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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.

For some ideas on improving your listening skills - click here

LINKS (in alphabetical order)

PORTUGUESE TV

RTP - state-run. Includes RTP Africa and RTP Internacional

SIC - biggest commercial TV network in Portugal

TV Cabo - major cable TV

TVI - commercial

BRAZILIAN TV

NBR - state TV broadcast

Rede Globo - the biggest commercial TV

Rede TV - commercial TV

Sistema Brasileiro de Televisao (SBT) - popular comercial network

TV Band - commercial TV network

TV Cultura - educational and cultural TV

TV Record - commercial TV