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| Zerbie Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4843 days ago 9 posts - 17 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 1 of 7 04 November 2011 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello everyone,
I wasn't sure in which forum to post this question. I'm in the US and would like to keep up some exposure to the German language. We've tried to find a TV service where we can access German TV but haven't actually found one in our area -- the international channels available to us are almost exclusively in languages not among our 'targets' and it's extremely expensive as well. An acquaintance mentioned this morning that we might find German TV streaming or archived on the web. I've searched, but what I've been able to find so far have been film trailers. Can anyone recommend a free, or at least relatively inexpensive, online resource for German television? Or movies? (We do have netflix online, but they have relatively few flims in German and we've watched them all several times already.) Thanks very much for any recommendations! Zerbie 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kualidu Triglot Groupie Mexico Joined 6197 days ago 93 posts - 102 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, French, EnglishC2 Studies: GermanB1 | Message 2 of 7 05 November 2011 at 4:15am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm sure your cable TV provider offers Deutsche Welle. I have it in Mexico (the Latin
American service). I can't remember well but I think I used to have it when I lived in the US. If you're trying to practice you listening skills I'd recommend you check out the DW website. They have literally hundreds of vides together with their transcriptions so you can listen and read at the same time. I've also been watching a German soap opera with English subtitles called "Verbotene Liebe" or "Chris und Olli"... it's a gay soap opera but very funny and interesting. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Kyle Corrie Senior Member United States Joined 4820 days ago 175 posts - 464 votes | Message 3 of 7 05 November 2011 at 4:50am | IP Logged | ||
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http://www.myspass.de - This is a website that hosts a lot of German shows. 'Stromberg'
is pretty funny -- it's Germany's version of 'The Office'. 'Elton reist' is another pretty hilarious show. If you're looking for more of a 'Tonight Show' type of thing then 'TV Total' is what you're after. These other links are channels that are in plenty of other languages and consist mostly of live streaming news stations. http://beelinetv.com/ http://wwitv.com/portal.htm http://www.tevootv.com/watch-online-tv-movie-channels.html If you have an iPod you could get the ARD Tagesschau app and watch their broadcasts there as well. If you'd like to check out YouTube then you should go to the ARD and ZDF channels. http://www.youtube.com/user/ZDF http://www.youtube.com/user/ARD That should tide you over for now. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4835 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 4 of 7 05 November 2011 at 3:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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You can watch German TV for free on www.zattoo.com. You just have to register with your e-mail address.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5838 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 7 06 November 2011 at 7:37am | IP Logged | ||
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There is a service of ZDF (= Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen) that you can watch programs which have been broadcasted as videos. This website is called "ZDF Mediathek".
ZDF Mediathek Also ARD (= Allgemeine Rundfunkanstalten Deutschlands) has such a possibility to watch broadcasted programs as videos. ARD Mediathek Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 06 November 2011 at 8:17pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Zerbie Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4843 days ago 9 posts - 17 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 6 of 7 06 November 2011 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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These are great! Thank you!
Kualidu, I've been listening to Deutsche Welle and other streaming audio, but it hadn't occurred to me they had videos there as well. I'll be checking all of these out. Thanks everyone! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5684 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 7 of 7 06 November 2011 at 5:45pm | IP Logged | ||
I second the "Chris und Olli" storyline from "Verbotene Liebe" – I adore them. :) You can find all the videos for their storyline on YouTube if you search for "chrolli". ETA: Including with English subs! Edited by Jinx on 06 November 2011 at 6:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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