Where to find good content to import

Dec. 16, 2010, 5:10 p.m.

[yang_guizi]

808 posts

For many, many languages - Rhinospike offers texts plus audios in different levels and quality. Sometimes the same text was recorded by different people.
You may request to have your own texts recorded, but you never know when you will get the mp3 and in what quality...
You may also do recordings in your native language to help others and shift your own requests a bit upwards in the list

Link:
http://rhinospike.com/language

Dec. 16, 2010, 6:27 p.m.

alex

Administrator
4168 posts

learnchinesepod.com contains audio lessons that include a lot of English. However, the biggest issue is that there is no Chinese text on the site. Pinyin can be imported, but it doesn't work well with LingQing.

I've added Rhinospike to each respective language. Clavis Sinica is already shared in its entirety on the Library. I added dhcca.org, but the other sites, while offering good resources, have little or no importable text that I could find.

Dec. 18, 2010, 2:47 p.m.

actionhank

36 posts

www.newsweekjapan.jp

Newsweek Japan is good if you want just text. The articles are well laid out, instantly familiar if you read the English version and it isn't quite as intimidating as when you look at a Japanese newspaper.

No audio though unfortunately.

Dec. 18, 2010, 7:43 p.m.

alex

Administrator
4168 posts

Thanks, I've added this to the list.

Dec. 18, 2010, 8:06 p.m.

Shigeharu

1715 posts

Free podcast with transcript for French learners (maybe including English) on Radio France International

le talisman brisé
http://www.rfi.fr/cours_de_francais/le_talisman...

Mission Europe
http://www.rfi.fr/lffr/articles/001/fiche_cours...

L'affaire du coffret
http://www.rfi.fr/lfen/pages/001/liste_adc_angl...

Dec. 19, 2010, 8:38 a.m.

adalbertolito

439 posts

I've found this amazing Italian webTV, it's all about technology, tech gadgets and software. They have thousands of videos, all of them come with transcriptions

There are even some english videos (mostly from CNET) subtitled in Italian.

I couldn't import them because they are copyrighted, and they did not allow me to put them on LingQ. But still it's a great resource.

Videos in Italian with transcriptions:

http://video.pmi.it/categorie/format/3/soho/cra...
http://video.pmi.it/categorie/format/3/soho/foc...
http://video.pmi.it/categorie/format/3/soho/sof...
http://video.pmi.it/categorie/format/3/soho/tec...
http://video.pmi.it/categorie/format/3/soho/tek...
http://video.pmi.it/categorie/format/3/soho/web...

Dec. 21, 2010, 6 p.m.

[yang_guizi]

808 posts

Nice children's story in English and Chinese (both with audio):

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

http://www.nciku.com/books/peter_rabbit/

Dec. 22, 2010, 5:17 a.m.

steve

Administrator
9996 posts

While there are no transcripts, for advance learners of English I would recommend the following Canadian story-teller, Stuart McLean.
http://bit.ly/hlJFGN

And for advanced French learners, another Canadian source of very funny material in Quebecois http://www.tetesaclaques.tv/index.php

Dec. 24, 2010, 9:54 a.m.

chikaraishihara

44 posts

English

http://www.bigvisionpodcast.libsyn.com/

Dec. 26, 2010, 9:45 p.m.

alex

Administrator
4168 posts

Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone. I've added these resources (with the exception of a couple).

@chikaraishihara - I'd like to ask the producers of Big Vision Podcast if we can import their stuff into our library. Have you already done this?

Dec. 27, 2010, 12:54 a.m.

chikaraishihara

44 posts

@Alex
Yeah.I have done some. It's great for English learners on Lingq to be able to get the interviews from Lingq-library! Content of the interview is interesting I believe. Thanks!

Dec. 28, 2010, 11:32 a.m.

chikaraishihara

44 posts

Oh, I have never asked the producers. I have just imported some into ''my lessons''.

Jan. 4, 2011, 3:22 p.m.

Cakypa
1674 posts

I've just found business&finance podcasts (English) with transcripts :))
http://www.allbusiness.com/4113395-1.html

Jan. 4, 2011, 10:39 p.m.

alex

Administrator
4168 posts

Thank you both for the great resources. I've sent an email to both bigvisionpodcast and allbusiness.com to request permission to upload their content to our site.

If they refuse then we will just link to them in the Resources section of the import page so that users can import the lessons and use them privately.

March 18, 2011, 8:13 p.m.

maths

461 posts

Don't know if this has been suggested already, but it's a great site, dual texts, plus audio for loads of classic russian poetry.

Russian Poetry:
http://web.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/...

March 18, 2011, 8:37 p.m.