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Authentic French, Spanish, and English Video Clips
From Television, Film and Music!
Accessible to students, faculty, staff and alumni of University of Michigan.
[Registration Necessary; it's FREE! ]
- Work on your Listening Comprehension Skills!
- Watch authentic French, Spanish, and English video clips from television, film and music!
- Listen to authentic materials at different speeds!
- Choose whether you want subtitles and/or translations!
Introducing Yabla for Spanish, French and English as a Second Language!
The University of Michigan Language Resource Center is pleased to provide access to authentic Video Clips in Spanish, French, and English. It’s fun and easy to use!
-Over 80 clips for Spanish
-Over 60 clips for French
-Over 20 clips for ESL
Here’s what Yabla says about its programming:
“Yabla videos come from contemporary television, film and music, videos intended for native speakers and made by native speakers. First and foremost the material in our products is engaging, entertaining, and real, the very same material that natives are watching every day for information and entertainment. Clips span the geo-political world that calls each language its own, providing exposure to a wide variety of accents and dialects. Because it is fun, entertaining, informative, and always changing, learners return regularly and frequently, progressing rapidly.”
There’s also a “ Yabla Game” feature for each video clip with vocabulary recognition activities, by which you can practice your listening skills.
Click Here to Try the Demos! [Full UofM access is only available with registration – it’s free!]
Click here to register and subscribe to Michigan’s Yabla Spanish Clips
Click here to register and subscribe to Michigan’s Yabla French Clips
Click here to register and subscribe to Michigan’s Yabla ESL Clips
Want to just use Yabla at the LRC? Ask at the front desk.
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Want/Need Directions??
1. Click on the appropriate link below to enter one of Michigan’s Yabla sites, choosing the language you’re interested in studying (ie: French, Spanish, or English).
2. Once at the language page, click " Subscribe " in the blue bar along the top of the page.
3. Read the product information and hit “ Continue>>” on the bottom left.
4. Create a username and password that you will remember and click “ Continue>>”
5. Provide the basic information about yourself to complete the registration and subscription.
Note: Please click “Student”, if you are not a UofM language instructor.
Click on “ Continue>>”.
6. Your request will then be confirmed with an email that states:
" Your request has been submitted to the French/Spanish/ESL.umich.yabla.com administrator. You will receive an email when your subscription request has been approved."
The LRC will process your registration and subscription request. Please note, although the turn around time on requests is fairly quick, response time will be slower on weekends, holidays, and late-nights.
While you wait, you may want to go back and try the other demos for your language!
Once your subscription has been processed, you will get an email that states:
“Request for access to Yabla has been approved. You may now go to http://lang_name.umich.yabla.com
Username: userNameSample
Password: passwordSample”
After that you’re all set!
You’ll be able to access the specific language materials until the end of the semester.
Click here to register and subscribe to Michigan’s Yabla Spanish Clips
Click here to register and subscribe to Michigan’s Yabla French Clips
Click here to register and subscribe to Michigan’s Yabla ESL Clips
Why do I need to register or subscribe, if it’s free? Good question! The LRC pays an annual subscription fee to Yabla in order to make this resource available to the UofM language learning community. The registration process is necessary to verify membership in the UofM community and to count the number of users (and, thus, the amount the LRC will pay). We thank you for your understanding. - - - - - - Why do I have to wait for my subscription to be processed? As part of the registration process, we need to verify membership in the UofM community. This means a member of the LRC staff must actually cross-check the request with the umich directory and update the membership database. We thank you for your patience. - - - - - - Can anyone register or subscribe? The Yabla video clips will be available to anyone in the University of Michigan (umich) community – undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, alumni! - - - - - - Will my access last forever? No. You will have access for the current semester. Just like a library book, it will be possible to renew your subscription for the next semester. We will, however, want to weed out the list of non-active users in order to make room for other people who want to have access. |