My New Favorite Listening Resource: Al-Jazeera's Children's Channel Website
I'm consistently amazed at how much wealth DLI fails to share with its students. Six months into my Arabic course, I'm still discovering new resources that I should have learned about on Day 1. Today my MLI introduced our class to my new favorite resource: www.jcctv.net, the website of Al-Jazeera's children's channel.
I've watched quite a bit of Al-Jazeera Lal-Atfal in the past on 3arabtv. As a new student I liked watching cartoons that used basic, highly repetitive vocabulary, but the channel had disadvantages. The sound quality on 3arabtv isn't superb, and many cartoon characters speak in high squeaky voices.
But the Al-Jazeera Lal-Atfal website is superb. It contains dozens of high-quality videos with crisp, articulate Arabic speakers. Our class is in currently in a Sports, Hobbies & Entertainment unit, so today our MLI directed us to a section of the website where we could find dozens of episodes of an educational TV show about sports. Each episode featured one or two different sports. Our MLI said the website contains lots of other useful educational programming, such as Science & Technology. I'm looking forward to digging into the site more.
I've watched quite a bit of Al-Jazeera Lal-Atfal in the past on 3arabtv. As a new student I liked watching cartoons that used basic, highly repetitive vocabulary, but the channel had disadvantages. The sound quality on 3arabtv isn't superb, and many cartoon characters speak in high squeaky voices.
But the Al-Jazeera Lal-Atfal website is superb. It contains dozens of high-quality videos with crisp, articulate Arabic speakers. Our class is in currently in a Sports, Hobbies & Entertainment unit, so today our MLI directed us to a section of the website where we could find dozens of episodes of an educational TV show about sports. Each episode featured one or two different sports. Our MLI said the website contains lots of other useful educational programming, such as Science & Technology. I'm looking forward to digging into the site more.
posted by Reach 364 at
9:27 PM
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Exactly: articulate speakers (usually) who repeat the vocab several times with visual aids. Example: I watched a five minute clip about archery, and after the first minute I knew the words فوس and سهم(bow and arrow), used by three different speakers in clear but differently accented Arabic. It's really ممتاز.
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