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| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5386 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 1 of 9 19 August 2011 at 10:51pm | IP Logged |
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Just curious if anyone had come across a courses from governments that teach the national
language of its country. For example CCTV-4 from China's website is packed with video courses ranging from beginner to advanced. Some of the courses look quite good rivaling French in Action. TRT (Turkey) has a podcast series on its website that has translated into several languages. Anyone have any luck finding any good resources? Edited by LatinoBoy84 on 19 August 2011 at 10:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6967 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2 of 9 19 August 2011 at 11:55pm | IP Logged |
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YLE's Supisuomea course and its quasi-pedagogical radio program Selkouutiset (news broadcasts presented in relatively simple Finnish with comprehension exercises so that foreigners/immigrants can understand yet learn too) would fit the bill as YLE is Finland's national broadcaster and owned 99.98% by the Finnish government.
Deutsche Welle's courses for German may qualify but I can't get a straight answer on whether the German government ultimately owns/sponsors Deutsche Welle via ARD or some other organization. Norway's Folkeuniversitetet may also count as it offers courses in Norwegian (in addition to other languages such as Arabic, English, Northern Saami, Spanish). From what I gather Folkeuniversitetet is an adult education association that receives funding from national and municipal governments. P.S. I didn't notice earlier that YLE puts out more than just courses in Finnish. There are also some audio-, text- or video-based materials for Arabic, Chinese, Estonian, Finnish Sign Language, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish which are intended for people knowing Finnish. Edited by Chung on 20 August 2011 at 5:40am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4670 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 3 of 9 19 August 2011 at 11:55pm | IP Logged |
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There are plenty of sources on Deutsche Welle website. Also BBC had loads of programmes, mostly about vocabulary. The second ones were not strictly courses, but I enjoyed them a lot. Edited by prz_ on 20 August 2011 at 12:03am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kmart Senior Member Australia Joined 5935 days ago 194 posts - 400 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 4 of 9 20 August 2011 at 12:57am | IP Logged |
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Cantieri d'Italia for Italian.
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| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5386 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 5 of 9 20 August 2011 at 4:02am | IP Logged |
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Thanks guys, here's a link for the Mandarin courses I was referring to:
CCTV-4 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 6957 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 6 of 9 20 August 2011 at 4:19am | IP Logged |
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I have courses from Radio Nederlands, Dutch by Radio, from Russia, Russian by Radio and Russian For Everybody and from Sweden, Swedish by Radio.
The programs from Russia and Holland were free. Dutch by Radio came with textbooks and a record, I got books from Radio Moscow. I got a free book from Radio Sweden but I had to pay for the book and a set of 10 x 12" LPs teaching Swedish, money well spent. I did get some stuff from Radio Japan which I never used and I got a set of 20 or more floppy 7" records from Radio Australia with a book teaching Indonesian. There is a lot of stuff out there. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5158 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 7 of 9 20 August 2011 at 6:44pm | IP Logged |
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On the Links & Internet Resources subforum, I’ve posted a collection of radio language courses available online, which seem to fit your overall description of publicly funded materials to teach the national language.
Have a look around to find out if there’s anything there that interests you. And if anyone finds new resources, please, add them to that post, as it’s easier for everybody to find them if they’re all listed in one place. Thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4670 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 8 of 9 20 August 2011 at 9:03pm | IP Logged |
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Just found it today:
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/learnenglish/ 1 person has voted this message useful |
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