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Beyond Pimsleur with Gradint

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mrwarper
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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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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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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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Cainntear wrote:


You don't have to use the voice synthesis -- you can record your own prompts.


I never tried that, I might give it another go.


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