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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4989 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 7 19 July 2013 at 11:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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Like many people these days, I spend a little bit too much time on Facebook. However, I've recently made that time slightly more productive by "liking" some target-language pages which frequently post interesting articles, funny pictures, or quotes. That way, my news feed is now interspersed with short pieces of my target languages, and if something interests me I can read the article or the comments. I suppose this is along similar lines to the common advice to peruse "trashy" media to get exposure to informal language, like humour sites and low-brow TV programmes - the sort of stuff that you shouldn't waste your time with in your native language but can be surprisingly useful in one you're learning. Obviously I'm not saying you should sign up to Facebook just for these, but if you're already a frequent user then it's a good idea.
A few good ones that I've recently discovered in Italian: Notifica: funny pictures, image macros, internet memes. Aforismi: inspiring/interesting/amusing quotes. Il Coinquilino di Merda: funny real-life stories about house-sharing experiences. There are some other good "XYZ di merda" pages too. Informazione Libera: a more high-brow one, interesting articles about societal issues etc., very popular with Italians. I don't know as many for French, since I have far fewer French friends. The Topito page (a site that should already be in every intermediate/advanced French student's feed reader) has some good images and links as well as just re-posts of the site's articles. Ta gueule je parle occasionally has good stuff, but even for my lowered foreign language standards most of the posts are far too trashy and "like-baiting". If anyone knows of something good like Notifica then I'd be interested to know. Post any other good ones you know, for any language. I suppose there are also similar things for Twitter, although I don't use it. Edited by garyb on 19 July 2013 at 2:58pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5648 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 2 of 7 19 July 2013 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
That link doesn't seem to work. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4989 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 7 19 July 2013 at 2:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
Fixed it now, thanks for letting me know. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hint Triglot Newbie Poland Joined 3956 days ago 3 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic (classical), French Studies: Korean | Message 4 of 7 01 August 2013 at 12:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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If anyone had something in Spanish, that could help me.
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| Haksaeng Senior Member Korea, South Joined 5980 days ago 166 posts - 250 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 5 of 7 01 August 2013 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6379 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 6 of 7 09 December 2013 at 3:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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For BCSM I like Klub nenaspavanih. And in German I randomly found Racheshop, they post a lot of fun stuff.
It's also a good idea to follow pages related to the cultural things you like in your L2, like celebrities, events, cities' pages etc. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| nj24 Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4445 days ago 56 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian, French | Message 7 of 7 09 December 2013 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
Useful Spanish language learning sites with Facebook pages are VeinteMundos and Practica español (these are two free online magazines for people studying Spanish). I also like Góngora Correcciones (a Facebook page about the Spanish language and correct grammar, spelling, etc.) Of course, you can also usually follow the Spanish language site of your favorite newspaper. For example, there's CNN en Español. Or you could just follow a newspaper from a Latin American country or Spain, like El País (Facebook page is ELPAIS.com). Another site I found the other day is Ruben y el mundo. It's a travel site with 3-4 minute videos in Spanish with English subtitles. I'm sure you could find other Spanish blogs like this to follow on Facebook. Hope these help! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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