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Shagreen
Newbie ![]() Joined: 11 October 2008 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 3 |
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I have the 1963 version of Mastering Japanese, developed by the Foreign Service Institute (but published by Barron's). It's on cassette tapes. If it meets the requirements for this site, I could digitalize it. The included booklet is "Beginning Japanese" 1963, by Eleanor Harz Jorden.
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DemiPuppet
Administrator ![]() Joined: 27 May 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 163 |
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To eliminate any possible copyright issues, the site only allows print and audio material published by the US government.
Fortunately the audio for the far superior and more recent Jorden course "Japanese: The Spoken Japanese" and "Japanese: he Written Language" is available for free (as in beer, not as in speach) from the Ohio State web site. The books are were used for college Japanese courses in the 80's and 90's and used copies are available for next to nothing. The books and audio are copyrighted. The audio has been recently been re-recorded and is flawless. Audio: languagelab.it.ohio-state.edu/ (Click on the 2nd Japanese tag that explicitly states that a password is not required. The assumption is that the explicit statement that no password is required means anyone can use the materials...) Books: www.bookfinder.com/ (Search for "Japanese: The Spoken Language and Japanese: The Written Language)" |
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Shagreen
Newbie ![]() Joined: 11 October 2008 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 3 |
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Yes you are right, these newer recordings are very good. Perhaps too good...
Weirdly, what I like about the old FSI courses is their slightly disdainful tone - for example the male presenter in the French course, and the woman in the German. And the Spanish course has the feel of an old Hollywood film of the 50s. So much less grating on the nerves than say, that deliriously perky woman on some of the Berlitz recordings! Thanks for the links. Perhaps the languagelab.it.ohio-state.edu/ link should be placed on the home page? Just a thought. |
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Shagreen
Newbie ![]() Joined: 11 October 2008 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 3 |
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If anyone is interested in getting the old Mastering Japanese course, I have digitalized & torrentized the cassette tapes. It's seeding now at edit.
![]() Edit: Sorry Shagreen, I need to edit the post per the Forum Guidelines on pirate material. It's my understanding that the "Mastering Japanese" course by Barron's is a wrapper for Jorden's copyrighted 1962 "Beginning Japanese Pt 1" book and some audio tapes. Jorden's book had its US copyright renewed in 1990 (Registration Number / Date: RE0000463354 / 1990-01-12). I know it may seem hypocritical that I posted the link to Ohio State University site, but the university placed the item on their own website and provide a true name and address for anyone to contest the posting of the material. Edited by DemiPuppet - 03 November 2008 at 6:32pm |
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