Language Geek » Videos http://languagegeek.net just blogging about my language geekery Mon, 14 May 2012 19:33:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Video-Thema from Deutsche Welle http://languagegeek.net/2009/03/12/video-thema-from-deutsche-welle/ http://languagegeek.net/2009/03/12/video-thema-from-deutsche-welle/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:10:09 +0000 Josh http://languagegeek.net/?p=309 Continue reading →]]> Yesterday I learned about a new offering from Deutsche Welle, Video-Thema. Every week they put up a new video complete with exercises, transcript, and glossary. Apparently, they started this up at the beginning of the year; I’ve no idea how I missed it.

Thanks to Cornelia from the Deutsch als Fremdsprache Blog for posting about it.

]]> http://languagegeek.net/2009/03/12/video-thema-from-deutsche-welle/feed/ 0 Yabla – Foreign Language Videos With Subtitles and Translations http://languagegeek.net/2009/02/10/yabla-foreign-language-videos-with-subtitles-and-translations/ http://languagegeek.net/2009/02/10/yabla-foreign-language-videos-with-subtitles-and-translations/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:32:30 +0000 Josh http://languagegeek.net/?p=266 Continue reading →]]> I recently learned about a website called Yabla, which offers Spanish and French videos complete with transcripts and translations:

Only Yabla language immersion sites give you authentic television, music videos, drama, interviews, travel, and Yabla exclusive shoots from throughout the world. Our unique player technology is designed with language learners in mind: Slow Play, Integrated Dictionaries, Listening Game, Dual Language Subtitles, and more.

I took their player for a spin, and quite liked it. The transcript isn’t just a big block of text, but instead, is integrated into the player. Each sentence or phrase appears as it’s spoken, and pressing back takes you to the beginning of the sentence. The Slow Play feature is also nice, slowing the video and audio down to perhaps 1/2 to 3/4 regular speed. The audio sounds slightly robotic after being treated this way, but it’s still quite usable. I’m usually wary of language “games”, finding most of them useless, but the Listening Game at Yabla actually seems useful. What it does is removes a random word from the transcript; you listen and watch, and try to fill in the missing word. I can certainly see where playing this occasionally could help one’s listening comprehension.

Hopefully, the amount of French videos catches up with the Spanish; as of right now, there’s around 5 hours of video at Yabla French, and nearly 20 hours at LoMasTv. Still, though, 5 hours of French video with transcripts and translations is a treasure trove for the French learner, so I won’t complain. :) Do check it out, just bear in mind that their is a subscription fee of $9.95 a month. If you sign up for longer periods of time (6 months, a year), you get a discount.

]]> http://languagegeek.net/2009/02/10/yabla-foreign-language-videos-with-subtitles-and-translations/feed/ 9 Learn the basics of Russian through videos http://languagegeek.net/2007/06/26/learn-the-basics-of-russian-through-videos/ http://languagegeek.net/2007/06/26/learn-the-basics-of-russian-through-videos/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:31:33 +0000 Josh http://languagegeek.net/2007/06/26/learn-the-basics-of-russian-through-videos/ Continue reading →]]> While exploring the forums at MasterRussian.com, I came across a post pointing to a set of Russian language learning videos on YouTube.

To make it a bit easier on Language Geek readers, here’s all of the links to the individual videos, along with what they go over:

RL101 – 1 :Some Enchanted Evening to learn Russian!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlJw08uMvE4

RL101 – 2 : The Six Letters That Are The Same
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj9B-d7iDkw

RL101 – 3: Six Letters that look the same but are different!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnq0LrVauTQ

RL101 – 4 The next five letters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eoN46jprhU

RL101 – 5 Revision of the first 17 letters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly_XZFHFYPs

RL101 – 6 The Next Five – 2/3 of the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiSzIXXkl3U

RL101 – 7 The Sibilants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuyP2x8vRDU

RL101 – 8: The Missing Vowels – part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbdzd-BNC-U

RL101 – 8: The Missing Vowels – part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3OidoFoo2A

RL101 – 9 Soft sign, hard sign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wbyiBKeFKI

RL101 – 10 Russkaya Azbuka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDEYGwDEahc

RL102 – 1 Basic Russian grammar lesson 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUVNA_loG_o

RL102 – 2 Basic Russian grammar lesson 2 part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS6ksHAT4sY

RL102 – 2 Basic Russian grammar lesson 2 part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F0eH5paKW4

RL102 – 3 Basic Russian grammar lesson 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnp–PtRajc

RL102 – 4/1 Basic Russian grammar lesson 4 part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQKfQIZRFVY

RL102 – 4/2 Basic Russian grammar lesson 4 part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtXb19sMu7g

Roll your “r”s now, baybee!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPIpTERosZY

RL102 – 5/1 Basic Russian grammar lesson 5 part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSLtHXrwm30

RL102 – 5/2 Basic Russian grammar lesson 5 part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87o6TS3rUaw

RL102 – 6/1 Basic Russian grammar lesson 6 part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ_RYKpYfg0

RL102 – 6/2 Basic Russian grammar lesson 6 part two (corr)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJW-IamMaCs

Gold List Method for learning to L/T memory part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6FERpM5fQ

Gold List Method for learning to L/T memory part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTyJiGVJ0LM

RL102 – 7 Basic Russian grammar lesson 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaPCFWLN5uI

By the way, despite him speaking English with a thick Russian accent, he’s not actually Russian; it’s just part of his skit. He’s actually English.

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