DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6526 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu
| Message 1 of 10 25 May 2011 at 3:05am | IP Logged |
I was wondering if anyone know of any sites were you can access videos intended to
support students and/or adults with education, in topics like Geography, History, Social
Sciences and other Humanities, in any language. I have seen a number of online
university-level video lecture series in Spanish, from a university in Puerto Rico I
think, although I don't remember on which site. These could be really good language
resources for intermediate/advanced students, and you might learn about something new
also.
Edited by DavidW on 25 May 2011 at 3:05am
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Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh
| Message 2 of 10 25 May 2011 at 9:59am | IP Logged |
The best place to start is the OpenCourseWare Consortium homepage, which links to most of the universities offering free course materials. Some of these include video lectures etc.
You should also have a look at iTunesU -- university materials on iTunes.
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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 3 of 10 25 May 2011 at 10:09am | IP Logged |
Probably not what exactly you're looking for, but may be useful to others:
Videos teaching Chinese in Spanish
Videos teaching Chinese in Korean
Videos teaching Korean in Chinese
Videos teaching Korean in Japanese
This probably doesn't count, but:
A crapload of videos teaching extremely complicated science and engineering in heavily-accented Indian English
Edited by nway on 25 May 2011 at 10:17am
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dleewo Groupie United States Joined 5818 days ago 95 posts - 131 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin
| Message 4 of 10 25 May 2011 at 2:13pm | IP Logged |
Khan Academy is a great resources, but he doesn't have any language learning videos:
Khan Academy
These are in English only though
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DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6526 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu
| Message 5 of 10 25 May 2011 at 7:20pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for the links. I was aware of OCW, iTunes U and NPTEL (incredible resource for
engineering, the accents vary but you get used to it). I was looking for resources in
languages other than English, sorry, I should have made that clear. And in particular,
materials intended for native speakers, teaching humanities. There are many government
sites around the world putting up materials to help schoolchildren, I suppose it's just a
matter of time until some start to include substantial video content. I attended lectures
for a while at a university in France (Geography, History, Philosophy.. 'culture 'g'')
when my French was already not bad, it was really helpful, probably moreso even than many
French language classes for advanced students.
Edited by DavidW on 25 May 2011 at 7:27pm
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seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7132 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek
| Message 6 of 10 25 May 2011 at 7:36pm | IP Logged |
You may have already done this, but just in case you haven't, have you tried changing
your iTunes account to French (at the bottom of the screen there's a link for changing
countries)and then looking at what's available on iTunes University?
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DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6526 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu
| Message 7 of 10 26 May 2011 at 5:05pm | IP Logged |
Thanks, I'll give that a try (have to install iTunes first..)
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Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5828 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French
| Message 8 of 10 26 May 2011 at 8:12pm | IP Logged |
Related to the OP's question, does anyone know of a website where I could find documentaries, preferably science
ones, in foreign languages? Japanese or French preferably but anything is good. Netflix has a frustratingly small
selection.
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