[OLPC library] [laptop.org #27437] Free mp3 files to learn 40 languages

[Edward Cherlin]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <cafl at msbit.com> wrote:
> I downloaded the Latin American Spanish lessons and found them quite good.
> They weren't mere words, but rather sentences related to the topic of the
> lesson, by both a male and a female speaker.

Ah. So you need the book, which is not under free license.

> The only negative was that a
> few of the lessons were somewhat adult in their topic (e.g. useful phrases
> in a nightclub) and a few other lessons taught you to ask if your
> conversation partner smoked, or whether it was allowed to smoke.  Frankly, I
> was planning to take these in the car to improve my Spanish.
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:02 PM,  <content at laptop.org> wrote:
>> > Hello Hannes,
>> >
>> > This looks like a lovely project.
>>
>> I downloaded the files and listened to some of them. They consist
>> entirely of words spoken first in English, then in German. The only
>> value I find is that there are several speakers, male and female, with
>> what I take to be different regional dialects. Unless the license
>> would enable us to segment the files into entries in a small bilingual
>> spoken dictionary.
>>
>> > Thank you for the contact and the
>> > offer. Are your Goethe Tests good things to distribute along with the
>> > audio?  What copyright license do you provide your work under?  All of
>> > our activities and collections are licensed for free reuse.
>> >
>> > You may also want to write to our library list, library at lists.laptop.org
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> > Samuel Klein
>> > One Laptop per Child
>> >
>> > On Fri Dec 12 18:17:48 2008, info at goethe-verlag.com wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> We would like to contribute for free our nonprofit audio files to learn
>> >> 40
>> >> languages to your project: www.book2.de
>> >>
>> >> Best regards,
>> >>
>> >> Hannes
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Dr. Johannes Schumann
>> >> Goethe-Verlag GmbH
>> >> Postfach 152008
>> >> 80051 Muenchen
>> >> Germany
>> >> Fax +49-(0)89-74790012
>> >> www.goethe-verlag.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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