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| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5455 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 1 of 5 24 September 2011 at 10:46am | IP Logged |
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An exciting find for any Georgianists out there. The good people at Rustavi 2 have
made available for free viewing two entire seasons of a Georgian cop show called დეტექტივები. There are no subtitles, and when you expand it to full screen the picture quality deteriorates a bit, but hey, come on guys, most Georgian TV is poorly dubbed Latin American soaps, so I reckon this is a really good find (even though I do say so myself). As to whether or not the series is actually any good, I'll let you know after I've watched a couple of episodes. I just discovered it a couple of minutes ago and raced over to HTLAL to spread the good news. EDIT: I suppose it would be sensible to show you where to find it. დეტექტივები Edited by TixhiiDon on 24 September 2011 at 10:50am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5455 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 2 of 5 24 September 2011 at 2:16pm | IP Logged |
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Well, I watched the first part of the first episode of დეტექტივები (Georgian TV
programmes are loooong) and it was pretty good. Nothing amazing, but pretty good. What is much more than pretty good, though, is that the Rustavi 2 website appears to provide literally hundreds of hours of Georgian TV completely free of charge. Why did it take me a year and a half of Georgian study to discover this? Why have I been reading threads about Russian, Spanish, and Japanese TV series green with envy when all the while I have this incredible learning resource at the click of a mouse?? Anyway, better late than never. Highlights include Georgian "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", which is titled ვის უნდა ორი ათასი? (literally, "Who Wants Twenty Thousand?") in Georgian, რა? სად? როდის? "What? Where? When?", a highly intellectual game show adapted from the, apparently, hugely popular and famous Russian version Что? Где? Когда?, a load of documentaries on modern Georgian history, a quiz show that seems to be a Georgian version of "Name that Tune" (which will bring a smile of nostalgia to any Brits over a certain age), and hours and hours of news, talk shows, and comedies. It's a veritable treasure trove, I tell you. Who needs Assimil and Pimsleur? Obviously the reason why my original post has not yet received streams of replies is that you are all ensconced in დეტექტივები. There can be no other explanation... Edited by TixhiiDon on 24 September 2011 at 3:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5547 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 3 of 5 24 September 2011 at 3:57pm | IP Logged |
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Lol...how did you guess? ;)
Thanks so much for sharing this - superb find! Don't tell Mother Russia, but I might just have to put this in the top of my wanderlust basket. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| shawns Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5285 days ago 20 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Georgian | Message 4 of 5 24 September 2011 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks, this looks great. I'd like to add something I recently found. Radio Free Europe's Georgian language service,
Radio Tavisupleba, has a website with news in Georgian. The really neat thing is that they have audio for many of their articles, labeled with a little speaker. The text for an article with audio is basically a transcript of the audio, which is the closest I have found to an audio book in Georgian. The URL is http://www.radiotavisupleba.ge/. Best, 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5455 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 5 of 5 25 September 2011 at 3:06am | IP Logged |
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Yes, the Radio Tavisupleba website is also a brilliant resource, and I visit it almost every day. Occasionally
they upload short vox pop type videos asking regular people for their opinions on various issues as they go about their business on the streets of Tbilisi. A couple of recent ones were asking teenagers if they knew which countries were the Soviet Union's allies during WW2, with predictably imbecilic replies, and another asking middle-aged people if they remember where they were when they heard about Gagarin's flight into space. I particularly like these clips as they are easy to understand and give a nice snapshot of daily life in the Georgian capital. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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