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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 305 of 432 19 April 2014 at 8:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
I mentioned in the signup thread that there is audio of someone reading the entire Green New Testament. While it's great that someone made all that effort, she has such a strong American accent that I just couldn't use it (and I'm American myself). I'm still waiting for someone to dub Troy in Ancient Greek.... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 306 of 432 19 April 2014 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Have you checked project gutenberg and the like? I know this sort of sites has recordings in Old English and Latin. Edited by Serpent on 19 April 2014 at 8:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| YnEoS Senior Member United States Joined 4255 days ago 472 posts - 893 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish | Message 307 of 432 19 April 2014 at 10:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Not the cheapest but looks like you could get 60+ hours of ancient greek audio from Stephen Daitz recordings.
[Disclaimer: No idea what the quality of these is like or even if this is the best place to purchase them] The Pronunciation and Reading of Ancient Greek The Iliad of Homer The Odyssey of Homer Selections from the Greek Orators (Demosthenes, Gorgias, Lysias) Plato's Portrait of Sokrates (Apology, Krito, Phaido) Euripides' Hekabe Aristophanes' Birds A Recital of Greek Poetry 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 308 of 432 20 April 2014 at 12:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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@YnEoS: I strongly recommend that you sign up for a regular full challenge only now in the beginning, and
that you change it to a double later if you see that this is feasible. I do not know if the bot can handle double challenges, but Surrealix has been absolutely wonderful in making magic with the bot, so I would not be surprised if it could. @Serpent: Since the bot handled half challenges before, I suppose it could, but again, this is something Surrealix would have to answer :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 309 of 432 20 April 2014 at 12:36am | IP Logged | |||||
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Yeah but does he know that you changed your mind about abolishing all the different types of challenges and decided to keep the half/full distinction?
Also how will the ribbons be handled now that you've made the change? 2 half challenges equal one full one? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 310 of 432 20 April 2014 at 12:59am | IP Logged | |||||
I do not know if he knows, but he tends to follow the discussion fairly closely. I'll have to get back to you on the ribbons. Fortunately I have 20 months to think it through :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 311 of 432 20 April 2014 at 2:31am | IP Logged | |||||
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Well but it has to be consistent with how the ribbons for the previous challenge are handled.
Anyway, I tweeted @ surrealix about this and about accessing the forum :-) Just hope he'll see that. I've already tweeted at you and @langchallenge but seems like neither of you noticed :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5396 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 312 of 432 20 April 2014 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
I planned and planned how I *wanted* to do it, and the schedule I *wanted* to follow, but the best advice I have is JUST DO IT. Yep, I stole that from Nike. :D Pick something interesting somewhere near your current level, and dive in. Depending on your level and the material you pick, you will have new words. Maybe lots of them. Look them up. Learn them - at least enough to recognize them. Whether you do that by writing out lists, Lingq, a notebook, post-it notes around your house, Anki, or whatever, just do it. The more you read, the more words you will come across. And if you are reading books you will come across the same words over and over again. It's how authors work. Learn them, at least enough to recognize them when you see them. Then, you will notice - it is like magic - it will get a little easier to read. (This has a lot to do with how many words you have just learned!) And as you move onto other books - ones that are harder, or are in a different genre, or just moving on to another author, you will learn more words. That's what worked for me, anyway. I don't know - maybe a schedule will help you. Some people live by them. My life is unpredictable, so nothing ever goes according to plan. :) Don't be disappointed if you can't get through 5% of the reading the first month though. Your reading will improve A LOT over the course of 5,000 pages, so you will be reading faster and easier by the end. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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