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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5382 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 1 of 4 30 August 2012 at 4:15am | IP Logged |
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I mentioned in my log how much I like reading nonfiction for learning languages since you learn a lot of useful vocabulary and ways of talking about interesting subjects. I've also been thinking of nonfiction video (other than "trashy" reality TV): documentaries, educational videos, lectures, and even some reality TV that has a documentary aspect.
In French one I like a lot is Le Dessous des Cartes, a show with short lectures about geopolitics illustrated with maps (they publish an atlas as well). It's on the Arte channel which isn't visible outside of France but it's on DVD, comes on TV5 Monde, and you can find the videos posted on other video sites. A popular series for kids (though still interesting for adults) is C'est Pas Sorcier and when I had TV5 Monde I saw many others as well. In English there are sites with free streaming documentaries (granted, many of them have a strong political bent) such as Documentary Heaven and it'd be nice to find similar resources for other languages. There are the TedTalks, of course, which are in English but have subtitles translated into many languages. Any other recommendations? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6430 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 4 30 August 2012 at 5:04am | IP Logged |
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The OpenCourseWare Consortium has free university lectures, with an emphasis on science. You canbrowse by language, although it's a little buggy. This page has links to content in Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. If you browse around more, you'll find other languages like Finnish too.
For German, there's the Tübinger Internet Multimedia Server, which is sometimes considered to have spawned OpenCourseWare, back in the 1990s. For somewhat more casual German, there's a good list of videos, which includes things like astronomy, history, and biology for kids. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5382 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 3 of 4 30 August 2012 at 5:50am | IP Logged |
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Some great resources, especially the OpenCourseWare Consortium!
(I like that blog with the video list as well). Another addition for popular educational: A series based on the bestseller Metronome which is a history of Paris based on its metro stations is now out on DVD (region 2). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Majka Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic kofoholici.wordpress Joined 4648 days ago 307 posts - 755 votes Speaks: Czech*, German, English Studies: French Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 4 30 August 2012 at 9:35am | IP Logged |
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For French and probably other languages as well, there is also the old "Il était une fois..." series for children. Actually, there are sever series (l’Homme, l’Espace, la Vie, les Amériques, les Découvreurs, les Explorateurs, notre Terre).
I can remember having to watch the "la Vie" part for my human biology homework. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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