On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:02 PM, <[email protected]> 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, [email protected] >> > >> > Sincerely, >> > Samuel Klein >> > One Laptop per Child >> > >> > On Fri Dec 12 18:17:48 2008, [email protected] 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Library mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name >> And Children are my nation. >> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai >> _______________________________________________ >> Library mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > > > > -- > "Don't think for a minute that power concedes. We have to work like our > future depends on it." -- Barack Obama > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
