unzum Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom soyouwanttolearnalan Joined 6849 days ago 371 posts - 478 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin
| Message 17 of 22 02 March 2009 at 10:27pm | IP Logged |
There's been another update at the GLOSS site!
They've added French & Japanese (yay!) but it looks like for some reason they've taken off Tagalog (?).
But it seems like Weekly Training Events has activities for Tagalog, as well as for Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Hindi, Korean, Kurmanji, Pashto, Persian, Russian & Sorani.
Edited by unzum on 02 March 2009 at 10:31pm
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lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6825 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian
| Message 18 of 22 04 March 2009 at 7:30pm | IP Logged |
Hmm...only one lesson for Japanese. Still, it's a start and I hope they continue to add more lessons in the near future. :)
Edited by lady_skywalker on 04 March 2009 at 7:31pm
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kaikai Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5690 days ago 27 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German
| Message 19 of 22 03 April 2009 at 5:45pm | IP Logged |
http://gloss.lingnet.org/
What a wonderful resource!! I love the dialogues. For Mandarin, I have used this site in conjunction with my Dim Sum to generate word lists and convert the text to Pinyin for reference sake.
Definitely, two thumbs up!
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kaikai Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5690 days ago 27 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German
| Message 20 of 22 24 April 2009 at 1:35am | IP Logged |
I requested CDs from the Gloss website for Mandarin. After a couple weeks, I received them today in my mailbox.
I received two CDs. The content on the CDs is exactly as the website for my chosen language. The first CD is the reading CD. The second, listening.
I was previously downloading the mp3's off the website and putting them onto my mp3 player for review. However, the task was a little cumbersome and I am a little lazy thus the request. Anyways, I'm excited to have received them and wanted to share this with you.
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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5782 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| Message 21 of 22 27 April 2009 at 3:36pm | IP Logged |
Yes, indeed, for my Spanish, French and Turkish the language transcripts on the GLOSS site are very useful. The French and Spanish ones contain the audios, so I can listen and read the transcript. For Turkish - unfortunately - there are only the transcripts available at the moment, not the audios. But any way, I am still on a beginner level in Turkish, and GLOSS starts at a - as I would say - B1/B2 level.
Fasulye-Babylonia
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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5782 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| Message 22 of 22 03 May 2009 at 6:55pm | IP Logged |
LISTENING EXCERCISE EN FRANÇAIS
Today I used the French recordings on the GLOSS site for listening excercises. The way I do it is that I read the FRENCH text while listening to the FRENCH audio. On this level there are only very few unknown words for me. The second step for me would be to look up unknown French words in my Langenscheidt French-English dictionary or to look them up in the English translation of the French text. I must figure out what works better. The topics are useful, because I will use the Frnech language professionally. I am always very glad to find audios with transcripts.
How do other people make use of the GLOSS site?
Fasulye-Babylonia
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