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| FSI Senior Member United States Joined 6356 days ago 550 posts - 590 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 41 of 245 15 July 2007 at 5:42pm | IP Logged |
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I tried the links as well, and haven't gotten any of them to work. The site is still a fine source of Portuguese ebooks, but it appears useless for audiobooks.
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| JasonChoi Diglot Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6356 days ago 274 posts - 298 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Latin | Message 42 of 245 16 July 2007 at 10:01am | IP Logged |
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For Korean learners, it seems audio books are mostly in English, or there are Korean audio books but those books are generally written in Korean.
However, I have a friend who will help me find at least something. Since my I could brush up on my Korean, if worse comes to worst, I'll see if I can get a native speaker who is willing to literally record his/her own voice so as make my own audio book. It's about time I dramatically improve my fluency. :) Edited by JasonChoi on 16 July 2007 at 10:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| aru-aru Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6454 days ago 244 posts - 331 votes Speaks: Latvian*, English, Russian | Message 43 of 245 16 July 2007 at 10:42am | IP Logged |
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Portuguese: I am not having much luck with finding audiobooks and matching text either.
The best so far would be, i guess, the little prince from this site: http://www.podcast1.com.br/canal.php?codigo_canal=2142 I have the little prince .mp3 starting from part 6, but as the new parts are added, the previous ones disappear. Now it seems that part 12 is the last of the "old" ones surviving. Texts: http://www.triplov.org/walkyria/saint_exupery/capitulo1.html http://home.kc.rr.com/slyon/por.html The text seems to really be matching, i checked chapter 6. English: http://www.24en.com/fun/soul/2006-01-08/3390.html Now an Agatha Christie novel is being added. I have not found a matching text yet. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6436 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 45 of 245 17 July 2007 at 8:20am | IP Logged |
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There are -tons- of audiobooks, including translations of English books, in Korean, or so some quick searching of the word '오디오북' (Korean for 'audiobook') suggests to me (unless there are quite a few Koreans who enjoy putting the word in the filenames of English audiobooks, in English, which is possible, but doesn't seem that likely). Unfortunately, I've only been able to find articles about audiobooks, file lists, and clearly pirate sources. I can't read Korean (not even the Hangul, much less for content), so I can't easily refine my queries to find good hits either. Hopefully someone else here can and will!
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| JasonChoi Diglot Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6356 days ago 274 posts - 298 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Latin | Message 46 of 245 17 July 2007 at 9:34am | IP Logged |
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I've done a search on major korean sites for audio books, but I haven't seen a single audio book in Korean, with an English translation. But there are plenty of Korean audio books, but without any translations.
There are also korean books with English translations, but no audio book. Is this confusing yet?? hehe It's possible that I may've overlooked something. I hope someone proves me wrong :) Edited by JasonChoi on 17 July 2007 at 9:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6436 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 47 of 245 17 July 2007 at 9:55am | IP Logged |
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On the commercial side, it looks to me as though there are translations of English books available in Korean as audiobooks on tape or CD, based on sites such as http://www.aladdin.co.kr/rss/new_all/6653. On the p2p side, there also looks to be quite a lot. Unfortunately, neither are what I'm looking for with this thread; but hopefully sites like the above can help you.
[Edit: On looking at that URL again, I'm not so sure that it has any -translated- audiobooks, and I don't know if any of the books with titles in Korean have been translated into English]. Edited by Volte on 17 July 2007 at 10:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JasonChoi Diglot Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6356 days ago 274 posts - 298 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Latin | Message 48 of 245 17 July 2007 at 10:36am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for posting that, but those are imports. The publishers give it away (Scholastic, Harper Collins, etc).
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