The University of Texas at Austin and Brigham Young University have teemed up to produce a fantastic site called Cultural Interviews with Turkish-Speaking Professionals.  There are literally hundreds of short video interviews with Turkish professionals and executives talking about: professional activities, negotiation practices, courtesy, and stereotypes.  The Turkish is very clear, they speak quite slowly and really well.  As a source of narrow listening it can’t be beat.  Everybody is talking about the same topics!  Check it out today!  And a huge thanks to this website for our first real narrow listening files.  We are slowly getting recordings together here, but don’t yet have enough to put a narrow listening file together.  It is coming though!  For now, check out this great site.  Just click on the tabs at the top and then click on the person you want to listen to.  Each video is accompanied by the transcript of what they are saying as well.  Happy Listening!

 


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octave
05/10/2010 04:17

TTLL is a great site. Thanks for your labors.

In regards to these audio clips, is there a way to assign levels of difficulty to them? I listen to one, but it was too much to process.

Thanks, more grace to you

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Aaron Myers link
05/10/2010 14:19

Octave,

Good suggestion. I will work on that. For now, think of the "handcrafted audio" as for more of a beginner level. The "narrow listening" will be a bit higher of a level because it is authentic Turkish. Hopefully though, the narrow listening aspect of it will make things become more clear by the time you get to the third or fourth respondent. Good luck.
-Aaron

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