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marklewis1234
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31 January 2011 at 8:24pm | IP Logged 
Has anyone used the Spanish/English versions of these? If so, I would be very interested in your opinions. Are they aimed at quite an advanced level of student?
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DaraghM
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01 February 2011 at 10:39am | IP Logged 
I've used them, and I would place them at high intermediate. The language itself is quite advanced, as it's proper Spanish literature. You could use them at any level, but I would advise against early beginners using these resources. I've also used the French parallel series, and it didn't seem as challenging.
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atza
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23 March 2013 at 9:08am | IP Logged 
It is easy to make parallel texts of your own choosing all you need is a good text aligner

I used nova text aligner to make this
site:
http://www.twinreads.com

http://www.supernova-soft.com/c5/index.php/products/text_ali gner/
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23 March 2013 at 11:32am | IP Logged 
The stories vary in difficulty: some were really easy to understand at quite an early
stage, others I still find quite challenging. As you might imagine, most are somewhere in
between. The most important thing is that they're really good stories (unlike some other
bilingual texts), so persevering is no problem. Good product. The whole series is good.

Edited by Random review on 23 March 2013 at 11:39am

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andras_farkas
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23 March 2013 at 3:30pm | IP Logged 
atza wrote:
It is easy to make parallel texts of your own choosing all you need is a
good text aligner

I used nova text aligner to make this
site:
http://www.twinreads.com

http://www.supernova-soft.com/c5/index.php/products/text_ali gner/


If you are interested in making parallel texts of significant size, try a decent autoaligner. Manually pairing up sentences (รก la Nova aligner) was all we had in the
1980s, but now we can do better than that.
Here's an autoaligner I wrote: sourceforge.net/projects/aligner

P.s. can I grab and republish your books my collection? See details here.
I'd only take the ones whose author died more than 50 years ago for copyright reasons.


Edited by andras_farkas on 23 March 2013 at 3:48pm



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