Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4899 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 1 of 9 01 January 2013 at 11:14pm | IP Logged |
I am getting ready to begin tackling Harry Potter in French, and I'd like to do it with the audio, but I don't want to buy the audiobook if it is abridged. I have found Harry Potter a L'Ecole des Sorciers on mp3 CD on Amazon.co.uk, but there is no indication if it is complete or abridged. Does anyone know?
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sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4549 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish
| Message 2 of 9 02 January 2013 at 12:30am | IP Logged |
The length indicated on the publisher's JEUNESSE/Ecoutez-lire/Harry-Potter-a-l-ecole-des-sorciers">w ebsite is 'about 8 hours', which is suspiciously
short for a 300–400-page(?) book. In spite of this, there's no mention of the audio book being abridged, which is
fairly essential information, so I'm not sure what to think.
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Heh, not sure how I managed to miss the 'texte intégrale'. On the bright side, I guess I was still half-right thanks to
the unintentionally clever wording of my post. ;-)
Edited by sans-serif on 02 January 2013 at 6:38pm
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4899 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 3 of 9 02 January 2013 at 12:35am | IP Logged |
Thank you for that link. The description there does say, "Texte intégral", which I assume means the complete text?
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newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6369 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 4 of 9 02 January 2013 at 4:08am | IP Logged |
sans-serif wrote:
The length indicated on the publisher's website is 'about 8 hours', which is suspiciously short for a 300–400-page(?) book. In spite of this, there's no mention of the audio book being abridged, which is fairly essential information, so I'm not sure what to think. |
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It sounds about right, more or less. The first book in Italian is 9.2 hours.
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newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6369 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 5 of 9 02 January 2013 at 4:17am | IP Logged |
Jeffers wrote:
Thank you for that link. The description there does say, "Texte intégral", which I assume means the complete text? |
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Yes, according to the list of audiobook terminology Volte compiled: audiobook terminology.
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Valy Newbie France Joined 4338 days ago 39 posts - 47 votes Speaks: French* Studies: English, German, Spanish, Mandarin
| Message 6 of 9 02 January 2013 at 9:45am | IP Logged |
My daughter has it since Christmas. It's unabridged. No worries. It's clearly written at the back of it "texte
intégral".
There's only the mp3 on the CDs. You can copy it on any mp3 reader but it can't be listened through a normal
CD player.
Edited by Valy on 02 January 2013 at 9:53am
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Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4629 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian
| Message 7 of 9 02 January 2013 at 3:30pm | IP Logged |
Hi Valy, depending on what software you have on your computer, you should be able to copy the mp3 files onto your PC and then burn audio CDs from there. I guess you would need a few CDs for eight hours...
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emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5522 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map
| Message 8 of 9 02 January 2013 at 4:41pm | IP Logged |
Several years ago, my wife bought me an unabridged French audiobook of Harry Potter. It's just over 8 hours long.
I did some listening/reading with chapter one, and found only one or two sentences that didn't match the text. Some of the voices are a little silly, but overall it's a good choice for L/R.
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