Yvette, this is awesome. Is there any way to download the audio, just the audio?

No, not to my knowledge. I'll keep looking around, though.

Hi Steve and Yvette
You can use Audacity to record just the audio.

Fernanda

Korean:

For bibliophiles: Video-interviews, transcripts, beautiful photos...
http://bookshelf.naver.com/

A nice German site, you can find short video with transcript:

http://www.kindernetz.de/

Thanks for the suggestions! Both look very interesting :)

You can find these along with other great resources by going to Tasks --> Import Lesson.

"G.L.O.S.S. online language lessons are developed for independent learners to provide them with the learning/teaching tools for improving their foreign language skills. GLOSS currently offers 2850 reading (RC) and listening (LC) lessons in 24 languages! More lessons are added every month… make sure you check them out."

http://gloss.dliflc.edu/Default.aspx

http://www.dliflc.edu/products.html

http://youtu.be/zUe_Xkzhi3c

Japanese
Videos plus transcript in description
http://www.youtube.com/user/tbsnewsi?feature=g-...

Perhaps I hadn't been sufficiently inquisitive on previous visits to the RFI website, but I have at last discovered several examples of matching text and audio for both Chinese (chinese.rfi.fr) and Russian (russian.rfi.fr). I believe the following are direct links to the pages of two weekly features:

http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/emission/走进法兰西
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/emission/周三特约

The archives go back several months and 5 minutes seemed to be the approximate length of the texts when read.

Though I came away empty handed from the BBC's Russian and Chinese services. a bit of poking around revealed that some matching text and audio is available from Voice of America-Chinese* (voachinese.com) and Radio Free Europe-Russian* (svoboda.org), as well as Radio Canada International-Chinese (http://www.rcinet.ca/zh/category/a-l-affiche/em...). While I had an easier time finding items with matching text and audio on the RFI sites than the others, even at RFI it took a good deal of exploration to hit upon those materials meeting the LingQ ideal.

(*To the best of my knowledge, both are still under the auspices of the USA's Broadcasting Board of Governors.)

For Russian

http://news.kremlin.ru/transcripts

E.g. the other day was almost five hours of transcripted (and translated) video and audio of Putin's live question/answer session.

http://news.kremlin.ru/transcripts/17976

Elliott's suggestion of Svoboda for Russian is quite good.

Doing a google video search for "http://www.svoboda.org/content/transcript/" seems to find the transcripted content quickly.

@keke
Yes, for people who speak Russian and are interested in politics it can be very interesting though I couldn't endure almost 5 hours of this Putin's interview!.. Two hours were for me more than enough!

English:

I've just discovered that the Freakonomics podcasts have transcripts. These would be suitable for advanced English students. My husband listens to them a lot and recommends them highly: http://www.freakonomics.com/tag/freakonomics-po...

@skyblueteapot
Thanks, Helen!
It's interesting - I mean freakonomics!

@skyblueteapot
Thanks a lot!!

Finnish

http://selkosanomat.fi/
http://www.helsinginseutu.fi/hki/HS/Selkosivut/...

Audio is downloadable

@skyblueteapot - freakonomics looks great. Thanks a lot for the link!

I'd like to report that the link for Goethe-Institute under German Resources is currently invalid.
http://www.goethe.de/lrn/prj/gad/fol/deindex.htm

@all - I have now added most of the resources listed above. Feel free to keep the suggestions coming!

@crusade - Thanks, I've now updated this URL so it should be working again.