aru-aru Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6457 days ago 244 posts - 331 votes Speaks: Latvian*, English, Russian
| Message 9 of 245 28 June 2007 at 2:38pm | IP Logged |
A radio station in China has audio for a few Chinese novels on their website. http://www.radio.cn/yhtcpps/ There seem to be around 30 books there
This includes Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦) http://211.89.225.81/radioview/searchlist.jsp?keyd=%BA%EC%C2 %A5%C3%CE&x=29&y=11
Chinese:
http://24.6.223.65/download/literature/YMQH/HongLouMeng/red. html
English:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9603
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kinoko Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6636 days ago 103 posts - 109 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Japanese, Spanish Studies: German
| Message 10 of 245 28 June 2007 at 9:56pm | IP Logged |
A technical problem. Do you manage to download the Japanese ones? I tried but was not able. The file extension is unknown. Do I need a special software to read those files? Or shall I convert them somehow?
Someone who was able to listen to those files, please help!
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sheetz Senior Member United States Joined 6377 days ago 270 posts - 356 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Mandarin
| Message 11 of 245 28 June 2007 at 10:03pm | IP Logged |
kinoko wrote:
A technical problem. Do you manage to download the Japanese ones? I tried but was not able. The file extension is unknown. Do I need a special software to read those files? Or shall I convert them somehow?
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I can listen to all of them using RealPlayer.
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24karrot Diglot Groupie United States speakingboricua.blog Joined 6384 days ago 72 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian
| Message 12 of 245 28 June 2007 at 10:27pm | IP Logged |
This site offers some Persian material averaging 20 minutes long or so for adults and also has (more) stories for children. Best part though is that it's from my school! :)
I'm sure there are better sites out there for audiobooks in Persian but I'll have to ask around later.
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kinoko Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6636 days ago 103 posts - 109 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Japanese, Spanish Studies: German
| Message 13 of 245 28 June 2007 at 10:33pm | IP Logged |
Thanks. I can download them too now. Apparently my search engine had blocked all the downloads.
It's a vast selection. I'd like to know from students of Japanese out there which they have chosen to study and why. What are you preferences?
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FSI Senior Member United States Joined 6359 days ago 550 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 14 of 245 05 July 2007 at 11:09pm | IP Logged |
This site appears to contain dozens of Portuguese audiobooks + accompanying texts.
If anyone finds a French version of Alice in Wonderland, please let me know. I loved the Spanish version linked to on the first page.
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siomotteikiru Senior Member Zaire Joined 6361 days ago 102 posts - 242 votes
| Message 15 of 245 08 July 2007 at 11:08am | IP Logged |
He, he.
I like the idea.
To download ra files (ram is a text file containing the url of the audio file) and SAVE them to you PC you might want to use STREAMBOX VCR, a very handy proggy. SREAMBOX RIPPER can change the ra audio to wav or mp3.
I have parallel texts of Alice in Wonderland in English-French-Russian-Polish-Spanish-Italian-German.
I made them years ago when I was working on a method of learning a few languages at a time. I do not remember if I proofread them all properly.
Alice is one of my favourite books (a must for every mathematician, by the way), I once translated it literally into Polish and made grammatical codes, an excellent tool for complete beginners learning English, but you'd have to be a fluent speaker of Polish to appreciate it fully.
Rai books in Italian are abridged, with annoying music, but it is better than nothing.
Some time ago I made a parallel text of Il gattopardo by Lampedusa in Italian-Polish and marked all the recorded passages.
I have parallel texts of the book in English-Polish, too.
You can get plenty of unabridged audiobooks in Russian at ozon.ru, they are very cheap.
Edited by siomotteikiru on 08 July 2007 at 11:17am
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The Law Newbie United States Joined 6375 days ago 31 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 16 of 245 08 July 2007 at 11:24am | IP Logged |
Any Alexandre Dumas books in French audio?
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