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| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5326 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes  Speaks: German*, English | Message 81 of 101 07 October 2011 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm almost done with the first revision of the Count of Monte Christo, can you set up a contributor account for me or PM me the access information so that I can upload the files when I'm done?
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| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6532 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 82 of 101 07 October 2011 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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I changed the permissions so that new accounts don't have to be manually activated. Also,
any registered user can upload files now, and edit the Wiki. So just click 'Register' in the top right-hand corner of the page. You could use your how-to-learn-any-language.com username on the site, if you want. Edited by DavidW on 07 October 2011 at 6:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4803 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 83 of 101 07 October 2011 at 8:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey Everyone,
I've been lurking on the forum here for quite some time, and I love it. So I decided to join and post. I'm still new to all of this, but I'm really intrigued by L-R and am trying to use it for my studies. I'm currently studying a number of languages, but focusing on Japanese at the moment. I love "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," and did find an earlier thread here on the forum with links to transcripts in Japanese and parallel texts, but the audio link isn't working for me. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this, or if there's an alternative place I could get the Japanese audio? Any help would be greatly appreciated. The atmosphere here on the forum is positively infectious! It gives me the drive and motivation to keep going. Language learning is a passion, and should be fun. Thank you all for making this easy for me! Good luck on all your studies! Edited by Woodsei on 07 October 2011 at 8:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4834 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 84 of 101 07 October 2011 at 10:07pm | IP Logged | ||
Sorry, can't help with your question, but welcome to the forum. I'm sure someone will be able to help. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6532 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 85 of 101 08 October 2011 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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The OCRed versions of 'Der Untergang Des Abendlandes' on archive.org were lousy. I've
re-OCRed the scans of the German version on archive.org, removing the page numbers, headers, footnotes and diagrams (to give alignment a chance). The unchecked texts have been uploaded to omilia.org as RTF files, with uncertain characters from the OCR highlighted in blue. The best thing would probably for a German speaker to go through it, checking the characters in blue, and correctly any other obvious mistakes. Don't worry about the table of contents, this could be removed. Also, you can leave the markers for the footnotes, that look like this: 1) 2) etc. The footnotes could be re-inserted after alignment during the final formatting, but it will be quite time-consuming. The diagrams and 'sideways pages' can be inserted as they are, as pictures during the final formatting. Finding a volunteer on librivox to read the book shouldn't be too hard, now that there is a good version of the text. Will try to do the English books soon. Edited by DavidW on 08 October 2011 at 9:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6532 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 86 of 101 08 October 2011 at 9:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have uploaded the English-Japanese texts from the old Bilingual-texts.com site,
except for 'The Little Prince,' whose English translation is still under copyright. I will produce a version with my own English translation, which is a bit more modern and follows the original French more closely. I don't know were these texts came from, if anyone hsa any objections, please let me know and I will take them down. For Karel Čapek, English translations are available here: http://www.finitesite.com/dandelion/webtrans.html http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/ If someone wants to suggest which works would be the best for making bilingual materials, I will produce the alignments. Also take a look here for other Czech materials: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/cs Edited by DavidW on 08 October 2011 at 9:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5871 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 87 of 101 08 October 2011 at 9:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've started going through the Count of Monte-Cristo, trying to adjust the English translation as best I can and splitting large sentences to be able to follow more easily. A lot of it, at least in the beginning, is full of sea jargon -- "half-mast the colors and square the yards!" -- which are completely foreign to me and to most, I would imagine. It's slow going, fun, but will take me a while to finish everything. I'll probably post chapter by chapter what I've done, in case someone else wants to pick up where I leave off or work their way from the end.
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| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6532 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 88 of 101 09 October 2011 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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If the translation is really not very good, don't wear yourself out it, there are other
books with better translations that can be worked on. But I'm there will be people who will appreciate your effort. Does anyone want to research Grimm's Fairy Tales, and report back :-)? Which stories, how is the German, which English translation to use, where are audiobooks available etc. Edited by DavidW on 09 October 2011 at 4:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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