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| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6524 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 1 of 7 18 December 2010 at 7:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Some time ago, MarcoDiAngelo set up the Parallel texts project. The original forum
thread is: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=19917&PN=1 and the project site is http://www.bilingual-texts.com/ These are really fantastic materials, I've been studying with them for some time. I have a small book publishing business, and with some work, I could adapt the materials on this site into printed books. I think people will appreciate having printed copies, and more people will be able to discover and use these materials if they are available on Amazon. To do this work, I'd like to get permission from the original creators of the bilingual text files. Unfortunately I don't know who they are. I know siomotteikiru made a lot of them. Please get in touch so we can make an arrangement. You can send a PM. I tried to get in touch with MarcoDiAngelo but I think he hasn't posted in a while here. Regards David Edited by DavidW on 19 December 2010 at 12:25am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6468 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 2 of 7 19 December 2010 at 12:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Afaik MarcoDiAngelo published siomotteikiru's work without permission, he got very upset
about it and stopped sharing his wealth of home-created materials. A few months later, siomotteikiru quit the internet. I doubt you will get your permission, from him at least. Other forum members have been creating parallel texts, but mostly of things that are still in-copyright, e. g. Harry Potter. Edited by Sprachprofi on 19 December 2010 at 12:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6524 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 3 of 7 19 December 2010 at 1:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for that. I've been digging up old posts to try and see what happened. If anyone
has any more information or knows how to contact siomotteikiru please let me know. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5667 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 5 of 7 20 December 2010 at 3:36pm | IP Logged | ||
MarcoDiAngelo certainly did not make them himself. At least two of the texts can from me. I passed them on to siomotteikiru, who then (apparently) passed them on to MarcoDiAngelo. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6257 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 6 of 7 22 December 2010 at 12:28pm | IP Logged | ||
I can contact siomotteikiru, if you want. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6524 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 7 of 7 28 December 2010 at 1:56am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been looking more carefully at the files and doing some thinking. The existing
materials would still need quite a lot of work to bring them all into a uniform, consistent format. I have done some experimentation, and I've found a format (using sentence-level alignment) that gives good readability and appearance. I've also figured out a workflow. AN OFFER: If anyone is interested in working with me to align texts, please leave a message below or send a PM. This offer is not only to the original creators of the texts on MarcoDiAngelo's site. I will provide the required format of the texts, and provide instructions on how to carry out the work. Once the alignment and checking is done, I will handle all other aspects of the project (interior design of the book, cover design, setup with the printer, etc.) We can work on the basis that the contributor receives a royalty on each book sold, or this royalty could be paid to a charity if numerous people end up working on a single text. We can work out the details together. Look forward to hearing from you. Edited by DavidW on 28 December 2010 at 1:57am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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