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| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4523 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 17 of 22 25 June 2013 at 4:06am | IP Logged | |||||
Can you explain how the apply chain feature works and how I do it? Also, where on earth did you acquire a Russian Madrigal course? 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| dtvrij74_ Diglot Groupie United States danielhonline.cRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3992 days ago 51 posts - 62 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: French, German, Russian, Norwegian | Message 18 of 22 25 June 2013 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
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For German:
Mission Berlin: An A1 level crime thriller (kind of) about a girl who has to save Europe from disaster. The plot line is actually fairly interesting and engaging (a nice change from the shopping- in-a-clothing-store-type scripts), the vocabulary is slightly challenging sometimes. Also available in Polish and French. The other German courses on DW also look interesting, though I haven't checked them out yet. The podcasts are on iTunes, the script is on the website. Edit: I'm not a spammer, I promise! Here's the link: http://www.dw.de/deutsch- lernen/mission-europe/s-9731 Edited by dtvrij74_ on 25 June 2013 at 7:58pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6409 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 19 of 22 25 June 2013 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yes, it's really cool!
Here's a link to the main Mission Europe site. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4721 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 20 of 22 27 June 2013 at 1:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have to respectfully disagree with Serpent and dtvrij74: I think the Mission Europe course is well produced but just too shallow. I listened to about 12 lessons with my two sons to help them with their French, and the only phrase which stuck in our heads was the oft repeated "Do you want to play? Do you want to play?"... in English of course!!
For German, Deutsche Welle has done similar, but much more in depth course called Radio D. As with Mission Europe, most of the talking is in English, but the course has significant chunks of German, which they use to train your ear to pick out key ideas. Also, the Mission Europe podcasts are only about 5-6 minutes each (if I remember correctly), but the Radio D podcasts last 18-20 minutes each. Series 1 of Radio D is aimed at A1, series 2 is aimed at A2, and both series have 26 episodes, along with substantial accompanying material, so there is a lot to get out of it. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4640 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 21 of 22 27 June 2013 at 2:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
I must admit, I haven't yet used the apply chain facility in Audacity, but it seems like a great idea. Apply Chain from Audacity manual n.b. for anyone still using an old version of Audacity (for a long time, the "Beta" was the one to use), version 2.0 was released earlier this year: Audacity version 2.0 It seems to have a lot of improvements, but note you still have to download Lame separately in order to export Audacity data to MP3 format (but their instructions make it very easy for you to get hold of it and install it). This restriction is for licensing reasons, not because they want to make life hard for people. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| YnEoS Senior Member United States Joined 4066 days ago 472 posts - 893 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish | Message 22 of 22 28 June 2013 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
Sorry for the delayed response, I forgot about this discussion for a while. I see someone already posted links to guides on using audacity but I thought I'd just offer my own explanation as well specifically for people trying to manipulate language courses. Basically a chain does the same simple commands to many audio files automatically. So to create a chain just find Edit Chains in the main menu and then select Truncate Silence, followed by Export MP3. For setting its default is to use the last settings you used, so the easiest way is to manipulate an mp3 manually first then create a chain for the rest. Or you can figure it out in the Edit Chain menu. Then just select apply chain and select all the audio files you want to modify and walk away til it's finished. I found a PDF of the Russian Madrigal course after a lot googling and false download links. Even though its and out of print course I'm not sure if it's public domain or not so I won't post any links here, but anyone who needs help finding it can send me a PM. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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