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Iversen
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 Message 689 of 3737
09 June 2010 at 1:01am | IP Logged 
When you hope that the people who installed your mother's cable TV never discover that they accidentally put Russian subtitles on TV5 (a French channel) instead of Danish ones.
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Rina
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 Message 690 of 3737
11 June 2010 at 7:02am | IP Logged 
When your entire theatre class is relieved when you walk in late because no one wanted to struggle to pronounce the Japanese parts of the play the class was reading that period.
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Olympia
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 Message 691 of 3737
11 June 2010 at 11:32pm | IP Logged 
Iversen wrote:
When you hope that the people who installed your mother's cable TV never discover that they
accidentally put Russian subtitles on TV5 (a French channel) instead of Danish ones.


Haha... I would LOVE that.

Another one: The cable company keeps taking channels off of your basic cable package, and you secretly like it
because it means that eventually your parents will give in and get digital cable...thereby giving you access to
channels in foreign languages.

And I'm particularly devastated because one of the first channels to go was Univsion--our only Spanish-language
channel.
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GREGORG4000
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 Message 692 of 3737
12 June 2010 at 12:24am | IP Logged 
Olympia wrote:
Another one: The cable company keeps taking channels off of your basic cable package, and you secretly like it
because it means that eventually your parents will give in and get digital cable...thereby giving you access to
channels in foreign languages.

Our digital cable only gives a bunch of Spanish channels and you have to pay ten billion dollars an month to watch any other foreign languages

Edited by GREGORG4000 on 12 June 2010 at 12:24am

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ellasevia
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 Message 693 of 3737
12 June 2010 at 12:57am | IP Logged 
Where I live there are a bunch of Spanish TV channels, and then one channel that rotates about every hour for a bunch of other languages. It actually has a really good selection: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, German, Dutch, Flemish, Icelandic, Greek, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Armenian, Ossetian, Georgian, Hungarian, Arabic, Mandarin...

Sometimes I just go watch that channel just to be entertained by listening to the sounds of the language and trying to figure out what they are talking about. My grandmother always would get up at 5 in the morning to watch the Greek program.

EDIT: Out of curiosity I just turned on that channel to see what was on now and it was just the end of the Lithuanian program and then it switched to Hungarian.

Edited by ellasevia on 12 June 2010 at 1:01am

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Juаn
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 Message 694 of 3737
12 June 2010 at 1:49am | IP Logged 
ellasevia wrote:
one channel that rotates about every hour for a bunch of other languages. It actually has a really good selection: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, German, Dutch, Flemish, Icelandic, Greek, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Armenian, Ossetian, Georgian, Hungarian, Arabic, Mandarin...


I've never seen anything like it. It would be a dream come true. What is it called? What kind of programs does it feature?
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ellasevia
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 Message 695 of 3737
12 June 2010 at 3:59am | IP Logged 
Juаn wrote:
ellasevia wrote:
one channel that rotates about every hour for a bunch of other languages. It actually has a really good selection: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, German, Dutch, Flemish, Icelandic, Greek, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Armenian, Ossetian, Georgian, Hungarian, Arabic, Mandarin...


I've never seen anything like it. It would be a dream come true. What is it called? What kind of programs does it feature?


The station is called SCOLA. For most of the languages it is just the news broadcast from the country, but for some of them there are also game shows, children's shows, educational documentaries, and other entertainment programs. I just now noticed that (I think) you can also watch the programs live on the website which I linked to.

Edited by ellasevia on 12 June 2010 at 4:01am

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Levi
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 Message 696 of 3737
12 June 2010 at 4:49am | IP Logged 
ellasevia wrote:
Juаn wrote:
ellasevia wrote:
one channel that rotates about every hour for a bunch of other languages. It actually has a really good selection: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, German, Dutch, Flemish, Icelandic, Greek, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Armenian, Ossetian, Georgian, Hungarian, Arabic, Mandarin...


I've never seen anything like it. It would be a dream come true. What is it called? What kind of programs does it feature?


The station is called SCOLA. For most of the languages it is just the news broadcast from the country, but for some of them there are also game shows, children's shows, educational documentaries, and other entertainment programs. I just now noticed that (I think) you can also watch the programs live on the website which I linked to.

That is a dream come true!

You know you're not a language nerd if you don't bookmark that link ASAP!


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