Documentaries in French, Italian and German

Anyone could recomend any interesting documentaries in these languages? Anything about history, architecture, biographies would be great. I always find documentaries useful because they speak slow, while at the same time using a wide vocabulary. I also get motivated when I learn the language and the culture at the same time, for example learning about Leonardo Da Vinci in italian , watching a french revoultion documentary in french etc.

Edit: If anyone could recommend youtube channels or podcasts that would be great too.

It’s quite on the nose but there is Arte. It is a Franco-German tv station that consist of documentaries in a few different fields. Last time, most of there docs where either in french or German and there where subtitles in the other language and usually in Spanish, English and maybe another languages as well.

For podcasts here are a few, although it is ages since I have listen to them if at all.

There is also quite a lot of ARD docus but I couldn’t figure out how to get to them but if you google ARD docus you should find some.

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Thank you, I really liked ARTE : chaîne télé culturelle franco-allemande - TV direct & replay on the top right you can change the language, so you can watch the same documentary on six different languages. It’s content seems very interesting, I’ll definitely use it.

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It’s quite on the nose but there is Arte. It is a Franco-German tv station that consist of documentaries in a few different fields. Last time, most of there docs where either in french or German and there where subtitles in the other language and usually in Spanish, English and maybe another languages as well.

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A few German youtube channels I use
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH0ZriOzoWURa9MyEthNKBg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEyTnLuok9E-abcwDy_yNGw

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Holá Patrício,
Creo que un canal que quizas podrĂ­as intentar es este:
vpro world stories:

Yo escribo desde Brasil! Buerna suerte con tuyos estĂşdios!!!

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The Loescher Editore channel on YouTube has short documentaries in French, German, and Italian. Many of the videos have subtitles, and some are graded (A2, B1, etc).

muchas gracias, una pequeña corrección: “tus estudios” en lugar de “tuyos estúdios”

Gracias PatrĂ­cio!!!

Entonces queda: Yo escribo desde Brasil! Buena suerte con tus estudios!!!
Si puede decir también: Buna onda! No?! Gracias!

buena onda tiene otro significado, significa que una persona es agradable

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MuchĂ­ssimas gracias Patricio!

But I wonder what about Sicilian?? I know that it’s distinct from Italian and I don’t know where I start. I took a lot of inspiration from this walking tour: Taormina Walking Tour & Greek Theatre: One Day Itinerary - Sicily Activities, now I’m really interested!

Thank you gbvr for the links.

The regional dialects are fading away in Italy. Some of the older people still speak the regional dialect, but most of the younger people only use the regional dialect at home (if at all).

On my experience learning Italian, there are many young people who don’t even speak their regional dialect, some may understand it, but many do not speak it fluently. Italian is used in all formal situations, dialect is mostly for the elderly.

Does anyone know of any Swedish material I can import into lingQ with audio?

  1. You can find doumentaries in Swedish here:
    https://www.svtplay.se/
    They have very accurate subtitles, but you can’t import them here automatically.
  2. Some interesting documentaries in Swedish, sadly without subtitles:
    youtube, search for “kalla fakta”
  3. One interesting documentary about the Vasa sinking in 1628:
    Wasa 1628 Part 1 - YouTube
    Vasa 1628 Part 2 of 2 - YouTube
    Again, no subtitles.

I appreciate it very much, Thank You.

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