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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6985 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 217 of 245 05 March 2012 at 2:19am | IP Logged | ||
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This is a good site. A typo and wrong link in the primary post on the first page. The site http://www.leerescuchando.net/ has a lot of good free audiobooks in Spanish.
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| Gatsby42 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4421 days ago 55 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 218 of 245 29 March 2012 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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If anyone has done Spanish L-R for Alice in Wonderland, where did you get the Spanish
text? The one I bought doesn't match up with the audiobook I bought, which makes me kinda pissed off. L-R prospects seem pretty grim for Spanish speakers as is. The original thread recommended an audiobook around ten hours in length. So far, all the combined Spanish texts may add up to that together. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6219 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 219 of 245 29 March 2012 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | ||
If you're willing to use Don Quixote, it's a good deal more than 10 hours. Otherwise, if you want commercial audiobooks, you could use Harry Potter, or quite a lot of other pulp fiction novels - though you won't be able to buy parallel texts of those, just separate books. Some people have done this for various languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gatsby42 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4421 days ago 55 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 220 of 245 30 March 2012 at 12:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I hear Don Quixote is quite advanced as far as reading goes; which could be a problem in
that I'm not remotely familiar with the story. I already have the Harry Potter books on audiobook along with the e-book translations; I just heard that the translations had some mistakes on them and was seeing if there was something else I could use. It's looking like they'll be the best I got for a while. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6985 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 221 of 245 30 March 2012 at 3:30am | IP Logged | ||
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http://albalearning.com/ has a lot of audiobooks. Many of them are short, but a few are long, such as Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, etc. They all have the Spanish text. She has put up some bilingual texts with the audio. Even the ones that don't have English translations can be used for L-R by doing an on the fly translation using http://translate.google.com/.
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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6985 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 222 of 245 30 March 2012 at 3:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Another great audiobook resource for Spanish is http://librivox.org/cuentos-de-hadas-by-jacob-wilhelm-grimm/ which has matching text and stories at http://www.cuentosdegrimm.com/. This is another site with which I've used http://translate.google.com/ to create bilingual texts for Listen-Reading. Another thing I like about this particular set of recordings is that there is a variety of speakers and all of them are good. It seems to have been a labor of love for the speakers who wanted to create stories that would be pleasant for children to listen to. By putting emotion into their readings, las cuentas son buenas para todos. Edited by luke on 30 March 2012 at 3:44am 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gatsby42 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4421 days ago 55 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 223 of 245 30 March 2012 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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In another mishap, I got to learn that Los Miserables the audio reading doesn't match up
with Los Miserables the e-book. More proof that I should never pay a single dollar for this kind of thing again. Meanwhile, I have another question. What makes you think that Google Translate can be even remotely trusted in transcribing entire books? In my history with it, it's almost never reliable with anything outside of single word translations; I feel like having it transcribe an entire book would lead to disaster. Either way, thanks for the links; I'm sure if I do enough digging I'll find something that works. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| carlonove Senior Member United States Joined 5766 days ago 145 posts - 253 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 224 of 245 30 March 2012 at 10:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Check out the Spoken Wikipedia project for recordings of Wikipedia articles in various
languages: Spoken Wikipedia Here is the project page for Spanish: Wiki grabada A lot of the recordings were done a few years ago, so you may have to look up archived versions of the articles to find the ones that match the recordings verbatim. Unless you're totally new to a language it should be fairly easy to get through most articles with programs like Franker, Globefish, GT, etc. Edited by carlonove on 30 March 2012 at 10:39pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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