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| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5867 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 1 of 5 10 December 2010 at 6:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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A very significant part of my Dutch study involves the news. I read it, watch it and listen to it. Up until now, my main frustration has been the lack of video or audio with good parallel text or captions. NOS Journaal does have captioning but it is low quality and very poorly synchronized. I don't know how or why native Dutch speakers who are deaf or hard-of-hearing tolerate the poor quality of "ondertitling" on NOS Journaal.
HOWEVER, I have just discovered that TV Rijnmond Nieuws from the Rotterdam region has a YouTube channel with very good captions. They can be displayed directly on the video or just below in a scrolling list. I find that the scrolling list is excellent because it solves the problem of synchronization, and it lets you glance back or ahead, or read ahead during audio pauses. As well, the Rijnmond nieuws is current whereas most others are outdated by the time they add the captions. Rijnmond nieuws also has a great mix of newsreader and "conversational street interviews" so it covers a very good spectrum of the Dutch language. The captions could be a bit more accurate, especially for the fast-speaking interviews, but overall, it is quite good. So for me, this is a great new resource. If anyone knows of other similar resources in Dutch, with good parallel audio and transcripts, I'd be pleased to know about them. Here is a link to a sample of TV Rijnmond Nieuws for 9 December 2010. You can click on "tvrijnmond" to go to the main page with an index, etc. to other days and other news. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tDhm8XXOc Edit: Corrected sample date. Edited by tommus on 11 December 2010 at 2:09am 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7104 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 2 of 5 10 December 2010 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
Wow, they even do future news as well!! You wouldn't happen to know if the EuroMillions lottery numbers were in there would you? (thanks for the link - current affairs is a big thing for me so I'll make good use of that) Edited by Andy E on 10 December 2010 at 11:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5867 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 3 of 5 11 December 2010 at 2:08am | IP Logged | |||||
You are quite observant. I'd like to say it was a test to go with the recent HTLAL thread about noticing. But it was simply operator error! It should have said 9 December 2010. And I do think there were some lottery numbers there. I hope you enjoy the site as much as I am enjoying it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Liface Triglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Lif Joined 5859 days ago 150 posts - 237 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Dutch, French | Message 4 of 5 11 December 2010 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This is money, thanks. Although it's a bit annoying that the captions don't match exactly what is said. Sometime they'll use a different tense or leave a lot of words out.
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| sjonge Newbie United States Joined 5070 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes | Message 5 of 5 08 January 2011 at 10:05am | IP Logged | |||||
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You can watch Dutch television with captions on uitzendinggemist.nl. The listings marked for "888" (the ear icon) are captioned, and they're actually very well done. The captions will appear directly on the video if you use Microsoft's Silverlight player. Edited by sjonge on 08 January 2011 at 10:11am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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