LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5385 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian
| Message 1 of 14 29 November 2009 at 10:21pm | IP Logged |
I figured that many Universities around the world had developed their own course work for a number of languages and simultaneously have made the materials available for the general public for self/private teaching. If anyone has found any interesting materials from Universities please post them here.
I'll go first: The University of Arizona
Critical Language Series
http://clp.arizona.edu/cls/allproducts.htm
They have developed a multimedia series that can be used for self-teaching.
Brazilian Portuguese, Cantonese, Chinese, Kazakh, Korean, Turkish & Ukranian
For those learning "rare" languages:
http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/
The Association for development of self-teaching programs.
http://www.nasilp.net/
UCLA's language database.
Edited by LatinoBoy84 on 30 November 2009 at 2:59am
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irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 5860 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese
| Message 2 of 14 30 November 2009 at 9:03pm | IP Logged |
LatinoBoy84 wrote:
I figured that many Universities around the world had developed their own course work for a number of languages and simultaneously have made the materials available for the general public for self/private teaching. If anyone has found any interesting materials from Universities please post them here.
I'll go first: The University of Arizona
Critical Language Series
http://clp.arizona.edu/cls/allproducts.htm
They have developed a multimedia series that can be used for self-teaching.
Brazilian Portuguese, Cantonese, Chinese, Kazakh, Korean, Turkish & Ukranian
For those learning "rare" languages:
http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/
The Association for development of self-teaching programs.
http://www.nasilp.net/
UCLA's language database. |
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Wow thanks! http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/]http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/ is an incredible resource!
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5345 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 3 of 14 30 November 2009 at 9:26pm | IP Logged |
Hmmm...that Critical Language Korean looks interesting...and not very expensive, either.
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alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7031 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish
| Message 4 of 14 30 November 2009 at 10:05pm | IP Logged |
Should the contributing posts be from the Universities like this:
Cornell University
http://lrc.cornell.edu/sales
or University published series like so:
Yale University
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/SeriesPage.asp?series=103
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LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5385 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian
| Message 5 of 14 01 December 2009 at 4:45am | IP Logged |
I would ideally like to bring to light a number of materials that we may not generally know about like the Critical Language Series. A lot of these materials could be of high value to many of us, but Universities don't have super large marketing arms to let us know about their existence. So I would like members to use their judgement and post quality materials that would be beneficial to others. For example after seeing what the Arizona offers I'm tempted to take one of those languages.
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6966 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 6 of 14 01 December 2009 at 7:48am | IP Logged |
I'm sure that they've been mentioned before (in a few cases by me), but it can't hurt to post them again.
Polish material for free downloading from the University of Pittsburgh:
http://polish.slavic.pitt.edu/
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Material in Arabic, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Czech, Japanese, Mandarin, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, and Ukrainian published by Foreign Language Publications at Ohio State University:
http://flpubs.osu.edu/
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Audio in several languages hosted by Indiana University for free downloading:
http://www.indiana.edu/~celtie/portal.html
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Books and audio for sale in several languages at the University of Michigan's Language Resource Center:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/flacs/products
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Audio and textbooks in Hungarian for sale by the Debrecen Summer School which is part of the University of Debrecen. The material offered is used in the Summer School's classes but can be purchased separately. Click on "Study Material" on the left to get a description of what is published. If you wish to purchase something, click on "Order Form" in the menu bar that is in the upper half of the webpage.
http://www.nyariegyetem.hu/
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Textbooks (some with audio) of Polish for sale by Universitas (a publishing arm of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków). The Polish language courses for foreigners at the Jagiellonian University rely heavily on material that is published by Universitas. This site is accessible in English - just click on the British flag in the top left corner of the homepage.
http://www.universitas.com.pl/
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Textbooks of Slovak for sale at the on-line shop of Comenius University (Bratislava, Slovakia). The site is accessible only in Slovak, however you may be able to get more information about what's offered by sending an email to Beáta Banecká at banecka@cdv.uniba.sk or calling 011-421-02-50-11-77-31 from the USA or 00-421-02-50-11-77-31 from Europe.
http://www.cdvuk.sk/blade/index.php?s=183&obchodik
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Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6931 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian
| Message 7 of 14 06 December 2009 at 5:35am | IP Logged |
Warp3, I have the Korean course, and I think it's very good! Go for it!
While I don't approve of this, I think I saw some of the video clips from CLS Korean on Youtube a while ago, so if you go on there you might get a taste for the course.
CLS are serious learning CD Roms, not overpriced gimmicks like (ahem) Rosetta Stone!
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Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6931 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian
| Message 8 of 14 06 December 2009 at 5:39am | IP Logged |
Looking again, I think they might have put it on YT themselves. They have added new titles and levels since I last saw the site. From the level of the basic CDs I imagine that the intermediate and advanced materials walk their talk!
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