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| BobMc Senior Member United States Joined 5428 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 7 08 July 2010 at 3:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Based on a recommendation on this forum, I picked up older copies of "Spanish Made Simple" and "German Made Simple". Does anyone know if there is any audio out there that corresponds to these texts? In my 1981 copy of Spanish Made Simple, there is a description in there on how to order cassettes so audio must exist. Or possibly someone has recorded their own audio. Please let me know if you have come across this audio, as I would greatly appreciate it.
If not, my wife who is a native speaker has agreed to make me mp3 files a chapter at a time for the Spanish Made Simple book. Of course she wouldn't be upset if I found existing audio so she didn't need to do that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5345 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 2 of 7 08 July 2010 at 8:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know cassettes existed for French Made Simple and Spanish Made Simple as I used to own them in the 1980s. Unfortunately, they are now lost. They may occasionally appear on Amazon, though (which has a catalogue entry for them). The best bet is to search local libraries.
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| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5345 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 3 of 7 09 July 2010 at 11:45am | IP Logged | ||
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I just checked - my local library has the Spanish Made Simple tapes in its catalogue - the German and the French ones have been stolen, however :{
I will investigate further next week when I can make it to the library. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5365 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 4 of 7 09 July 2010 at 9:41pm | IP Logged | ||
They make tape to mp3 converter things so you can put them on your PC, I just saw one in a magazine...I guess they're gaining popularity :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BobMc Senior Member United States Joined 5428 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 7 09 July 2010 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for the tip Elexi. I am going to check my library tomorrow. It seems like the older "Made Simple" books were more popular in the UK like Linguaphone, but hopefully I'll get lucky finding a copy.
Here is a link showing a way using Audacity and a $5 cord from Radio Shack... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BobMc Senior Member United States Joined 5428 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 7 13 July 2010 at 12:53am | IP Logged | ||
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No luck finding the audio yet, so I am going to ask my wife to make it. That said, I am going to go through "Madrigal's Magic Key To Spanish" first one chapter at a time, so if anyone is particularly interested in having some audio to accompany portions of that book, just shoot me a PM.
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| peterbeischmidt Newbie Germany Joined 3723 days ago 3 posts - 6 votes | Message 7 of 7 21 November 2015 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I hope no one will resent that I resuscitate this old thread.
I recently came across Alexander Arguelles' video review of the "Made Simple" series and the positive discussion has spiked my interest. I was therefore wondering whether anyone has been able to locate the cassette tapes? I noticed that Random House has some volumes of the series in print again. For example, here's the page for Spanish Made Simple: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/120690/spanish-made- simple-by-judith-nemethy/9780767915410/ It seems that, while the contents have been mostly left unchanged, they're selling them entirely without audio recordings. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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