mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5254 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 1 of 4 16 August 2010 at 10:32pm | IP Logged |
While reviewing as much old threads about Pimsleur courses (and everything about them) as possible, I bumped into a reference to a little program called Gradint that supposedly would allow one to make his own tailored/extended versions of Pimsleur-like GIR-based audio material. Has anyone actually done something with this program? I mean, in the sense of at least starting some course-building project.
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Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5811 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German
| Message 2 of 4 19 August 2010 at 5:11pm | IP Logged |
Don't download it, the voice conversion is so bad it is useless, it is a really annoying program (took me ages to uninstall it), and it's not that good anyway...stick to anki + audio!
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Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6039 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh
| Message 3 of 4 19 August 2010 at 9:18pm | IP Logged |
RR,
You don't have to use the voice synthesis -- you can record your own prompts.
I wouldn't write it off completely, if you're looking to learn a lot of phrases it's the easiest way I know of to get a set of MP3s containing randomised practice to carry about with you.
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Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5811 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German
| Message 4 of 4 19 August 2010 at 11:05pm | IP Logged |
Cainntear wrote:
You don't have to use the voice synthesis -- you can record your own prompts.
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I never tried that, I might give it another go.
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