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Quote Poetry Replybullet Topic: Luganda course in Waiting state
    Posted: 22 March 2007 at 6:56pm
I have access to the FSI Luganda basic course text. I can scan the text to pdf and hand it off to gdfellows.

Is that wanted? I notice that it's in a Waiting state on the Status page --gdfellows has the tapes but not the text.

If so, I can start in on it in a week or so once I get home.

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Quote raincrowlee Replybullet Posted: 23 March 2007 at 11:31am
Any and all additions are appreciated.
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Quote Poetry Replybullet Posted: 29 March 2007 at 11:19am
OK, I've got the text for both the Luganda basic course and the Luganda pretraining course in hand.

I'll start the scanning of the basic course this weekend. Maybe the pretraining course after.

According to the Status page, tapes for the Luganda basic course are in someone's possession. There were once tapes with the pretraining course, but I can't find any reference to them anywhere. Looks like maybe the pretraining course tapes are lost forever unless someone has them.

Our library here has many of the African language course texts. They do not have any of the sound recordings here. I am searching other areas.

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Quote gallowayd Replybullet Posted: 13 May 2007 at 10:53am
Hi!

It appears someone has already done some hard work posting the audio:

http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/luganda_a400.html

The text does not appear to be there though.

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Quote onebir Replybullet Posted: 13 May 2007 at 9:57pm
Originally posted by gallowayd

It appears someone has already done some hard work posting the audio:

http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/luganda_a400.html


Where do you think we got the audio from? ;-)  However it was passworded before we pointed out that the material was in the public domain, and I'm a bit suprised they haven't password protected it again.  (Some uni sites are worried about bandwidth costs - Indiana doesn't seem to be).

If anyone finds other FSI stuff online, from a reputable source, please do point it out though!
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Quote Poetry Replybullet Posted: 13 June 2007 at 5:23pm
Just to let everyone know that I haven't let the digitization effort for Luganda drop. I'm still working on it, but it's slow going on the scanning and the cleanup after.

(Went to Disney for a vacation, and I think I just bought a house. Maybe. We're waiting to get the ratified contract. It's been a busy month and a half.)

--Poetry

(Yep. Just got the word. We've bought a house.)

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Quote tobymoorhouse Replybullet Posted: 27 December 2007 at 5:00am

I am very keen on getting the text.. I too have downloaded the WMA files from Indiana Uni but naturally the text would be extremely useful!

I'm off to work in Uganda as of August. Both my wife and I are doctors and very keen to get a basic vocab.
 
Webale! ;-)
 
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Quote gerako Replybullet Posted: 27 October 2008 at 12:27pm
Does anyone know if there is an update on this? I would like to find the text for the Luganda Pretraining Program
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Quote Poetry Replybullet Posted: 27 October 2008 at 4:48pm
Hi Gerako,
Wow, I feel guilty. I've had the books in my possession for over a year now and haven't finished the digitization. I have both the Luganda Pre-Training and the Luganda basic course.

The biggest issue that I found with digitizing them is that they are bound into a hardbound book format from the University library. The binding edge creates an issue when I try to lay them on the flatbed scanner. The scanner ends up missing a portion of the text on the edge of the page. One of the other contributors mentioned a method of using GIMP to edit in the missing text by basically cutting and pasting letters out of the rest of the text and editing it in by hand.

Our family bought a house last summer. We haven't sold the old one because of the market conditions, and we've been working around the move-in/unpack/settle in here in the new house; work; and fixing up the old one so that it is clean and bright and neutral. It really threw my schedule more than I thought it would.   I haven't had time at all in the last year to work on it. Though I've carefully made sure that the books weren't lost in the move. (My box with all of my computer's cables was lost, unfortunately. It's in one of the unnamed cartons in the garage, I fear.)

The Pre-Training book did not have any audio tapes associated with it. The language is tonal, and the way that it creates changes in verb state reminds me of the Arabic 3-letter root system.

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Quote Poetry Replybullet Posted: 27 October 2008 at 4:54pm
Actually, in checking the forum, it looks like the text is loaded up there. The only thing missing is the Luganda Pre-Training course. That Pre-Training course does not have audio associated with it.

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