iPods and Russian

[Curtis Ford]

I've been enjoying radio Kultura ( http://cultradio.ru ) for their mix
of news, discussions on culture & current events, readings of poetry &
prose, call-in word games, etc. I often record an hour or so at night,
copy it onto the iPod in the morning, and listen as I drive to work.

They use streaming audio, though, so you need a separate program to
capture the audio, rather than just listening through a browser. On Mac
OS X I use AudioHijack (charming name); it has a timer so I can set my
computer to record their noon program at 4am EST. There must be a
number of similar programs on Windows.

Apparently radio Kultura is planning to set up downloadable archives of
some of its programming (
http://cultradio.ru/forum.html?FID=41&FThrID=110623356978 ), so that
could streamline things and make the additional audio capture program
unnecessary.

-Curt

Dr. Curtis Ford
Instructor of Russian and Linguistics
Dept. of Language, Literatures and Cultures
University of South Carolina

On Apr 9, 2005, at 12:00 AM, SEELANGS automatic digest system wrote:

>
> Date:    Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:14:22 -0400
> From:    Linda Shipley <LShipley at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU>
> Subject: ipods and russian
>
> Is anyone aware of podcasts available in Russian, or any sort of
> downloadable audio files?
>
> Also, I was reading just the other day about how Duke made ipods
> available to all incoming
> freshman.  The Spanish class successfully incorporated this into the
> classroom - I was wondering
> if anyone has been working on using ipods in the Russian classroom?
>
> Thanks,
> Linda

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