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| Rsquest Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4195 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese Studies: Japanese, Spanish, Esperanto, French | Message 1 of 7 10 February 2015 at 7:58pm | IP Logged |
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I am sorry for this question. I am sure the answer is out there, but I can't find it.
Can someone help me to find Listen-and-Read materials? I have tried to find The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in my target languages -- with matching Book and Audiobook, but I have not been successful. Amazon doesn't have them available here in the US. I have Harry Potter, but this is not my preferred material -- of course, I will go with it if I can't find anything else that I like better. I am looking for Portuguese, Spanish, and French. I would love to find Japanese, too, if I could find something in Romaji ... or at least kana-only. Thanks. Ray 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5261 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 2 of 7 10 February 2015 at 8:14pm | IP Logged |
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There are other sources besides amazon available but you have to google search using the language itself and the words in Portuguese "audiolivro" and Spanish "audiolibro". Be aware that "you can't always get what you want..." as Sir Mick Jagger sang- "...but if you try sometimes you just might find- you get what you need". In Portuguese the book's title is Os Sete Hábitos das Pessoas Altamente Eficazes and in Spanish Los siete hábitos de la gente altamente efectiva. Wikipedia says it's this in Japanese: 7つの習慣 and Les Sept Habitudes des gens efficaces in French. Add the terms for audio book in French and Japanese and try searching.
Free and legal, public domain audio books are available from Librivox.org. There is a series of "radionovelas" in Portuguese (also English, French, Swahili, Amharic) available from Deutsche Welle Aprender de ouvido on a wide variety of topics. Each is about an hour and a half long broken down into 10-12 minute segments with free pdf transcripts and downloadable mp3's. The English can be found on the English site for DW. Scroll down towards the page bottom for all the various ones available and the link to DW English. Edited by iguanamon on 11 February 2015 at 10:31pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Rsquest Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4195 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese Studies: Japanese, Spanish, Esperanto, French | Message 3 of 7 10 February 2015 at 8:45pm | IP Logged |
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That was really helpful!
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6581 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 4 of 7 11 February 2015 at 7:44am | IP Logged |
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Also check out http://www.farkastranslations.com/bilingual_books.php for a lot of parallel text version of classic books, many of which can be found as audiobooks on sites like Librivox. For French, there are lots and lots of free audiobooks on litteratureaudio.com.
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| nowneverends Newbie United States Joined 5434 days ago 26 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 7 11 February 2015 at 7:11pm | IP Logged |
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Free texts and audio are available for The Little Prince in many languages. I'm
sure that Spanish and French are available and easy to find, as I've used them. Other books I would suggest searching for are The Stranger, The Hobbit, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Brothers Karamazov. It is often helpful to determine what the title is in the language you want and search in that way. So look for "les frères karamazov audio" rather than "the brothers karamazov french audio." I believe that all of the books I listed are in the public domain in English. I can vouch for the availability of these works in many other languages (both in audio and text form), but I don't know anything about the legality. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5765 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 6 of 7 11 February 2015 at 10:32pm | IP Logged |
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For all I know there are very few professionally recorded audio books available in Japanese. (More dramatizations of light novel and manga series.)
There might be audio libraries for the blind, but I don't know how you'd gain access to those. For reading material there's always Aozora Bunko which does have ruby characters for many classics. (There are also volunteers like kaseumin who record books. koohi is also a source for links to more.) Edited by Bao on 11 February 2015 at 10:33pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| redflag Senior Member Australia Joined 3841 days ago 123 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Danish, Indonesian, French | Message 7 of 7 11 February 2015 at 11:22pm | IP Logged |
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Audible actually has quite a few audiobooks in French and other languages. Book-books
being easier to find than audiobooks you might have to finda decent audio copy of something and find the matching books rather than other way round 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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