nhk9 Senior Member Canada Joined 6802 days ago 290 posts - 319 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 1 of 28 26 April 2006 at 1:41am | IP Logged |
For English, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and French
http://www.nhk.or.jp/rj/index_e.html
Includes current news broadcast with verbatim transcripts for English, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and French (all spoken by native speakers)
For Japanese
http://news.tbs.co.jp/index-j.htm
Japanese news with verbatim transcripts (for kanji, use a service like rikai.com to obtain the readings)
For German
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/index.asp ?nyheter=1&ProgramID=2108
International & Swedish news in German with full transcript (click on "Sendung anhören" for the sound file, and "Nachrichtenseite" for the transcript)
For (more) Korean
http://news.kbs.co.kr/newsplaza/
Korean Broadcasting with videos and verbatim transcripts (You will need to click on the little buttons with a TV clipart. Note that only the articles with the name of the reporter, ie ...기자, have transcripts)
From geranio99:
For Russian
http://www.gwu.edu/~slavic/webcast/
These webcasts are posted to the web bi-weekly in simplified standard Russian. The news itself is taken from a number of Russian sites, including Lenta.Ru, Vesti.Ru, Ytro.ru and other authentic sites. Apart from the transcripts, you can also find exercises for pre-listening, vocabulary and post-listening support.
For Finnish
http://www.yle.fi/radiopeili/sivu.php?uname=selkouutiset#sp ecialfinnish
Five minute broadcasts which cover items of current interest, in Special Finnish, easy language and slower delivery.
ALSO, I am looking for sites with transcripts to news broadcasts (or other materials) in verbatim Swedish. I know that Sverige Television has some videos, but the articles there are not in verbatim so I am usually at a loss watching the videos. If any of you guys know good sites for Swedish news with transcripts and is really to share it, please let me know! Thanks!
nhk9
PS If you know any other websites with good sound files in any language, please share with us.
Edited by nhk9 on 27 April 2006 at 5:27pm
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Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7101 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French
| Message 2 of 28 26 April 2006 at 2:56am | IP Logged |
Excellent link! Accurate transcripts, multi-format audio and an RSS podcast link.
Thanks.
Andy.
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administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7374 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map
| Message 3 of 28 26 April 2006 at 3:35am | IP Logged |
Amazing ressource, thanks!
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Niall Gallagher Groupie Ireland Joined 7133 days ago 81 posts - 81 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 4 of 28 26 April 2006 at 4:20am | IP Logged |
What's the best way to use these resources? I've seen fanatic mention before that one way he does it, I think a la Assimil, is to simply listen and read along with the text. I've just done this with the Spanish section for the first link, but what skills will this specifically improve?
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Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7101 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French
| Message 5 of 28 26 April 2006 at 5:50am | IP Logged |
Niall Gallagher wrote:
What's the best way to use these resources? I've seen fanatic mention before that one way he does it, I think a la Assimil, is to simply listen and read along with the text. I've just done this with the Spanish section for the first link, but what skills will this specifically improve? |
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Well, my purpose in using such resources is to improve Aural Comprehension. The advantage of having an accurate transcript is that it allows you to check any words or phrases that you didn't understand or didn't catch.
My goal with such recordings (and I do the same with EuroNews which has the odious Real Audio format) is to understand everything that's being said without the transcript.
So I listen to an entire news item along with the transcript looking up anything I'm not sure of then I listen to it again with the transcript, then I listen to it a couple of times concentrating on the speech but with occasional glances at the transcript if required and finally I attempt to listen to the lot a couple of times with no "cheating" at all.
Andy.
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andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7075 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French
| Message 6 of 28 26 April 2006 at 5:50am | IP Logged |
Brilliant!
I've been trying to find a Korean newscast with transcripts for quite some time. Thanks heaps.
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7013 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 7 of 28 26 April 2006 at 5:58am | IP Logged |
Thanks for a great link.
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Niall Gallagher Groupie Ireland Joined 7133 days ago 81 posts - 81 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 8 of 28 26 April 2006 at 9:25am | IP Logged |
Thanks Andy. The gTranslate Firefox plugin is perfect to use with those transcripts!
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