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| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4505 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 1 of 7 06 May 2014 at 4:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi everyone. I wanted to use the Slowly spoken news on the Deutsche Welle site. Here is
the direct link: http://www.dw.de/slowly-spoken-news-reports-learning-german/ a-1833641-1# How does it work? It doesn't play directly from the page. I tried to add the web address to Feedly as well as a Chrome extension. I am not very tech savvy. Can anyone help me out? I just want to use it when on my laptop using Google Chrome browser. I have no experience with RSS readers. Thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6999 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 2 of 7 06 May 2014 at 10:58am | IP Logged | ||
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One way is to use a Download Them All extension in your web browser. It saves a lot of pointing and clicking.
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| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4505 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 3 of 7 07 May 2014 at 12:51am | IP Logged | ||
Luke, thanks for sharing. Google Chrome is my usual browser, but I opened Firefox just to try this. Nothing is happening still when I click the link on the German page. However, it seems to do nothing. I don't know what is going on with a pop-up blocker or something, but the page says to copy the page URL into a podcasting software and that isn't seeming to work! They all just say no feed found. So is the url to paste not just the one of the page from the Deutsche Welle site? Edited by ericblair on 07 May 2014 at 12:54am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4505 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 7 07 May 2014 at 4:38am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh well, it doesn't seem likely to work. No sense wasting more time fiddling with it.
I will just try: germanpod101.com slowgerman.com I am just trying to get in some listening practice outside of the course I am working with, so it isn't necessary to be from where I originally planned! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5114 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 5 of 7 07 May 2014 at 7:57am | IP Logged | ||
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It appears that the official Slowly Spoken German News DW website is defunct. So much for German efficiency. :-)
However, DW also has a SoundCloud website for slowly spoken German news, which contains current listings. They don't have an RSS feed, though. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4505 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 6 of 7 07 May 2014 at 11:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks! I am glad I'm not crazy, haha. I didn't want RSS anyway. Thanks for the link :)
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| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5114 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 7 of 7 08 May 2014 at 6:24am | IP Logged | ||
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It appears that DW is using dynamically generated web pages that offer content only for a limited amount of time. The official web site is here.
In addition to the SoundCloud page, they also have an RSS feed with .mp3 download links. You can also subscribe to the daily podcasts on iTunes. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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