Several Headstart Languages I'd Like to Contribute
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Category: Language Courses
Forum Name: Member Contributions
Forum Discription: If you have course materials and are planning to contribute them to the website, this is the place to let everyone know.
URL: http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=421
Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 3:05am
Topic: Several Headstart Languages I'd Like to Contribute
Posted By: MrBrown
Subject: Several Headstart Languages I'd Like to Contribute
Date Posted: 29 May 2007 at 10:09pm
Hello everybody. First I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Bud Brown. I am a polyglot and a self-confessed foreign language addict. When I first stumbled across this website, I thought I was going to wet my pants! Talk about a little boy in a candy store! In 1968 I went through DLI Monterey, CA to study Vietnamese. Then I served as an interpreter in Vietnam. When I got out, I went back to DLI as a civilian to buy as many language courses as I could afford (that was before 911, Now you can't get on base) I am hoping to contribute what I have, to be digitized. Just let me know if you already have what I want to contribute or not. I mostly have the "Headstart" programs. I have:
- French Headstart for Belgium
- Turkish Headstart
- Japanese Headstart
- Portuguese Headstart
- Italian Headstart
These were all purchased directly from DLI Monterey Can you use any of theses? Looking forward to your response. Yours for a multilingual world, Bud Brown.
------------- "Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkein
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Posted By: MrBrown
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 8:49am
I just found my Headstart for the Philippines, so it's availible too. Cheers, Bud Brown
P.S. Seems like I've got a Norwegian Headstart also somewhere in storage,,,,hmmmmm. I'll find it if anyone is interested. 
------------- "Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkein
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Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 12:09pm
Send a PM to gdfellows and see what he thinks.
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Posted By: MrBrown
Date Posted: 04 June 2007 at 8:50pm
Eureka! Just got back from my storage and found FOUR MORE DLI Headstart Courses:
Saudi Arabic Headstart
Latin America Headstart
German Headstart
Norwegian Headstart
Could someone tell me how to digitize the tapes?
Thanks. Sincerely, Bud Brown
------------- "Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkein
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Posted By: Kubelek
Date Posted: 05 June 2007 at 10:19am
I really hope that gdfellows's response will be positive.
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Posted By: onebir
Date Posted: 07 June 2007 at 9:45am
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I really hope that gdfellows's response will be positive."
Me too. But one concern about a lot of DLI material is that, although it seems pretty clearly to be in the public domain, inside the front cover there's often something saying it's "not for resale" or "for US military use only".
Mr Brown - does your material carry comments like that?
Incidentally, the implications of these comments for somebody web-publishing the material seem quite unclear. Perhaps one of our lawyer members could step up at this point?
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Posted By: MrBrown
Date Posted: 07 June 2007 at 4:34pm
Th Headstarts for
PORTUGUESE, NORWEGIAN, SAUDI ARABIC, LATIN AMERICAN and ITALIAN have http://www.internetrichesnow.com/budbrownonline/dli.jpg - this in the inside cover.
while the Headstarts for French, German, Turkish, Philippines don't have the last paragraph.. http://www.internetrichesnow.com/budbrownonline/Philippine%20Headstart.jpg - click here to see.
If the page is too small to read on your computer I'll enlarge it.
And if you want to see me speaking http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0615E83AA3CADE5D - Vietnamese or http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4CF0937D6DC2ADA7 - Tagalog or http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9A224439D0DDC201 - Spanish (on You Tube) SMILE ...click on each language. Sorry, I got a little carried away on my linking. Cheers, Bud Brown
------------- "Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkein
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Posted By: daristani
Date Posted: 07 June 2007 at 5:09pm
I'm not a lawyer, and the final decision regarding posting materials on this site is naturally one for gdfellows. But it would seem to me that the sentence in the first group of languages cited, that "Generally, products distributed by the DLIFLC may be used in any not-for-profit setting without prior approval from the DLIFLC", ought to be rather reassuring in terms of making them available publicly on a site like this one.
And Bud, whatever gdfellows might eventually decide, I want to thank you on behalf of all of us for your enthusiasm and selflessness in offering to share the materials you've collected. The site gets a fair number of posters who seem not to do much more than ask "where's X language?" or "how come this stuff is all so old?", etc., but it's the ones who share what they have, including materials they've sometimes paid a fair bit of money for, that really deserve a great deal of gratitude from everyone involved. So many, many thanks!
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Posted By: onebir
Date Posted: 07 June 2007 at 9:35pm
" PORTUGUESE, NORWEGIAN, SAUDI ARABIC, LATIN AMERICAN and ITALIAN have http://www.internetrichesnow.com/budbrownonline/dli.jpg - this in the inside cover.
while the Headstarts for French, German, Turkish, Philippines don't have the last paragraph.. http://www.internetrichesnow.com/budbrownonline/Philippine%20Headstart.jpg - click here to see."
Could someone type in the relevant paras from the links please? I'm in China, and the domain seems to be blocked. Thanks!
& what are the publication dates? If the first group post-dates the second, it (together with the "generally") suggests that the para Daristani identifies should also apply to earlier publications (unless these somehow fall outside the public domain). But I'm not a lawyer either...
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Posted By: onebir
Date Posted: 07 June 2007 at 9:50pm
Re digitizing tapes, all you need is: - a computer with a sound card, - a tape deck - a cable to plug the tape deck output into the sound card mic input (ie generally with a 3.5mm jack plug at each end) - audacity, a free programme for recording audio: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - LAME, a thingy that lets audacity work with MP3s (see http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3 - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3 for instructions about how to download & install LAME)
Once Audacity & LAME are installed (2 minute job), plug the tape deck output into the soundcard input, set the Audacity input source (to 'line in' - in a drop down menu at the bottom of the block with the File/Edit etc menus), play the tape and hit record (button with a red circle). You should see a blue wiggle representing the amplitude of what's being recorded. Fiddle with the output volume on your tape deck (&/ or the input gain control, just left of 'line in') until the wiggle is pretty big, but not getting cut off at the top or bottom. That's it for setting up a recording. Audacity tells you how much disk space you have left (see status bar near bottom of window). So you can safely abandon your PC for that long...
When the recording's finished, you can edit out long silent bits (eg start and end) - select with mouse and hit delete. Then choose "Export as MP3" to save what you recorded as an MP3 (taking up much less space than a WAV).
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Posted By: MrBrown
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 11:59pm
Darstani, Thank you for the kind words. Believe me, I'm definately benefiting from all the hard work from the movers and shakers on this site. I want to thank everyone for all their hard work It's really appreciated.
Onebir, Thanks for the digitizing instructions. I've downloaded audacity and LAME, now I've gotta figure out how to put the round pegs in the round holes. I'll let you all know my progress.
Sincerely, Bud
------------- "Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkein
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Posted By: RubberDuck
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 3:27am
Mybe use this as a tutorial??
i say tag it... 
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