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| Rikyu-san Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5527 days ago 213 posts - 413 votes  Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, French | Message 1 of 20 21 January 2010 at 2:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just received a newsletter from LearnOutLoud where they offer 10 Pimsleur lessons for free. The newsletter text reads:
Audible.com and Simon & Schuster Audio are currently offering ten free language learning lessons of the Pimsleur Haitian Creole Compact Course. Haitian Creole is spoken by about eight million people in Haiti, which is nearly the entire population. If you or anyone you know is considering going to Haiti to help with the relief effort there, then download & listen to or share these free language learning lessons. These introductory lessons teach beginning language strategies for essential communication and traveling needs. These ten lessons can be downloaded in two parts from Audible.com as Lessons 1-5 and Lessons 6-10. Click the two Audible.com links on our page to access them (if the links don't take you to the right place just search "Haitian Creole" on Audible.com). Link to the download page - click on the two Audible buttons in the "Get this free title" column. Free Lessons Edit: You have to have or have to create an Audible account to download the 10 units, and you have to add them to your cart, proceed to checkout and complete the "purchase" once for unit 1-5 and once for unit 6-10. You are able to "buy" them, proceed to checkout, and download them by starting from this page. My comment: We need to celebrate and use our strengths and this is one way to do it. If this allows you to serve other people, I think this newsletter has fulfilled its purpose. Edited by Rikyu-san on 21 January 2010 at 5:36pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6010 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 20 21 January 2010 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Personally, I think it's disgusting that they would use such an opportunistic and shallow marketing tactic to advertise their products.
Realistically, they could very easily have contacted the relief agencies directly and given them access to it, but that wouldn't have turned into free advertising. By giving it to everyone, they get people to spread it over the internet for free, massively improving the public perception and awareness of both Pimsleur and Audible.com . They're using other people's misfortune -- other people's deaths -- as a means to make money, which is cynical, sick and wrong. I am truly appalled. (Edit: punctuation) Edited by Cainntear on 21 January 2010 at 6:09pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6228 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 20 21 January 2010 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | ||
I second that!!! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Astrophel Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5731 days ago 157 posts - 345 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Cantonese, Polish, Sanskrit, Cherokee | Message 4 of 20 23 January 2010 at 8:14am | IP Logged | ||
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People died, and that's terrible, but what is really the best response? Sit and mope about Haiti for a bit, then forget it ever happened as we go back to our daily lives? That's what the vast majority will do. Don't kid yourself. How involved are you with the crisis in Sudan? The earthquake in Pakistan? The tsunami in Indonesia? Probably not that much unless you have have some kind of connection with the area.
Instead of going, "Oh poor Haiti" and then putting it out of mind, people who download these lessons will learn a little bit of the language, form at least a small connection with Haiti and its people, and keep the disaster in mind. Even if they never go further than those few lessons, any mention of Haiti or its creole in the future will remind them that they know a bit of the language, and that they learned in the wake of the disaster. The most important step in getting aid from the public for any cause is raising awareness, and something like these free lessons will keep awareness high for the long haul. Sure, they get free advertising, but so what? This isn't tastefully selfish because it has a clear purpose beyond commercialism. I think it's pretty genius actually. 21 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Roq71 Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6593 days ago 63 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Haitian Creole | Message 5 of 20 24 January 2010 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think its great. Everyone can give something to help. I think that their contribution will be helpful for those
wishing to travel to Haiti as part of the relief efforts. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Roq71 Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6593 days ago 63 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Haitian Creole | Message 6 of 20 24 January 2010 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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My only complaint is that I already paid for it!!!
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5480 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 7 of 20 24 January 2010 at 5:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I actually don't think that this should be put into such a bad light. Most Haitians probably don't speak English, and this would be a good idea for volunteers (I know my school is putting together a group that's going down there to help with relief real soon). If any base in a language is good, then I think they are doing quite a service to volunteers. I think that if they are using this to obtain free advertising, then they are sick people who probably planned this, but you don't know if it is a genuine effort or a sick marketing scheme.
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6010 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 8 of 20 24 January 2010 at 6:23pm | IP Logged | ||
I'll say it again: if this was intended for the volunteers, it should have been sent to the aid agencies, not the internet. Volunteers should all be going through one of the major agencies anyway. Also, the Audible format is a very poor option for volunteers anyway, as most people's MP3 players don't support it, so you can't listen to it on the flight. Because it's DRMed, it's also hard impossible for the aid agencies to distribute it directly -- volunteers will need to download it directly, and I don't think they've got great connectivity out there. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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