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| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5781 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 1 of 6 01 April 2013 at 10:36pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Not sure if this is the right room, but it's the best fit I can find.
Recently I saw Dora the explorer in the iTunes store of the country of one of my TL's at a very reasonable price. Never having bought anything from iTunes before and apparently being a naive moron, I bought a £25 iTunes gift voucher in order to purchase some episodes. Most of you no doubt know (as I just found out) that I can only buy things from the UK iTunes store using this voucher due to licencing laws (and they wonder why people turn to illegal downloads). While I'll certainly not make this mistake again, £25 represents just under 2 weeks worth of disposable income for me (not a trivial amount of time to have wasted), so I'm looking for suggestions as to what the hell I can buy from the UK iTunes store that will be useful for any of my TL's: German, Portuguese (either dialect), Mandarin, Modern Greek. I'm especially interested in anything for European Portuguese. I'm not interested in Pimsleur. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. :-( Edited by Random review on 01 April 2013 at 10:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5260 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 2 of 6 01 April 2013 at 11:01pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Random, I can't help you with languages other than Portuguese, or with iTunes. For Euro Portuguese I recommend the freeCentro Virtual Camões Aprender Português. They have a reading section with audio going from beginner to advanced under the "Ler" section. I recommend you start with Era uma vez um rei.
Though not technically European Portuguese, Deutsche Welle's Portuguese for Africa Service has over 60 hours worth of free to download "radionovelas" with pdf transcripts and audio in Mozambican Portuguese- which closely follows Iberian norms and grammar. The audio and pdf transcripts are free to download. The possibility exists to make your own bilingual texts as well by downloading the English transcripts from their English Service. I recommend you start with Fábulas africanas For the English pdf's go here:African Fables As I said, there are over 50 series with each episode lasting about 10 minutes and each series with about 10 episiodes each. The language is conversational and not overly complicated. I started with the Fables and thoroughly enjoyed them. Alternatively, there are several free flash download programs out there and many children's videos available online. I agree with you about the digital fence. What a shame people who want to do the right thing can't simply because of an arbitrary rule. Boa sorte 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5781 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 3 of 6 01 April 2013 at 11:35pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
This is great advice, Iguanamon. Problem is that I'm already doing both those things based on your advice in another thread (that and a few other things you recommended). 
I really should have gone back and thanked you as it really was great advice: I still struggle with the colloquial stuff, but after just a week of working through these I was amazed at how my comprehension of formal Portuguese skyrocketed to the point where I noticed I could understand news videos and stuff (obviously that was because there's so much vocabulary in common with Spanish at the formal level). Didn't know these were on iTunes, though. Cheers man. Any idea what I can do with my £25? Edit: also (off topic) any idea where I can buy Dora in European Portuguese (I already have it in Brazilian)? I'm willing to pay a reasonable price (like the German ones, which can be had very reasonably), but not hundreds of pounds and there doesn't seem to be a Portuguese Amazon. Edited by Random review on 02 April 2013 at 12:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5260 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 4 of 6 02 April 2013 at 1:38am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You're welcome, Random. I'm sorry. I know nothing about iTunes. I don't use it. Wook.pt Dora DVD's is where you can buy the Dora DVD's from Portugal. They run about 9-15 euros apiece. I never order from them because of the digital fence but Britain is part of the EU. FNAC.pt is another alternative. Perhaps someone in Portugal can help you find some used copies.
Do you know about Historia do dia These are short stories for children (some with English translations check the arquivo) from sapo.pt in Portugal, with audio. You might also try Escola Virtual from sapo.pt for virtual classes geared towards kids from year 1 to year4. Boa sorte! Edited by iguanamon on 02 April 2013 at 2:46am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4608 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 5 of 6 02 April 2013 at 3:55am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I don't know what's available on iTunes UK but I recently bought Vocabulearn Greek on
iTunes Canada. It was about $10 for three hours of audio which I thought was reasonable. Earworms Greek is not bad either and that's on iTunes (over here at least). Edited by embici on 02 April 2013 at 3:55am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5781 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 6 of 6 02 April 2013 at 4:47am | IP Logged | ||||||||
8 episodes for 10 euros?! More than reasonable. It seems they do deliver outside of Portugal too. Looks promising!
No, I didn't. Where do you find this stuff (I'm currently laughing my ass off and shaking my head in wonder)? Just what I need. I hope you know my German's really going to suffer because of this heh heh heh! 
Iguanamon, if it's OK with you I'd love it if you started a thread on European Portuguese audio resources so you can post all this in one easy-to-find place. I'd never have found this stuff myself. You up for that?
£5.99 and two levels of Mandarin at the same price each. Even if nothing better is suggested, that'll be £18 well spent. Thanks.  Edited by Random review on 02 April 2013 at 4:54am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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