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Quote DemiPuppet Replybullet Topic: Submissions
    Posted: 15 October 2007 at 8:41pm
In case anyone interested, the following texts and audio have been submitted.  I have no idea when they'll be posted.

Texts:

French Phonology Programmed Introduction - Student Text
Hausa Basic Course - Student Text
Igbo Basic Course - Student Text
Italian Programmed - Instructor's Manual
Italian Programmed - Student Text
Moré Basic Course - Student Text
Spanish Basic Course Volume 1

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Yoruba Intermediate
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Quote whatl2004 Replybullet Posted: 16 October 2007 at 5:27am
Thanks. I'm anxiously awaiting the African languages, especially the Hausa book. 
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Quote daristani Replybullet Posted: 16 October 2007 at 5:37am
DemiPuppet, you're incredible!  We're all lucky to have such a Stakhanovite working on our behalf.  Many, many thanks for all your ongoing contributions.
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Quote DemiPuppet Replybullet Posted: 16 October 2007 at 9:17pm
No problem. The university library has all the FSI original books; I just scan them (which I'll continue to do).

But I should mention that there is a number of books that I won't be scanning since they appear to contain material that probably falls under US copyright. But if someone else wants to scan them...
  1. Swahili General Conversation
  2. Swahili Geography
  3. Turkish Graded Reader
  4. Lao Basic Volume 2
  5. Contemporary Cambodian: The Land and the Economy
  6. Contemporary Cambodian: Political Institutions
  7. Contemporary Cambodian: The Social Institutions
  8. Dutch Reader
  9. Indonesian Newspaper Reader
  10. Communicating in Polish
  11. Conversational Finnish
  12. Conversational Finnish Workbook
The latter 3 have lots of foreign produced photos and drawings.  The others contain text which was originally published outside the US.

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Quote MiraW Replybullet Posted: 21 October 2007 at 1:58am
Thanks for submitting these. I'm really looking forward to using the French Phonology book.
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Quote doc4finn Replybullet Posted: 03 December 2007 at 12:50pm
Hello,
I am new to this list and am interested in learning/improving my Finnish. Aside from the recordings, are any printed materials available. Is anyone else pursuing Finnish?
Thanks,
John = doc4finn
John -- Medicus
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Quote liddytime Replybullet Posted: 04 December 2007 at 11:22am
Hey all,

I have several tapes which I copied when I worked at a University. They are from the NTIS tapes, not audio forum etc...
I found:

Hausa Units 1-30
Serbo-Croatian Units 1-25 and
Amharic Units 1-50

I thought I had Bulgarian too but I can't for the life of me find it right now.
I have no way to digitize them so I was wondering if I could send them to one of you with that capability for use on the site? Please let me know, I'd be more then happy to donate them!

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Quote daristani Replybullet Posted: 04 December 2007 at 2:02pm
liddytime, this is great news, and I hope that someone with the right equipment will take you up on your kind offer.

As you can see from an earlier posting in this same thread, there is interest in the Hausa tapes; the text is already available on the site.

Re Serbo-Croatian, the first volume of the text was posted on the site some months ago, but some of the pages were not very clear.  I had a clearer copy of the book, which I sent to gdfellows for scanning, but given the lack of audio it's been very much on the back burner.  So if someone could prepare the tapes, this would be a useful contribution.  (A number of people have expressed interest in Serbo-Croatian over the past year or so, but apparently the tapes have been hard to come by, so your tapes would be a very valuable contribution.  Also, if memory serves, I had offered gdfellows volume two of the book (again, the book only, not the audio), but he said he already had volume two.)  Hopefully, someone will be able to take you up on your offer re the tapes.

As for Amharic, the complete set of tapes is available at this site:

http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/amharic_a400.html

so I would think that would be a lower priority.

Finally, volume one of the  Bulgarian textbook is supposedly available on the site, although the link doesn't seem to work; so if you were able to find the audio tapes, that would also be a very useful contribution.

In any event, many thanks for your offer to share what you have.  A fair number of the courses on the site have in fact become available through just such a division of labor, with one person providing the text and someone else the audio, or, as in some of the material that I've donated, gdfellows digitizing materials for which I didn't have the equipment to do so.  
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Quote morprussell Replybullet Posted: 05 December 2007 at 11:40am
liddytime, thanks for offering these tapes.  I know they will be appreciated, especially the Serbo-Croatian course (by me).  Thanks!
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Quote Chung Replybullet Posted: 13 December 2007 at 11:13am

If I had time, I would digitalize the Serbo-Croatian tapes. Unfortunately, if I were to try to do it now with my schedule the way that it is, you wouldn't see the tapes for a year. Unhappy

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