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BBC Gaeilge (Irish)
Irish, Audio Lessons, News, Radio/TV/Video/Film, Websites, Kids
The BBC website offers free Irish lessons. I am only just beginning to familiarize myself with the site, but I believe there are three levels available—Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3. I tried the first lesson from Level 1 and liked it!…
TG4
Irish, Radio/TV/Video/Film, Websites
Learn Irish by watching Irish TV on the Internet! TG4 was established in 1996; the acronym stands for Teilifís na Gaeilge. According to Gabriel Rosenstock in Beginner’s Irish with Audio CD (2005), “Its success has confounded the sceptics, especially the…
NY Portuguese Short Film Festival
Portuguese, Radio/TV/Video/Film, Fairs/Festivals/Parades
At the first annual NY Portuguese Short Film Festival—which took place in June 2011, in both New York and Lisbon—20 short films were screened. The sponsor of this now-annual event is the Arte Institute, which supports cross-cultural dialogue among artists.
Cable/Satellite Television
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, General, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish, Radio/TV/Video/Film
I no longer have Time Warner Cable, but in the early days of this project, I found it very useful for language-learning purposes, and I would imagine other cable or satellite or fiber-optic service providers would offer similar or perhaps…
Mandarin Made Easy: Lesson 1, Tones
Mandarin, Radio/TV/Video/Film
Mandarin has four tones. This is an unfamiliar concept to most native English speakers and is the type of thing one might ordinarily hope to learn in a class, with the assistance of a nice language teacher who would be…
Arabic Television
Arabic, Radio/TV/Video/Film
Watching foreign-language television can be a useful learning tool, and cable TV often provides access to different worlds’ worth of television. On Time Warner Cable in New York City, for example, channel 507 is as of this writing the Arabic Channel,…
Israeli TV Online
Hebrew, Radio/TV/Video/Film, Websites
It is a fact that many people in this country watch too much television, but you can turn a bad habit into a good one by using TV to accumulate foreign-language skills. These suggestions for free Israeli TV online came…
listenlive.eu
Dutch, English, French, General, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, News, Radio/TV/Video/Film, Websites
A valuable resource for language learners, the listenlive.eu website has a formidable collection of links to more than 4,000 European radio stations streaming live on the web in many languages. I have used listenlive.eu to access German and French…
Let’s Speak Korean
Korean, Radio/TV/Video/Film
I didn’t use this “Let’s Speak Korean” video series in my own studies, but one of my readers pointed it out to me, so I am passing the information on to you.