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- https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- German Studies, Languages
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Producers/Broadcasters, TV/Radio listings, Web Links
This is the website of Germany’s international broadcaster, which provides a wide range of television, radio and online services in thirty languages and is particularly strong in its coverage of culture, education and European social, political and economic matters. The Learn German page, provides access to a range of language courses, suitable for all levels, and including e-learning services, videos, audio courses and podcasts, as well as written materials and worksheets. Amongst the language resources on offer is Langsam Gesprochne Nachrichten, a series of podcasts, with accompanying transcripts, of the news being read slowly in German.
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- http://www.wordsoftheworld.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- French Studies, German Studies, History, Languages, Literature
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download, Web Links
Academics from the University of Nottingham’s School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies present a series of short videos based on a single word which is significant to their research. The site’s homepage presents the words as a kind of crossword puzzle grid, presumably to represent the interdisciplinary nature of the School. The user clicks on a word - Huguenot, Biscuit, Interstitial or Antisemistism - to name but four - and is taken to the video in question. Like other sites designed by Brady Haran, this one features a simple, stylish, slightly quirky approach which allows the enthusiasm of the academics to come across, without obscuring or trivialising the seriousness of their research.
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- http://afilmarchive.net/about
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Film Studies, History, Languages, Russian Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Footage Sources, Streaming/Download
In 2009 over 850 cans of film were rescued from a discard pile at a defunct Russian Cultural Centre in Amman, Jordan. Eventually they came to the attention of Matthew Epler, an American who was then teaching in Jordan. This website was created by Epler with the aim of use crowdsourcing to identify and translate the labels on the cans, with a view to eventually digitising the films and creating an online resource for scholars and researchers, as well as recovering the history of what appears to be a culturally significant find.
Epler and his colleagues photographed the label on each can and created an online database of images, with fields for researchers to comment. So far, with the assistance of interested researchers, nearly 600 labels have been translated. The material spans five decades from the 1930s to the 1980s and most of it comes from SovExportFilm, a Soviet film agency. A number of clips have been digitised and can be viewed here. Among the films identified so far are a documentary confirmed to be part of the PLO Film Archive, lost since 1985; footage of King Hussein in 1968 addressing the United Nations in the aftermath of the Six Day War and documentary footage of Jerusalem in 1968 and its aftermath.
The site is currently (Nov. 2014) inactive but some of the footage can still be viewed on the Moving Image Archive News site.
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- http://www.ovo.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Art, Dance, Design, Economics, Film Studies, History, Languages, Sports Science
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This online encylopedia from Italy consists of thousands of short videos - generally between three and five minutes long, many of them based on entries from the Treccani Encyclopaedia and approved by the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Topics covered include Art and Design; Cinema; Culture; Economics and Politics; Music and Dance; Tourism; Science and Sport. This could be a good resource for Italian language students but the breathless editing and distractingly loud music which accompanies the voiceovers does not necessarily present the content in its best light.
This online resource closed on 28 February 2018.
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- http://en.namathis.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Business Studies, Computing, General Science, Languages, Mathematics
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This site gathers together over 10,000 educational videos from the internet: 2,000 in English, 8,000 in Spanish and 800 in Portuguese. Maths, Computing and Science are particularly well represented. Inactive as of December 2013.
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- https://www.chomsky.info/index.htm
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- Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Languages, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
- Type of resource
- Reviews, Video Sources, Web Links
The official website of American linguist, cognitive scientist and political theorist and activist, Noam Chomsky. Simply designed and clearly laid out, the site has biographies, a bibliography and links to transcripts of interviews, articles, interviews and reviews. The Audio and Video page has hundreds of links to recordings of talks, interviews and speeches with Chomsky, dating back to the early 1970s, including this debate, filmed at the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1971, between Chomsky and French philosopher Michel Foucault on the subject of human nature.
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- https://apprendre.tv5monde.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- French Studies, Languages, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Organisations, Streaming/Download
TV5 Monde is a television network with several channels of French language programming. Its Langue Française channel is aimed at students and teachers of French, with a wide selection of content tailored to all levels of ability.
The site is divided into three sections - Decouvrir le français, Apprendre le français and Enseigner le français. There is a lot of material, but the site is stylishly designed and easy to navigate. Of particular note is the Fables of La Fontaine using simple but effective animation and audio narration. The website also has complementary tools such as a dictionary, translation software, and an interactive language column by linguist Bernard Cerquiglin.
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- http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- German Studies, Languages
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This website has Flash animations of the phonetic sounds of English, German and Spanish. The result of a project by the University of Iowa, it is aimed at students of linguistics, phonetics and languages. Each consonant and vowel has an animated articulatory digram, showing a cross-section of how the human tongue, teeth and lips move when speaking, accompanied by audio of the sound itself. Playing alongside the animations are videos showing a person speaking a selection of words, in order to put the sounds in context. There is also an explanatory diagram of the articulatory anatomy, contributing to a well-designed, useful resource.
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- https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/dashkova
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Languages, Russian Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Named after one of the leading figures of the Russian Enlightenment, the Centre, which is based at the University of Edinburgh, has a number of media resources, including videos and podcasts, on aspects of Russian language, culture, history and politics, and a number of interviews with prominent Russian academics and cultural figures. The Centre also has a YouTube channel which has an archive of the proceedings of recent seminars.
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- https://www.canal-u.tv/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Development Studies, Economics, Engineering, French Studies, General Science, Languages, Literature, Nature, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Sports Science
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Organisations, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
This French website presents a huge variety of audiovisual resources for researchers and those in higher education. The site features over 2,000 films and 4,000 conferences provided by a consortium of French universities. The educational channels cover subjects from the humanities, sciences and social sciences. The videos are supplemented with text, biographical information, contact details and useful links.
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