The Best Language Learning Sites and Content to Import Into LingQ

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this is a persian language science channel, with closed captions in persian! the content is amazing, but they use conversational persian, so be careful

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Of interest to Turkish learners: This website links you to the top 30 Turkish newspaper sites.

And this one links to Turkish TV station web sites:
http://www.turkishculture.org/lifestyles/turkish-culture-portal/radio-tv/tv-channels-in-529.htm?type=1

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Animelon only imports the subtitles but no audio to go with it. Is there going to be a fix for this?

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I’ll double check again with the devs - Some series should be fine, both audio and subs (Usagi Drop for example).

Have you tried https://anisub.tv/ ? LingQ can import both audio and subs from that site’s content.

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English in Levels - https://www.newsinlevels.com/

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Easy languages on youtube, if you become a patron for something like 3$ a month you can download all transcriptions.
Easy German
Easy Italian
Easy Russian
Easy Spanish
Easy Polish

all have amazing street interviews. Highly recommend!

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Excellent French youTube channel, short videos, nicely animated and almost all subtitled.

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The big list of transcribed podcasts and subtitled YouTube channels : French Massive list for French learners.

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Can’t see this posted already, but found much good content here - Category:Audio files by language - Wikimedia Commons

For French we have

  • 132 spoken news articles with transcripts
  • 222 spoken wikipedia articles with transcripts
    Obviously content will vary by language, but seems to be a fairly substantial source for many
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Levels: intermediate to advanced.
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“d’Au Cœur de l’Histoire” podcast for French learners. On the Europe 1 site as simple audio but also on YouTube with subtitles such as here:
Au cœur de l'histoire: Qui a tué Neandertal? (Franck Ferrand) - YouTube

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The DLI GLOSS (Defence Language Institute’s Global Online Language Support System) provides thousands of texts in many languages with recorded audio. You can search for content based on subject and level. Texts have translations.

https://gloss.dliflc.edu

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I was talking with one of my language exchange partners, and I found some of the books from project gutenberg that have been edited as graded readers. For English learners, these might be good sources for people that want to read one of the books at project gutenberg, but for whom the original text is too difficult!

https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/about/staff/paul-nation

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Latin grammar explained:

Japanese grammar explained:

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I just found a Turkish channel that has subtitles in all of their videos, which I’m suprised by because they only have 1.5 K subscribers. Their videos are mostly about travelling.

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In german by far Terra x natur und geshicte Sternengold und der Hauch des Todes | Ganze Folge Terra X mit Dirk Steffens - YouTube

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For Portuguese I found some good stuff:

Speaking Brazilian: https://www.speakingbrazilian.com/blog
Speaking Brazilian Language School - YouTube
She has a youtube channel all in Portuguese with the transcripts available on her blog. Great for high beginner low intermediate as she talks very slow and clear. Also you can get grammar explanations while practicing your listening comprehension at the same time

Impérios AD: Impérios AD - YouTube
I love this channel. It’s great if you are a massive history nerd like me.

These channels I also find entertaining to watch even though they are kind of directed at Brazilians learning English:

SmallAdvantages: SmallAdvantages - YouTube

Tim Explica: Tim Explica - YouTube

I will update this post if I find more.

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For Mandarin: Fragrant Mandarin works very well for those who like travelling videos
Fragrant Mandarin 香橘子 - YouTube

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i currently mostly watch a view youtube channels besides the guided courses on lingq , but once i reach a little higher level wanna get myself a subscribtion to a online library with my target language with audiobooks and the text to work with… but that is still a way ahead :wink: 10 minute travel vlogs with cc are quite enaugh for me at the moment for a full lesson ^^ reaching my daily goal…

but unrelated to this wanted to post a link to the gutenberg project , online library with copyrightfree books
with german / english / french / portuguese language options…
https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page , those should be good to use for anyone and contains a lot of the classics … so hope this is helpfull for some :wink: