Elsewhere
Reading is one half of learning a language; listening is most of the other. These are the podcasts and sites around the four rooms that we listen to ourselves, or that have been kind enough to point their readers here. None of them is a paid placement and none is affiliated with the reader — they are simply worth your evening.
French
- Join Us in France
- Annie Sargent’s podcast about travelling in France — its history, its regions and its ways — with a magazine segment where French life is talked about by people who live it. The place to hear the France the tales in the French room come from.
- French Mornings with Elisa
- A podcast in slow, natural French about French life, for learners who want to hear the language before they read it.
- Omniglot — French links
- Simon Ager’s long-standing directory of resources for French, one language among the hundreds his site describes.
German
- Easy German
- Street interviews in Berlin with German and English subtitles, and a podcast beside them — the listening half of what the German room does on the page.
- History of the Germans
- A long-form history of Germany told from the Ottonians onward, episode by episode, for listeners who want the country behind the language.
- Omniglot — German links
- Omniglot’s directory for German, which lists this reader among its resources for learning German through fairy tales.
Spanish
- Spanish Language Coach
- César’s podcast for intermediate learners — clear Spanish on everyday subjects, with transcripts.
- Easy Spanish
- Street interviews with subtitles, from Spain and across Latin America, and a podcast for learners.
- Dreaming Spanish
- Comprehensible-input video from absolute beginner upward — Spanish you can follow before you can read it.
- Omniglot — Spanish links
- Omniglot’s directory for Spanish, which lists the Spanish room.
Russian
- The Chekhov Podcast
- Club Chekhov — Alex Burry and Lev Lesokhin read through Chekhov’s complete works, one story an episode. The stories they have reached are paired with the Russian originals on the Club Chekhov page.
- The Eurasian Knot
- Sean Guillory’s podcast on Russia and Eurasia, past and present — history, politics and culture in long conversations.
- Omniglot — Russian links
- Omniglot’s directory for Russian, the first place on the open web to list this reader.
Where the reader has been written about
An interview with Five Books on learning Russian through its literature, and the five books behind this reader.
If you run a podcast or a site for learners and would like to be listed here, or would like to point your readers to a room, write to Tom.