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The Problems with Listening-Reading L-R | ||
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4831 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 33 of 64 08 September 2013 at 3:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
BTW, despite my earlier comment, I don't question the value of reading texts aloud, and I don't doubt that you improved a great deal along the way. My only worry would be listening to too much of myself reading a TL, and possibly reinforcing my own pronunciation errors. For checking pronunciation (comparing it with a native version), then yes, I would listen. But for improving my pronunciation, I'd want to be listening to native speakers. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7208 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 35 of 64 08 September 2013 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
There are some gems out there. David Barnes on Librivox. There is also the fellow who reads Journey to the Center of the Earth in English. These are a couple of readers who are better than many professionals. Litteratureaudio.com has some good readers as well. The woman who reads Les Liaisons dangereuses has a pleasant voice. I like that on litteratureaudio.com the reader typically does the entire work. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4831 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 36 of 64 08 September 2013 at 11:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'd agree the quality of audiobooks read by volunteers is very variable. Some are actually very good. Some are not so good. Nowadays I prefer commercial ones read by professionals. But more generally (podcasts, etc), so long as the person speaking is a native in the language, and is moderately articulate, I'm happy to listen to them. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tsopivo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4474 days ago 258 posts - 411 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 37 of 64 09 September 2013 at 2:19am | IP Logged | |||||
Do you know anywhere to find audiobooks in Esperanto ? Except for courses, I only found Alice in wonderlands. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6442 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 39 of 64 09 September 2013 at 11:00am | IP Logged | |||||
There are quite a few, but the ones I've found have uniformly been disappointing, unfortunately. There's "Gerda Malaperis" (lernu), "La donaco de la Magoj" (various sources), etc. There are some with quite good content available; Stano Marčekread several classics, from Pushkin and Andersen through Esperanto literature. Unfortunately, he adopted rather 'didactic' intonation throughout. As is common with Esperanto material, there's a lot out there: it's just not centralized, or always easy to acquire. I've heard of a lot of audiobooks that I've never gotten to see. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4831 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 40 of 64 09 September 2013 at 11:06am | IP Logged | |||||
Do you mean her breathiness? I think if she could get that and her microphone sorted out, and stopped sounding so nervous, I could listen to her OK. The professional one that I could find a sample for was obviously better, and the problem is, once you've listened to a few of these, you don't really want to go back to librivox, although, for example, for Effi Briest in German, I was really impressed by some of the readers, and very grateful to find it, at the time. I know how hard doing such recordings is, so I take my hat off to the volunteers, Nevertheless... David Barnes has a good voice and I don't think I could detect any technical problems, but my first experience of him was with Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", a book I loathe, in English and in German, so it put me off him. He's also just a bit too slow for my taste, but perhaps he thought that pace suited the book, as it starts with someone waking up in bed. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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