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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 3845 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 1 of 4 06 March 2014 at 5:42pm | IP Logged |
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Hello all!
One of the most useful resources available for free language learning are podcasts. I'm exploring quite a few, both for my target languages learning, both for my experimentation with various other languages. I found a couple of podcasts that I find amazing but also a lot that don't fit my learning style at all. For example, the two I really like how are structured are - Learn French with daily podcasts. Just amazing. 1500+ lessons and are all independent so you don't need to start with the first to understand what is going on. The speaker read a text or playes a dialogue in French, and then, also in French, he explains the meaning of the words. - Learn Portuguese BrazilianPodclass. I just discovered this one and it's also great. There is a dialogue in the beginning, then sentence per sentence all the dialogue is translated in English and repeated in Portuguese. The same is with commands (like "repeat after me"). 400+ episodes and in the second part of the episodes it gives also some grammar (I listened the first 5 episodes). I don't like, for example, how Chai and Conversation works: you miss one audio and you're dead. Everytime I have to listen each episode 4 times and I remember one half. And there are really few episodes. I hate even more the 3 minutes style. Sentence, translation, bye bye. Same for the various SomeLanguagePod101. I'm for the daily podcasts, they help more to interiorize the language (at least, all of those are my personal considerations). Do you know other podcasts that are structured like the two I listed above? Which language: ALL :D Thank you very much in advance! Edited by tristano on 06 March 2014 at 5:44pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 3845 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 2 of 4 11 March 2014 at 4:28pm | IP Logged |
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Nothing? :)
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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5189 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 3 of 4 11 March 2014 at 6:28pm | IP Logged |
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I haven't used podcasts at the beginning level a lot. Many of them seem pretty shallow
(like the three-minute style you mentioned). I have used News in Slow Spanish a bit and it's pretty good. There's also Coffee Break Spanish which is good as well but, if I remember correctly, quite a bit of English. I think it was FrenchPod101 (and the other ___Pod101 courses) was also good. They have podcasts at each level and come with PDFs and guides. Before the age of podcasts there were the audio magazines which are still around and are still good. They usually come with transcripts as well as guides with vocabulary and grammar points. Some French ones are Bien-Dire, Champs-Elysées, and Fluent French. For Spanish there's Veinte Mundos. I use podcasts A LOT for listening to French. I listen to native radio programs, mostly from France Inter and France Culture. They're good to practice with because they're usually quite advanced (though it depends on the show) and you have no visual clues to depend on like when watching TV. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 3805 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 4 11 March 2014 at 8:59pm | IP Logged |
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I listen to French podcasts extensively. My favorites:
RFI Français en Facile * current fave One thing in a French day * current fave French, Etc mot du jour Français Authentique, particularly the earlier ones Native French Speech C'est la Vie, Word of the Week * current fave! but a lot of English Coffe Break French, but a lot of English I also use the TuneIn Radio (website or app) to listen to talk radio stations in France and Quebec 1 person has voted this message useful |
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