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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 9 of 23 29 October 2012 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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If that's the case, then I'm afraid that it could be limited to the big names since there are rather few native speakers of lower-profile languages on HTLAL who are as active as the ones who are natives of the big names. On the other hand, there must be a fair amount of audio (or even TV shows) in the TL with transcriptions in the same language when the TL is one of the big names. Is there that much extra demand for transcribed audio in big-name languages? I'm not trying to be facetious or a jerk, but I do wonder a bit.
I'd be very pleasantly surprised though if a native speaker of any of my target languages would contribute a recording here (any Saamic language, yes please), even though I can get pretty much what you're thinking about by using audio (e.g. Gulahalan) or videos (e.g. Supisuomea) in the target language that are transcribed/subtitled in the same language. There's also a fair bit in transcribed video clips here and here. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 5128 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 10 of 23 29 October 2012 at 6:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've got a free website offering native speaker audio (unscripted, natural language, at normal speed) plus
transcripts for Thai: thairecordings.com. There's close to 10 hours of material online, on a variety of subjects. From what I can see looking at the stats and the feedback I get, there is some demand, but it's limited to a fairly small set of motivated learners. It would be great to get a community project going providing something similar for other languages (or even Thai :)), but I agree with one of the other comments that such an undertaking would be most useful for languages for which there are few resources available. I would also like to second a point made by the OP, namely that unscripted spoken language is quite different from recording a written text. Personally, I'm less interested in audio versions of written language - I'm just fine with the written text then -, but much more in getting spoken language in either a context rich format or with transcripts. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 11 of 23 29 October 2012 at 7:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It's inevitable that there'd be more recordings in "bigger" languages, as it's inevitably harder to find speakers of smaller languages. But there doesn't have to be that many either for the site to be useful. Each would ultimately be responsible for getting native speakers to commit to making a recording, but if everyone does that, then we could end up creating a pretty interesting bank of recordings. Another aspect is that larger languages tend to have more variety, so a person could ultimately find an interesting number of recordings from Melbourne English or Lyon French, for instance.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 12 of 23 29 October 2012 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
There are lots of material available online in many languages, but for our purposes as language learners, I thought we could use short, clear-sounding, natural and unscripted language with transcriptions. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 13 of 23 29 October 2012 at 8:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hmmm, this could make it overlap with a few dialectological projects or audio archives of interviews or short monologues involving native speakers (accompanied by transcripts).
E.g. English Finnish German Polish Spanish Swedish Edited by Chung on 29 October 2012 at 10:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 14 of 23 29 October 2012 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
There's also this site but unfortunately there are no transcripts. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 15 of 23 29 October 2012 at 8:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hehe. I hope that you find it as much of a time-waster as I have :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5428 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 16 of 23 29 October 2012 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think this is a good idea although for some languages there is already a fair amount of transcribed audio available. For example, in French ielanguages.com, France Bienvenue and Fluent French Now do an excellent job.
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