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| georgiqg Triglot Newbie Spain Joined 4902 days ago 36 posts - 50 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, Spanish, English Studies: German, Russian | Message 1 of 8 03 April 2013 at 11:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Last week I had to start learning a programming language I had never used before (I'm a software developer) for work. A friend of mine told me about a website with lots of free video lessons on this subject, so I downloaded around 40 short videos and started watching them in the underground on my way to work. Then I found out that it's a very, very good method. In only one hour I learnt a lot more than I would have learnt with just a book in two or even three hours.
So I'm wondering, are there any video lessons for learning languages (not only programming languages)? They don't have to be free, as long as they're not way too expensive. And I don't mean some basic phrase lessons made by YouTubers, but something more... professional, like BBC or Cambridge lessons or maybe something like Assimil, but in video version. I'm mostly interested in improving my German and my English, but if you know about video lessons in other languages, please post some information, it could be useful for other HTLAL members. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5128 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 8 03 April 2013 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Innovative Language has a couple different
products that incorporate video in addition to their usual audio, and include PDFs. Some of their stuff is free, while other content costs money. I've had some experience with their [xxxx]pod101 and [xxxx]class101 series. They're not bad, but you don't get much grammar from them. R. == 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5373 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 3 of 8 04 April 2013 at 3:12am | IP Logged | ||
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I have a 12 hour Spanish video series produced by the Defense Language Institute (DLI). I have not used it so I don't know if it is any good. It must be available somewhere free as it is in the public domain.
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| georgiqg Triglot Newbie Spain Joined 4902 days ago 36 posts - 50 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, Spanish, English Studies: German, Russian | Message 4 of 8 05 April 2013 at 12:32am | IP Logged | ||
Looks like an interesting site. I'll register and check for good video lessons there. Thanks for the link. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5345 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 5 of 8 05 April 2013 at 8:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Annenberg Foundation has some professionally-made video courses for English, French, Spanish available to stream for free on its website:
Connect with English: 50 fifteen-minute video programs. French in Action: unfortunately only available for streaming in North America. Destinos: 52 half-hour video programs (with companion website). Nuevos Destinos: 15 video programs (12 to 19 minutes in length). Of these, the one that gets talked about the most on this forum, and is generally very liked, is French in Action, but as I said it is only available if you are in the US or Canada. Some legal and free video courses online for other languages: GERMAN Deutsche Welle (Germany’s public broadcaster) has developed several courses at different levels. They are mainly podcasts with transcriptions and exercises. Their only video course so far is Jojo sucht das Glück, but it’s not for absolute beginners. Jojo sucht das Glück (CEFR B1-2) Jojo sucht das Glück 2 (CEFR B1-2) ITALIAN L’italiano in famiglia In Italia Cantieri d’Italia I’ve already written a couple of posts about the Italian courses here and here JAPANESE Irasshai: a video course aimed at high school or college students in two levels: 73 half-hour lessons for the first one and 63 (plus review lessons) for the second one. RUSSIAN Russian World: a video series from the Dallas Indipendent School District in two levels: 70 half-hour lessons for level I and 63 for level II. 15 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 6 of 8 06 April 2013 at 6:26am | IP Logged | ||
I also really love the recordings from langmedia - just various everyday situations with transcripts. The quality of the videos is not necessarily professional but it was a task that international students had to do when going home for the holidays, so there were guidelines,supervision etc... it's not like those amateur lessons without a plan, these have a clear purpose of demonstrating a certain communicative exchange. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6377 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 8 06 April 2013 at 4:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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CCTV has quite a few video courses for Chinese online.
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 8 06 April 2013 at 10:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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For Esperanto, there is Pasporto a la tuta mondo (15 lessons, ~30 minutes)
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