Podcasts+and+Audio+Resources

[|Audacity: Free audio-editing software] Audacity is a great free program for both editing and recording audio files of different types (e.g., MP3, WAV).

Activities for teaching Spanish through music This website has a list of Spanish-language songs and accompanying activities that teachers have created to teach Spanish through music. Great resource!

[|Audio Drop Box] Highly recommended!! This free application allows you to add a little audio recorder to any website with which your students can make recordings of their voice (e.g., a speaking assignment). You can then access students' audio recordings in your "drop box" through a free account.

[|Vocaroo] You can record an audio file and then immediately post it on the web. It is a free service.

[|Voki] Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages

[|Voxopop] Voxopop is a voice based message board

[|Freeplaymusic.com] Free music you can download.

Podcasts are broadcast on a number of different websites. Podcasts are simply audio files that are made available on the web. Some podcasts are created by media outlets such as the BBC, NPR, [|Radio Nacional Española], [|Radio France], and [|Deutsche Welle], but many are also created by smaller organizations and independent folks. Anyone can create and upload a podcast to the web, in any language, with a little bit of technical knowhow. In order to find available podcasts more easily than simple searching in Google, it's recommended that you install a podcast receiver to your computer. The most popular is Apple iTunes which can be downloaded free of charge from [|here]. Another free program that is a podcast receiver is Juice, downloadable from [|here].
 * Podcasting**

Podcasts may be designed for native speakers of a target language (e.g., Radio France, BBC) or can be educational and intended for language learners. Those podcasts intended for learners are of varying quality and pedagogical value and differ greatly in the extent to which they provide support materials for the audio component. Some sites are commercial, but most offer the actual audio podcasts for free and charge only for the supporting print materials which include grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation exercises. The following are some popular educational (i.e., non-authentic) podcasts for learning French, German, and Spanish:
 * [|Learn French by Podcast]
 * [|Daily French Podcast]
 * [|Deutsche Welle Podcast series]
 * [|Slow German Podcast]
 * [|Notes in Spanish]
 * [|Español Podcast]

[|Top 50 podcasts for learning a FL]


 * Other Sources on the Web for Audio and Video for FL Instruction:**

__Multilanguage__
 * [|Songs for learning new languages] (songs in German, French, and Spanish for teaching languages)
 * [|LangMedia] (lessons and audio/video resources by language and country)

__French__
 * [|Oral Language Archive - French] (audio clips of conversational French with transcripts in French and translations in English--Great site!!)
 * [|French Video Resources] (compilation of videos and corresponding online quizzes in French)

__German__
 * [|Oral Language Archive - German]

__Spanish__
 * [|Oral Language Archive - Spanish] (audio clips of conversational Spanish with transcripts in Spanish and translations in English--Great site!!)
 * [|Spanish Video Resources] (compilation of videos and corresponding online quizzes in Spanish)

@LAN 321 Student podcast resources (Fall 2014)