Advice

With the development of satellite television, it is now possible to receive television programmes in most of the main languages in any home, office, school or university.  Watching television is an excellent way of developing listening skills and learning about the target culture.  Most programmes are designed for native speakers of the target language, but some are made specifically for language learners.  The BBC makes a great range of programmes for language learning on BBC2 Learning Zone. and Channel 4 has an excellent range of resources for learning French, German and Spanish for students of 9 to 19 on it's Extra site.

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Channel 4 has an excellent range of resources for learning French, German and Spanish for students of 9 to 19 on it's Extra site

LINKS (in alphabetical order)

ITI – tvn international, satelite channel for Polish living abroad

MTV – Polish MTV

POLSAT – private commercial channel

TV4 – private channel

TVN – the biggest Polish private television provider

TVN24 – 24 hours news channel

TVN Meteo – information on the weather

TVN Siedem – leisure channel (films and leisure programmes)

TVP – Polish public television channels:

TVP1 - channel 1

TVP2 - channel 2

TVP3 - channel 3 (regional and local information)

TVP KULTURA – cultural channel