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. 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. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Edward Cherlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:02 PM, <<a href="mailto:content@laptop.org">content@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello Hannes,<br>
><br>
> This looks like a lovely project.<br>
<br>
I downloaded the files and listened to some of them. They consist<br>
entirely of words spoken first in English, then in German. The only<br>
value I find is that there are several speakers, male and female, with<br>
what I take to be different regional dialects. Unless the license<br>
would enable us to segment the files into entries in a small bilingual<br>
spoken dictionary.<br>
<br>
> Thank you for the contact and the<br>
> offer. Are your Goethe Tests good things to distribute along with the<br>
> audio? What copyright license do you provide your work under? All of<br>
> our activities and collections are licensed for free reuse.<br>
><br>
> You may also want to write to our library list, <a href="mailto:library@lists.laptop.org">library@lists.laptop.org</a><br>
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> One Laptop per Child<br>
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> On Fri Dec 12 18:17:48 2008, <a href="mailto:info@goethe-verlag.com">info@goethe-verlag.com</a> wrote:<br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> We would like to contribute for free our nonprofit audio files to learn 40<br>
>> languages to your project: <a href="http://www.book2.de" target="_blank">www.book2.de</a><br>
>><br>
>> Best regards,<br>
>><br>
>> Hannes<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Dr. Johannes Schumann<br>
>> Goethe-Verlag GmbH<br>
>> Postfach 152008<br>
>> 80051 Muenchen<br>
>> Germany<br>
>> Fax +49-(0)89-74790012<br>
>> <a href="http://www.goethe-verlag.com" target="_blank">www.goethe-verlag.com</a><br>
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