shapd Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6147 days ago 126 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Modern Hebrew, French, Russian
| Message 97 of 245 11 February 2008 at 7:11am | IP Logged |
Sorry if I upset the Russian members of the forum. I didn't mean to imply that the entire country was behind the times.
It is just strange that the files on russianbooks.ulitka.com download at 12kB/sec. It is not my connection, since the files from liberliber download at over 300kB/sec. Either it is something I am doing wrong or the supplier has restricted the speed for some reason. The files for the Akunin I was trying are also split into 2-3MB sections of about 5 minutes spoken word each, so there are 125 files for the entire book, some of them duplicated! I think I will just give up and buy it.
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Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6146 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes
| Message 98 of 245 12 February 2008 at 10:59am | IP Logged |
Alright, thanks!
BTW, are the RAI recordings abridged?
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6437 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 99 of 245 12 February 2008 at 2:39pm | IP Logged |
amphises wrote:
Alright, thanks!
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The 'Terzo Anello' ones are heavily modified, and basically turned into radio plays; narrative description is largely taken out.
The 'Fantasticamente' series tentatively seem much better (I've only checked out a few seconds of the first Tolstoj one: it matches the text at http://www.readme.it/libri/9/9004020.shtml exactly, as far as my limited listening shows).
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6437 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 100 of 245 15 February 2008 at 4:24pm | IP Logged |
CaitO'Ceallaigh wrote:
I can't find your original thread that you had started, so forgive me if this is repeat. I've just found an all-inclusive website with Russian parallel texts with audio.
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/russian/Ruslang/authors.html
I right-click to open the parallel text in a separate window. And I tried listening while reading in English. It's strange: I listened and read in Russian, and I understood, passively. I even shadowed it with Russian text. But only while listening and reading in English that I actually made a connection. I will forever now know that oko za oko, zub za zub means eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. I would never have imprinted that in my brain otherwise.
This is after a two minute listen.
I also found some Russian texts here:
http://www.lib.ru
Mikhail Bulgakov's page actually as some English translations.
http://www.lib.ru/BULGAKOW/
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(Copied from PM, with permission).
Thanks! I'm not adding lib.ru to the main post, as it's of mixed legality, but I'll add az.lib.ru, a subdomain devoted to public domain Russian classics.
Edited by Volte on 15 February 2008 at 4:27pm
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Alfonso Octoglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 6859 days ago 511 posts - 536 votes Speaks: Biblical Hebrew, Spanish*, French, English, Tzotzil, Italian, Portuguese, Ancient Greek Studies: Nahuatl, Tzeltal, German
| Message 101 of 245 16 February 2008 at 1:57pm | IP Logged |
I posted some weeks ago on the "Links & Internet Resources" section of this forum:
www.wordproject.org
which contains the Bible (both audio and script) in:
* Portugues,
* Spanish,
* French,
* Russian,
* Italian,
* Mandarin traditional,
* Mandarin simplfied, and
* Mandarin romanized
Maybe it's a good idea to include this link in this audiobooks catalog, just in case someone is interested in.
Edited by Alfonso on 16 February 2008 at 2:00pm
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6437 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 102 of 245 16 February 2008 at 3:06pm | IP Logged |
Alfonso wrote:
I posted some weeks ago on the "Links & Internet Resources" section of this forum:
www.wordproject.org
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Added, thanks.
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MarcoDiAngelo Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 6445 days ago 208 posts - 345 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Thai, Polish
| Message 103 of 245 28 February 2008 at 5:41am | IP Logged |
Italian audiobooks:
here
Edited by MarcoDiAngelo on 28 February 2008 at 5:43am
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MarcoDiAngelo Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 6445 days ago 208 posts - 345 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Thai, Polish
| Message 104 of 245 28 February 2008 at 5:49am | IP Logged |
Pinocchio in Italian:
Pinocchio
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