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?
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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Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge:
Ar an seastán oíche:Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
Ar an seastán oíche:
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
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Re: French audio courses from 1960s?
I've watched the first 5 episodes of season 1, so within those!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.)
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?
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.
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?
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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Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge:
Ar an seastán oíche:Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
Ar an seastán oíche:
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
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Re: French audio courses from 1960s?
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?
Well spotted Stefan!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.
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Re: French audio courses from 1960s?
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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