Great Czech Television Resource; anything comparable for other Slavic Languages?

[Steven Clancy]

Dear SEELANGers,

I wanted to let everyone know about the truly excellent archived  
television resources of CT1 available on the web. I've been using  
this site in my Czech classes this quarter and it is simply the best  
quality streaming web video I've seen, period. It's equal to what you  
see for downloadable movie trailers. The only drawback is that you  
can only watch the content as live streaming video over Real Player  
or Windows Media Player, which makes it difficult to pause and rewind  
easily or to go to a specific segment (but it's not impossible).

http://www.czech-tv.cz/vysilani/

The site features a full archive of around 67(!) television shows for  
the past three months, featuring everything from game shows to  
fishing programs to cooking shows to shows for the hearing impaired  
with sign language and subtitles. I've particularly found the David  
Letterman/Jay Leno clone talk show, Uvolněte se, prosím, to be very  
useful and also a game show, A-Z Kvíz (for grown ups) and A-Z Kvíz  
Junior (for kids; and yes, we usually watch the kid version). There  
are so many shows available that we haven't managed to even check out  
all the options this quarter. The talk show is also great for seeing  
all kinds of spoken Czech varieties as well as Slovak (one we watched  
today was the Prague-speaking Czech host interviewing a Slovak TV  
personality; we've also seen some Moravian as well).

Does anyone know of any other comparable sites for other Slavic  
languages, particularly Russian, Polish, BCS? Again, this is very  
high quality video in great quantity as well, all available free and  
on demand. I've not seen anything like it elsewhere, but hopefully  
this is the wave of the future for great resources for language  
teaching.

Enjoy,

Steven

Steven Clancy
Senior Lecturer in Russian, Slavic, and 2nd-Language Acquisition
Academic Director, U of C Language Resource Center
Director, Slavic Language Program

University of Chicago
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

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