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Does anyone know where to find DLI cassettes?

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Topic: Does anyone know where to find DLI cassettes?
Posted By: liddytime
Subject: Does anyone know where to find DLI cassettes?
Date Posted: 22 April 2008 at 11:05am
Does anyone out there know where to find the DLI cassettes that go along with their retired courses from the 60's and 70's? (...other than that guy on e-bay....)

I know most of the pdf's are available on ERIC but they aren't real useful without the sound files.   

I even e-mailed DLI and they said that they don't even keep any of those courses around because they took up too much space! It's a shame because the ones I have used have been absolutely fantastic (Arabic/ Serbo Croatian)

BL



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Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 26 April 2008 at 2:57pm
Lawrence University in Appleton Wisconsin has the following DLI sound recordings (as well as texts) in it's library ( http://www.lawrence.edu/library/ - http://www.lawrence.edu/library ) :

Albanian Basic (55 cassettes)
Arabic Basic (91 cassettes)
Bulgarian Basic (45 cassettes)
Burmese Basic (5 cassettes)
Greek Basic (35 cassettes)
Indonesian Basic (129 cassettes)
Italian Headstart (21 cassettes)
Korean Basic (102 cassettes)
Persian Basic (54 cassettes)
Russian Basic (65 cassettes)
Swahili Basic (35 cassettes)
Thai Basic (44 cassettes)
Vietnamese Basic (50 cassettes)

Note: I have Italian Headstart and will submit it when I get a chance.




Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 26 April 2008 at 4:45pm
That's a lot of tapes for Indonesian.


Posted By: liddytime
Date Posted: 28 April 2008 at 11:24am
Hey there DP!!!
 
Do you know if Lawrence has the files online or if they do any sort of interlibrary loan??
 
BL


Posted By: workerbee
Date Posted: 28 April 2008 at 7:16pm
As far as I know, the files are not online, nor do they do interlibrary loan...at least out to a state U. in sunny CA. I think one either needs to be somehow affiliated with Lawrence U. (When my friend who works in my state U's library called and emailed, the Lawrence library folk were not very receptive to the idea...)

Any one go to Lawrence U or another Wisconsin college? It would be cool to get them.


Posted By: liddytime
Date Posted: 30 April 2008 at 10:45am
Yeah...  I didn't figure they would be too excited about sending 50+ cassettes half way across the country....  Oh well...
 
The main Course from them I am interested in is the Japanese Basic Course.  Only one module made it to ERIC.
 
Anyone got this one out there?!?!......Anyone???
 
BL


Posted By: newyorkeric
Date Posted: 08 May 2008 at 4:17am
Italian Headstart would be very nice to have. Thanks DemiPuppet.



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