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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5260 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 1 of 2 28 August 2013 at 1:27pm | IP Logged |
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If you're looking for free and legal audio "books" in Dutch, French, English, and even five audios in Afrikaans, try Radiobooks and click on the language tabs. The "books" are contemporary short stories from Dutch and Flemish-speaking authors in Holland and Belgium. The audios are about a half an hour long and most are available in English translation. The project is a partnership between the Dutch and Belgian governments and Radio Nederlands. The home page say that they are working on Indonesian and Papiamento translations too.
Here's the downside, I can't find any of the texts. What a shame they're not made available on the site. Still there's a lot of audio available. I counted about 95 in Spanish- at half an hour apiece that's almost 48 hours of Spanish audio stories for download. The French page has a section called Radiolivres pour enfants with 17 audios available in French and Dutch, again no texts, with the same thing available at the Dutch page. Radioboeken voor kinderen Many learners want to improve their listening. Listening without a text is challenging, but doing so has helped me tremendously with learning Portuguese. I work with a tutor who has the same audio/video I'm using and we go over it together. I write a synopsis and tell the story and receive correction and advice. For those without such a tutor available, one can listen to the English translation to understand the story and then the TL. Of course, this will work best if you are at an intermediate or advanced level. You could still write a synopsis and post it for correction, Still, I'd love to get my hands on those transcripts! Edit: A further search for the transcripts has led me to The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature which has sample pdfs, some quite large, of translations to English for free downloads including children's books. Still no original texts available. Could be a good resource for Dutch learners. Edited by iguanamon on 28 August 2013 at 1:53pm 14 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Tsopivo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4469 days ago 258 posts - 411 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 2 of 2 08 September 2013 at 10:11am | IP Logged |
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That is an awesome link. Thank you!
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