[olug] Very OT: SCOLA Open House (Y'all Invited)

[DYNATRON tech]

wow! thanks for the info. i like the idea of SCOLA a lot. i'd like to see
what kind of progress they are making. if i can get the time (very busy now)
i would very much like to check out the open house.

On 12/6/06, Thomas D. Williamson <twilliam at inebraska.com> wrote:
>
> I only know of the French broadcast. Once in a while there is another
> broadcast, I don't know which country, but they have English
> overdubbed on parts of the broadcast. It looks strange, the text is in
> an non-Latin script, but the spoken word over it is in English. A key
> purpose of SCOLA is to provide information in the native languages of
> immigrants and for language learners to hear and see how the language
> works in real situations. I think the French and German programming is
> designed by agencies for the purpose of learning language. Much of the
> German programming is labeled as a Deutsche-Welle, which works with
> the Goethe Institute, and the Institute is for learning German.
>
> Tom Williamson
>
> Quoting DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com>:
>
> > sounds like some good programming, but i speak only english. i can kinda
> > follow depending on the language. how much of the programming has
> subtitles?
> >
> >
> > On 12/6/06, Thomas D. Williamson <twilliam at inebraska.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'll catch the German and French broadcasts in the evenings. I can
> >> follow enough German to generally make sense of the broadcast. The
> >> French news segments have English subtitles which makes them easy to
> >> follow. The different perspectives are refreshing from the wholly
> >> American view and lets me see how our actions are seen abroad.
> >>
> >> Although during the prime time, the broadcast is more directed to
> >> medical information mostly originating from UNMC.
> >>
> >> Tom Williamson
> >>
> >> Quoting Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> > I'll watch SCOLA from time to time on ... cox ... channel.... 6 ? 4 ?
> >> > Something like that.  It's not entirely all just local news casts...
> >> > sometimes you'll get technology shows or similar (ie: once, a
> 'german'
> >> time
> >> > slot was a 30ish minute german car tech show about the auto-parking
> or
> >> > auto-driving car stuff about a month before commercials aired here
> about
> >> > it).
> >> >
> >> > It's kinda cool to see the politics, mannerisms and such of other
> >> countries
> >> > (having lived abroad its kinda refreshing).  I do recall watching
> some
> >> south
> >> > american news thing that gave 5-10min to a returning doctor from
> >> Katrina.
> >> > That was narly. Also kinda cool to see Putin and stuff in the Russian
> >> stuff.
> >> >
> >> > Basically, if you're tired of the dribble on G4, the reruns on
> >> adultswim,
> >> > etc, give it a watch, its different.  You'll have to get beyond the
> >> language
> >> > barrier... which some people can't do.
> >> >
> >> > -Will
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