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| Pip Diglot Groupie South Africa Joined 6444 days ago 48 posts - 55 votes  Speaks: English*, Afrikaans Studies: French | Message 1 of 4 16 May 2012 at 4:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good evening everybody. I'm not very active on these forums lately, but I found a really
good website that can help people to learn obscure languages (I found thins website searching for material to learn isiZulu). It is a recording of bible stories in various languages with transcripts. The stories are the same in every language, so a great resource for parallel text studying. One request that I have is that since these recordings are religiously based, I hope that you will not only use them to gain insight into language study, but also learn the message contained within them (I am a Christian, so it would do me great pride to see people not only learning languages, but also broadening their spiritual well-being). http://globalrecordings.net/en/ Good luck! Edited by Pip on 16 May 2012 at 4:20pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Vihelik Pentaglot Newbie Estonia Joined 4595 days ago 17 posts - 56 votes Speaks: Estonian*, Mandarin, English, Russian, Korean Studies: Tibetan, Spanish, French | Message 2 of 4 16 May 2012 at 7:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I second Pip's recommendation. Regardless of the heavy emphasis on religion, Global Recordings has probably more audio samples of "obscure" languages than any other website. I don't think the recordings are particularly helpful for learning any of these languages; however, a true connoisseur would probably find himself/herself lost for hours at a time in the amazing variety of sounds that make many of the lesser-learned languages so interesting.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 3 of 4 17 May 2012 at 4:47am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm probably going to Hell anyway as I'm happy to be heathen but the material is indeed handy for some languages with very low profiles. I'm off to download the stuff for Northern Saami :-D
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5451 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 4 of 4 17 May 2012 at 7:42am | IP Logged | ||
Be aware that the traditional Northern Sami translation has been criticised for being very archaic and difficult to understand, especially for young people. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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