French audio courses from 1960s?

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French audio courses from 1960s?

Postby DaveAgain » Thu Sep 01, 2022 10:59 am

I've been watching the Norwegian TV series Lykkeland (UK title: State of Happiness) recently. One of the characters, a secretary, is teaching herself French using an audio course. I think we only hear French audio from the tape, but I could be wrong.

Any ideas as to what courses would have been available to her in the late 1960s?
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Re: French audio courses from 1960s?

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Thu Sep 01, 2022 11:44 am

DaveAgain wrote:I've been watching the Norwegian TV series Lykkeland (UK title: State of Happiness) recently. One of the characters, a secretary, is teaching herself French using an audio course. I think we only hear French audio from the tape, but I could be wrong.

Any ideas as to what courses would have been available to her in the late 1960s?


Which season/episode? I watched the first season three years ago, and the second one just a month ago. (Maybe they are still available online.)
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Re: French audio courses from 1960s?

Postby DaveAgain » Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:01 pm

jeff_lindqvist wrote:
DaveAgain wrote:I've been watching the Norwegian TV series Lykkeland (UK title: State of Happiness) recently. One of the characters, a secretary, is teaching herself French using an audio course. I think we only hear French audio from the tape, but I could be wrong.

Any ideas as to what courses would have been available to her in the late 1960s?


Which season/episode? I watched the first season three years ago, and the second one just a month ago. (Maybe they are still available online.)
I've watched the first 5 episodes of season 1, so within those!

They're available on the BBC iPlayer, and Danish, and Norwegian TV services; I can't watch any of these from my laptop, but I can watch the BBC one on my TV.

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At the start of S01E02, about 1 minute in, we see her listening to, and repeating aloud from an audio cassette.
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Re: French audio courses from 1960s?

Postby guyome » Thu Sep 01, 2022 2:49 pm

Timestamp on Arte's youtube channel (no idea if that's geoblocked for users outside of France/Germany):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSi2tHMrsEY&t=89s

I tried putting the sentences in Google and archive.org but couldn't get any results.
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Re: French audio courses from 1960s?

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Thu Sep 01, 2022 3:12 pm

The clip works fine, but I couldn't find anything either (on Google/archive.org). I remember that some people studied French in the Danish series Matador (and that course I was able to find).
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Re: French audio courses from 1960s?

Postby Stefan » Thu Sep 01, 2022 11:29 pm

guyome wrote:Timestamp on Arte's youtube channel (no idea if that's geoblocked for users outside of France/Germany):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSi2tHMrsEY&t=89s

I tried putting the sentences in Google and archive.org but couldn't get any results.


At 1:57, next to the machine, there's a cassette tape case which I read as "Linguaphone".

There's a dedicated thread for this course if you're interested to learn more:
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... php?t=3249

With that said, my eyes might mislead me. I guess it's even possible that they recorded a few phrases themselves just to avoid any copyright issues.
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Re: French audio courses from 1960s?

Postby DaveAgain » Fri Sep 02, 2022 1:15 am

Stefan wrote:
guyome wrote:Timestamp on Arte's youtube channel (no idea if that's geoblocked for users outside of France/Germany):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSi2tHMrsEY&t=89s

I tried putting the sentences in Google and archive.org but couldn't get any results.


At 1:57, next to the machine, there's a cassette tape case which I read as "Linguaphone".

There's a dedicated thread for this course if you're interested to learn more:
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... php?t=3249

With that said, my eyes might mislead me. I guess it's even possible that they recorded a few phrases themselves just to avoid any copyright issues.
Well spotted Stefan! :-)
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Re: French audio courses from 1960s?

Postby Elexi » Sun Sep 11, 2022 5:39 pm

It may say Linguaphone on the tape box - but it doesn't sound like the content from any Linguaphone French course of that era. The 'listen to a sentence, press stop and repeat' method is also not really Linguaphone's methodology (although such exercises occasionally appear in some of their exercises in some courses - but it is more a 'read/recite from memory in the pauses' type exercise, rather than listen, stop, repeat), so I think the 'course' here is recorded for the TV series, rather than an actual Linguaphone language course.
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