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| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6338 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 1 of 101 23 August 2011 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd like to make a page with lots of free bilingual texts to download, using public
domain texts. These can be used with the L-R method, or as you wish. I've got a number of scripts to help me produce sentence-by-sentence alignments, so it doesn't take me all that long. I will try to make time to do a couple a week. What I'd like is for people to help me choose suitable texts for learners, and choose the best translations. I'm no literature expert. To get the ball rolling, I found this post regarding French authors: ----- My favorite french authors are authors of the 19th century: Balzac, Flaubert, Maupassant, Stendhal, Zola... I warmly recommend you Guy de Maupassant, as he wrote numerous short stories that should be quite easy to read. I've just taken a look at the amazon.fr site, and these authors are available in audio books. Jules Verne is really fun to read if you like adventures, wreck stories... I loved his books when I was a child. Must read: 20000 lieux sous les mers, De la terre ? la lune, Le tour du monde en 80 jours, L'?le myst?rieuse... Many of his books are available in audio books (with abridged versions for children). Before 19th century: Tales by Charles Perrault, La Fontaine, philosophical tales by Voltaire (Candide, Zadig...) are available in audio books and a pleasure to read. 20th century: L'?tranger by Camus is easy to read, you can try also La peste. Proust is available in audio books but not easy to read and a bit boring (long phrases and thick books...). I can't help you for post 1950 litterature as I don't really like it (self-obsessed authors, boring books...). The best known author nowadays is Michel Houellebecq, easy to read (short phrases, simple vocabulary) but not my cup of tea. A link with free audio books in french: http://www.incipitblog.com/index.php/sommaire The equivalent to http://www.vorleser.net/ (German audio books) in french: http://www.livresaudio.net/ (only a few poems for the time being). Free audio books in portuguese: http://www.bibvirt.futuro.usp.br/sons/livro_falado/titulo.ht ml Edited by lo?c on February 10 2006 at 4:35am ----- And here's the first text I've done, of Germinal, by Zola: http://www.omilialanguages.com/hosted_files/germinal.pdf Edited by DavidW on 23 August 2011 at 10:33pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6761 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 2 of 101 24 August 2011 at 7:05am | IP Logged | ||
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I would be forever grateful if you made something for Persian! There are enough good
learning materials out there for French learners already ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6251 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 3 of 101 24 August 2011 at 12:30pm | IP Logged | ||
Incredibly strongly seconded. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6471 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 4 of 101 24 August 2011 at 1:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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So, maybe.. Could you perhaps share your secret on how you do them :P?
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| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6338 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 5 of 101 24 August 2011 at 4:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, I would love to do some Persian books. There is a difficulty: Getting the texts in
digital form can be a little difficult (OCR doesn't work very well for Farsi), and many books you find online are scanned images, not editable text. So we might need to pay to have a book typed. On the other hand, there are no copyright agreements with Iran and the rest of the world, so we can use pretty much any book without needing to obtain permission, as I understand. From an earlier post: Here's a number of sites with audiobooks in Farsi. There are apparently a lot of audiobooks in Farsi, despite not being that easy to find in bookshops (at least outside of Tehran). It should be legal for anyone outside of Iran to download them, due to their funky copyright laws. http://audiobook.blogfa.com/ http://farsibooks.ir/2009/10/14/persian-audio-books-for-sale .html http://tanzneviseghadimi.com/?cat=109 http://www.farsilearning.com/audiobook-farsi/ http://www.irtanin.com/ http://www.iranianbookstore.com/en/online-shop?page=shop.bro wse&category_id=6 http://www.irpdf.com/sub-categories-27.html Unfortunately, due to government imposed limits on internet speed in Iran (128kps, I think), the MP3s are encoded with very low bit-rates. There's also a copy of 'The Alchemist' available on CD via Amazon in Farsi: Publisher: Caravan Books Publishing House; 1 edition (2008) Language: Farsi ISBN-13: 978-9641750864 I can also organize readings, if you would like other books. I can also look into getting permissions for translations, but this will mean that I'd have to charge something for the bilingual book. So, it's just a question of choosing a number of suitable books. Edited by DavidW on 24 August 2011 at 4:17pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6338 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 6 of 101 24 August 2011 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Sweedish library for the blind has 88 'Talking Books' listed in Farsi. I believe many
were recorded by the library itself: http://katalog.tpb.se Normally 'Talking Books' are strictly for distribution to people with certain disabilities, who can't read regular books. Due to special laws, they can be produced without obtaining permission from the copyright holder. Perhaps, given the special copyright situation with Iran, the library could be convinced to make the materials more widely available. They could be sold to customers outside Iran, so as not to damage the Iranian market for similar materials. I've spoken with them on the phone before, they are very nice people. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6471 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 7 of 101 24 August 2011 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would personally like to make Latin-English dual readers — though there are many of those from the 19th century
on GoogleBooks and Archive.org they’re all badly OCRed scans that are HUGE PDF-files that lag when you scroll the pages… 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6282 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 8 of 101 24 August 2011 at 5:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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This should help:
LR materials Parallel texts It's a wiki - do contribute! Let's help each other! 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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