marklewis1234 Newbie United States Joined 5073 days ago 32 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 1 of 5 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?
Thanks
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DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5910 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian
| Message 2 of 5 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 Newbie Yugoslavia Joined 4025 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes
| Message 3 of 5 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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Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5542 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German
| Message 4 of 5 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 Tetraglot Groupie Hungary Joined 4659 days ago 56 posts - 165 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, Spanish, English, Italian
| Message 5 of 5 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/ |
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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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