unzum Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom soyouwanttolearnalan Joined 6914 days ago 371 posts - 478 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin
| Message 1 of 5 27 February 2008 at 11:35am | IP Logged |
Peace Corps courses
Just found this fantastic language resource today. It has the pdfs and mp3s of many different Peace Corps courses available for download, some of which I didn't even know were available as Peace Corps courses.
Here's a full list of the languages offered:
Albanian
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Bengali
Setswana (Tswana, from Botswana)
Bulgarian
More (Moore, from Burkinafaso)
Cameroon French
Mandarin Chinese
Georgian
Twi
Jordanian Arabic
Kazakhstan Russian
Kyrgyz
Macedonian
Malagasy
Bambara
Hassaniya (Mauritanian Arabic)
Moldovian Romanian
Mongolian
Moroccan Arabic
Hausa
Romanian (from Romania)
Thai
Turkmen
Ukrainian
Zarma
Edited by unzum on 09 March 2008 at 7:41pm
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LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5575 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian
| Message 2 of 5 29 April 2010 at 4:51am | IP Logged |
There are several more languages, available from them. For example I recently found
Bisaya materials for a couple of friends.
(Yes I know this an old post) I bumped it up so members would be reminded of the resource
for rare languages.
Edited by LatinoBoy84 on 29 April 2010 at 4:52am
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unzum Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom soyouwanttolearnalan Joined 6914 days ago 371 posts - 478 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin
| Message 3 of 5 29 April 2010 at 11:43am | IP Logged |
Thanks for the bump LatinoBoy84!
Here's the extra languages available:
Kyrgyz Russian
Chichewa
French from Mali
Pulaar
Soninke
Wolof
Kinyarwanda
Sepedi
isiZulu
Sranan Tongo
Siswati
Luganda
Bislama
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unzum Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom soyouwanttolearnalan Joined 6914 days ago 371 posts - 478 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin
| Message 4 of 5 05 May 2010 at 8:35am | IP Logged |
It seems like this website is no longer available, it's showing a 403 forbidden message.
It's possible that Peace Corps realised people were accessing the site directory and restricted access.
The problem is that most of these language courses are not uploaded onto the normal Peace Corps website, only Jordanian Arabic, Russian from Khazakhstan, Bambara, French from Mali, Mandarin, Thai and Ukranian are available.
I downloaded the complete Bengali course, if anyone needs that please feel free to e-mail me.
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unzum Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom soyouwanttolearnalan Joined 6914 days ago 371 posts - 478 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin
| Message 5 of 5 30 May 2010 at 2:06pm | IP Logged |
Here's the Internet Archive link for the Peace Corps website.
A lot of the courses are still actually downloadable, even if you can't view the directory. Check out the links for the zip files on the Internet Archive website, then copy and paste that link into a new tab/page, making sure to delete the archive bit at the beginning of the website address. And you should then be able to download the zip file.
The Internet Archive page doesn't have all the new languages, but if you search google to find out what country name each language is filed under, you should be able to download a zip file called country.zip
Here are the country names for languages you can't find on the archived page, to download it just find another zip address from the archive page, then replace the country name.
Chichewa - malawi
Kinyarwanda - rwanda
Sepedi - southafrica
isiZulu - southafrica
Sranan Tongo - suriname
siSwati - swaziland
Luganda - uganda
Bislama - can be download here
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