Uzbeck

[Marissa Polsky]

For the intermediate level (or a  motivated beginner), you can try CenAsiaNet.  It is a website for teaching the Central Asian languages.  It uses authentic news broadcasts to test listening, as well as other types of exercises - vocabulary, grammar, etc.  

The website is at http://www.cenasianet.org/.  New users need to register, but the site is free.  The registration is only there so that the user can keep track of his/her score every time s/he returns to the exercises.  Also, when you go through the registration process, the site will help you go through the steps to make sure your computer has all the necessary fonts and plug-ins to read and watch the material (although for Uzbek there is no required font - it is all in Latin).   The apple QuickTime plug-in is required for viewing the video.  It is available at http://www.quicktime.com.  If you are not sure whether you have it or not, just go through the setup on CenAsiaNet and you can find out and get the plug-in from there.

Once you are through with registration, just choose the language Uzbek, and you are on your way.  There are 3 different lessons to choose from, each constituting of about  30 minutes of video material, divided into several smaller clips in order to ease loading time.  

If you have any questions about the exercises, just let me know, off-list.





Marissa Polsky
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Web Applications Developer
ACIE: ACTR/ACCELS
http://www.russnet.org/home.html
(202) 833-7522

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