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| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5355 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 1 of 6 14 May 2013 at 10:33am | IP Logged | ||
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I am currently putting a collection together of BBC language courses from the 1960s and
1970s - in the days when the BBC had a public education remit and had to turn out courses for adult education it used to produce great courses. In the 60s there were basic beginners courses (I have French for Beginners and Welsh For Beginners) or on dialogue stories (Komm Mit, Wie Bitte?, Bonjour Francoise?) and in the 70s on live interviews with native speakers (Kontakte/Wegweiser/Kein Problem for German, Ensemble/Sur le Vif/Allez France for French) I came across this one - Suivez la piste - available on the internet - it was used in language schools in the 1970s and so has been digitised without having to hunt LPs down. Having listened to it, its pretty groovy stuff. Thanks to the people who digitised it: http://franceinfo.us/library/suivez-la-piste/ http://ruevavin.tumblr.com/page/3 10 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4618 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2 of 6 14 May 2013 at 12:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, those BBC courses were really great.
Two others were "Deutsch Direkt", and later (perhaps in the latter days of BBC courses), "Deutsch Heute". There were also some courses aimed specifically at school pupils. There was one great one set in Hamburg that I recorded some of on VHS, but I've forgotten the title for the moment. And there was a series set in a cafe, with both French and German versions ... that was pretty good. (Maybe there were even more versions? Possible). These would be from the 1990s I think. ... While looking for more info, I came across a forum where people are reminiscing about this kind of thing ... don't know if there are any useful pointers there ... old MFL courses 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5355 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 3 of 6 14 May 2013 at 1:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am surprised at the quality of the older courses - another series I recently got off
ebay is the late 1960s Répondez s'il vous plaît. It was written by Max Bellancourt, the author of the 19702-1990s Linguaphone course. Unfortunately, the BBC in their wisdom didn't bring out LPs of the dialogues (which are about a detective investigating a crime whilst on holiday) but instead published 3 x 45 minute LPs of FSI like drills, similar to the ones that appear on the Linguaphone programme. Still all good fun and good revision too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Metaphrastis Triglot Newbie Australia Joined 4028 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, French Studies: Korean, Esperanto, Spanish, Mandarin | Message 4 of 6 15 May 2013 at 6:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi,
Nice thread. I am searching (but not terribly hard) for a digitized version of the old BBC Spanish course called:'Starting Spanish', by Brian Dutton and Angel Garcia de Paredes. There was a text book and a couple of LP records. My mother (now 82) used that course to learn conversational Spanish in the 1960's, and I had a go with it too. She has decided to brush up her (extremely) rusty Spanish skills, and wants to do that same course again. (Her theory is that doing the exact same course will restore her previous level of fluency more quickly and easily than beginning a new course) The course is available (on LP records) via e-bay, but I imagine that after all these years the records are badly scratched. Does anyone here know if there is a digital version on sale somewhere? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4699 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 5 of 6 16 May 2013 at 7:47am | IP Logged | ||
It looks interesting, but it seems you have to use it online. You can't download the text or the audio. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5355 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 6 of 6 16 May 2013 at 10:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Having looked around you can download the audio to Suivez la Piste here:
http://eloeffler.basd.k12.wi.us/fr/slp/ Edited by Elexi on 16 May 2013 at 10:57am 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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