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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 1 of 3 17 November 2012 at 9:54pm | IP Logged |
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I was searching mp3's on Amazon.co.uk, and came across a several downloads by Armand
and Louise Bégué, called Speak and Read French. I would have simply passed them by, but I noticed that there are also two downloads with Armand and Louise Bégué and Pierre Capritz, called French Short Stories (vol 1 and 2). Does anyone know anything about these courses? Do they have textbooks? Is it possible to buy books of the Short stories collections? They are quite old, and the audio on the samples shows its age. But I can live with that for a decent course. EDIT: a bit of further searching has revealed a bit more information. The recordings are being released by Smithsonian/Folkways, and their website has PDF's to download for each recording. Some of them are just the album cover and back, others contain a booklet. There is also an album of Bible readings, and an album of Songs for learning French. Edited by Jeffers on 17 November 2012 at 10:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5208 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 3 18 November 2012 at 5:36pm | IP Logged |
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I can't give you any more info. on the books, but wondered if the "Pierre Capritz" listed might perhaps have
been Pierre Capretz of French in Action fame. Zooming into the Amazon photo, the cover does indeed say "Capritz", so there's either a typo on the book cover itself, or there are/were two French profs at Yale with very similar names. The latter's not an impossible scenario (I would then imagine them constantly having to redirect mail intended for the "other" Pierre C), but I'd bet on the first scenario (and very poor proofreading) being the case. Does the Smithsonian PDF have any biographical details for Mr. C? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5564 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 3 of 3 18 November 2012 at 6:29pm | IP Logged |
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I have the Smithsonian/Folkways CDs - they are OK, but not up to other 60s offerings
like Assimil or Linguaphone - also the sound quality is pretty poor. As far as I know no textbooks - just the booklet that comes with the CD. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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