor", but there are a lot of
gaps. It was only meant to be supplemental. I've listened to the first 5 chapters of Mission Paris (the French version) and it is pretty light on content. But again, maybe a light diversion. Episodes are only 5 minutes (compared to 18-20 minutes for Radio D). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5728 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 11 of 15 21 June 2011 at 3:36am | IP Logged |
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I liked Deutsch - Warum Nicht? when I was using it a few months ago. It was my first serious attempt at learning German, but I only got through the first level, and listened to a little of the 2nd.
I didn't listen to Radio D, because I heard about Deutsche Welle's language programs throught this blogger and he thought the characters were annoying, especially Kompu. The one redeeming quality he saw in the program was that there is a complete transcript in the languages it is offered in, so if you're studying Romanian or Bulgarian or another less commonly studied European that DW offers the course in you can use the program for listening practice, while for D-WN? you only get the explanatory notes and key words in the target language (not German, the more unusual language you might want to study with German). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| delta910 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5874 days ago 267 posts - 313 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, German | Message 12 of 15 21 June 2011 at 8:52am | IP Logged |
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I would say that there are two very good pieces of content on that site. The first would have to be the Warum Nicht
course. I have only dabbled in this course a bit here and there. It is great if you want a free course on the web. The one thing I didn't like about it was the audio. Another piece of content was the telenovela called Jojo sucht das Glück. I really like this because it is swift conversation and most episodes are very short. Some of the other courses I just wasn't interested in or I found it not up to par to what I would have liked. Overall, I highly recommend this site to help learn German. It has helped me in a lot of my understanding! If you want a good online free course, this is it, or at least one of them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6902 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 13 of 15 25 June 2011 at 6:03pm | IP Logged |
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Personally, I loved "Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten" - that's great for those who are
already quite advanced but still struggle to understand news in the normal speech rate. Top-Thema is nice as well. As for the materials for beginners, I tried once "Mission Europe" for French and found it much too slow-paced. Edited by Julie on 25 June 2011 at 6:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 14 of 15 25 June 2011 at 6:06pm | IP Logged |
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Is there anything like this in French? The RF site has Mission Paris, which is slow and doesn't actually teach much, and a couple of other radio plays like it. But they have nothing like the wealth of materials found on DW's website.
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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6902 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 15 of 15 25 June 2011 at 7:04pm | IP Logged |
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I have yet to find something as great as DW's website but I can recommend at least two
sources: http://www.rfi.fr/lffr/statiques/accueil_apprendre.asp (I like Le journal en français facile but I haven't used the language courses from there - that's what you meant, didn't you?) http://www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/lf/p-7174-Langue-f rancaise.htm - quite a lot of interesting stuff, I like the news again. The website is not very well-structured and it usually takes me some time to find what I need but it's worth the effort. If you happen to know something more, please let me know :). // EDIT BBC materials for learning French are quite nice, Edited by Julie on 25 June 2011 at 7:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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