Studying On Your Own in the LLC
Telecourses and Audio with Books
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Studying On Your Own in the LLC Telecourses and Audio with Books |
| The primary role of
the LLC is to provide multimedia support for instructors teaching language
courses at UF, and for their students. Most of our audio
and video materials are designed to accompany textboks and lab manuals
used in a course guided by an instructor.
Over the years we have accumulated a library of audio and video materials for language study. Thus, a strongly motivated independent student might be able to design for him or herself a course of self-study in certain languages. In some cases, the student would need to obtain a copy of the textbook and/or lab manual. In a few cases, we have the books in the lab. Most of the materials appropriate for self-study are kept in the LLC and may not be removed. Some of them require that the student leave an ID card while using the item, others are freely available. |
1. Video materials. The best
option for learning a language, or for "brushing up" before travel or other
live encounters, is video material. The elementary courses include some
"talking heads" and visual analysis of grammar, usage, and vocabulary.
Both elementary and higher level videos offer a form of immersion, with
no English, so that the student has some of the benefits of a classroom
situation where context allows rapid understanding of unfamiliar words.
| Language | Elementary Video
(mostly telecourses designed to teach grammar and usage, with accompanying books) |
Intermediate/Advanced Video
(mostly authentic materials, e.g. news clips, without subtitles, but with study guides and transcriptions) |
| Arabic | Access to Arabic (1 tape, no book) | |
| American Sign Language | A Panic Course in Signing (1 tape, introduction to signing by Mike Tuccelli) | 23 course tapes from Florida First Coast Signing Videos (mostly memoirs and cultural history with no voiced comment) |
| Chinese | Chinese Sound Table (1 tape) | Chinese Breakthrough, videotape to accompany the Newspaper Chinese course. |
| English | Connect with English (1997), 48 15-min episodes (with books) | Perfect English Pronunciation (2 tapes) |
| French | French in Action (1987), 52 1/2-hour episodes (with book) | France Panorama,
a news magazine (1988-98; property of Romance Languages and Literatures)
56 tapes of newsclips, arranged by subject matter, with study guide for
each tape.
French commericals & French Music Videos, 30-min. videos from McGraw Hill |
| German | Alles Gute (1989), a 26-episode telecourse from Inter Nationes- Goethe Institute (with book) | Streifzüge durch die deutsche Kulturgeschichte (1991) 52 15-min. episodes, each on a different German town |
| Greek: | Greek Language and People, 10 episodes | |
| Italian | In Italiano, 25-episode telecourse (with book) | Ecco l'Italia,
clips from RAI news (1990-91)
Attualità, news clips (1 tape) |
| Portuguese | Travessia, 12 episodes (with books). | |
| Russian | Contact (1990) 14 tapes of Soviet Russian newsclips, arranged by subject matter, with transcript for each tape. | |
| Spanish | Destinos (1992-3), 52 1/2-hour episodes (with book). | |
2. Audio materials with text.
For most of these books, we have one copy of the book and one set of audiotapes.
These materials must be used in the lab.
| Language | Note: except for the Arabic, these materials are not currently used in UF courses. |
| Arabic | Alif-Baa, Al-Kitaab: video and audio tapes, older copies of book. |
| Chinese | Speaking Chinese in China |
| English | Pronouncing American
English
American English Pronunciation Pronunciation Pairs Quest: Listening and Speaking in the Academic World Jazz Chants Sounds and Rhythm Mosaic Interactions Northstar Listening and Speaking |
| Finnish | Finnish for Foreigners
1 and 2 (book and tape series)
Teach Yourself Finnish (book only) |
| Greek | Demotic Greek |
| Norwegian | Spoken Norwegian |
| Portuguese | Com Licença
, Brazilian Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
Fast Track European Portuguese Leituras Brasileiras Contemporaneas |
| Spanish | Living Language Spanish:
A Conversational Approach to Verbs
Patterns of Spanish Pronunciation (Bowen & Stockewell) |
| Yoruba | Yorùbá dùn ún so, book one |
3. Audio materials for UF courses, current and recent. You can get copies of the books used in the UF elementary and intermediate courses from the bookstore, and make use of audio and video materials we keep in the lab for students in these courses.
4. Computer Programs. We have some computer programs on our Mac computers which are helpful for students beginning the following languages:
