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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=661
Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 2:27am


Topic: Additional Files Available
Posted By: DemiPuppet
Subject: Additional Files Available
Date Posted: 07 September 2008 at 7:19pm
Since there has been a dearth of new files available on the site, I've place the following texts and audio on a download site. These are all in the US public domain and created from the original government published materials.  Just use the http addresses:

Luganda Pretraining (9.71M)    http://ifile.it/2tajsqu
Metropolitan French FAST (27.1M) http://ifile.it/14y0u7l
Modern Written Arabic Volume 1 (9.71M)    http://ifile.it/oky4f2p
Modern Written Arabic Volume 1 (9.71M)    http://ifile.it/gfd460k
Shona Basic (17.05M)    http://ifile.it/dm2nz46
Sinhala Basic Vol 2 (8.56M)    http://ifile.it/2uptvid
Spanish Basic Volume 3 (21.6M)    http://ifile.it/h29tznc
Spanish Basic Volume 4 (15.65M) http://ifile.it/p4ugvb1
Spanish Programmatic Vol 2 (added missing pages, 21.97M)    http://ifile.it/nl8fdx4
Sub-Saharan French (21.5M)    http://ifile.it/l631hj8
Suplemento para Secretarias (2.44M)    http://ifile.it/tnvb7q8
Testing Kit - French and Spanish (5.5M)    http://ifile.it/scyhkq0
Thai Reference Grammar (10.47M)    http://ifile.it/jbldrq1
Yoruba Intermediate Texts (8.45M)    http://ifile.it/9nx2q5i
Lingala Basic (11M) http://www.mediafire.com/file/v3xkogtk76a/LingalaBasic.zip
German Programmed Introduction (15.92)   http://ifile.it/6vpblu0/germanprogrammedintroduction.zip
Fula Basic (17.29M)  http://www.mediafire.com/file/3go0zveyg2n/FulaBasic.zip
Contemporary Cambodian Introduction (42.39M)  http://www.mediafire.com/file/qanymzwmhoz/ContemporaryCambodianIntro.zip
Japanese FAST (16.71M) http://ifile.it/n2c3jbm/japanesefast.zip
Amharic Basic Vol 1 (Corrected page 324, 17.16M) http://www.mediafire.com/file/zjmjzn1jmyg/AmharicBasicVol1.zip
Contemporary Cambodian Glossary (16.05M)  http://www.mediafire.com/file/myzzmzwmtqy/ContemporaryCambodianGlossary.zip


Also audio:
Swahili Basic Audio (Lessons 96 - 150) (17.66M)    http://ifile.it/rc6u7t8
Metropolitan French Audio (75.71M)   http://www.mediafire.com/file/zm44i5gqgvm/MetroFrenchAudio.zip
VietnameseBasicVol2 Audio (81M)   http://www.mediafire.com/file/cmm00nfyv4w/VietnameseBasicVol2AudioPart1.zip
VietnameseBasicVol2 Audio (69M)   http://www.mediafire.com/file/s6am0vtlipi/VietnameseBasicVol2AudioPart2.zip
Yoruba Intermediate Texts Audio(37M)   http://www.mediafire.com/file/kpmgzys4n6s/YorubaIntermediateTexts.zip
ThaiBasicVol2 Audio(97.96M)   http://www.mediafire.com/file/dzwynojmjbi/ThaiBasicVol2AudioPart1.zip
ThaiBasicVol2 Audio(79.05M)   http://www.mediafire.com/file/f64a8kfxfyl/ThaiBasicVol2AudioPart2.zip
GermanProgrammedAudio_Part1(88.38M)  http://www.mediafire.com/file/tywy2k5q5t3/GermanProgrammedAudio_Part1.zip
GermanProgrammedAudio_Part2(91.32M)  http://www.mediafire.com/file/4znji3ylzwm/GermanProgrammedAudio_Part2.zip
GermanProgrammedAudio_Part3(70.8M)  http://www.mediafire.com/file/02rtzmzc2mz/GermanProgrammedAudio_Part3.zip
KoreanBasicVol1Audio_Part1(85.06M)  http://www.mediafire.com/file/dtdm2zlj23m/KoreanBasicVol1Audio_Part1.zip
KoreanBasicVol1Audio_Part2(80.62M)  http://www.mediafire.com/file/nrmmqkmtzlq/KoreanBasicVol1Audio_Part2.zip
KoreanBasicVol1Audio_Part3(76.18M)  http://www.mediafire.com/file/tjyenrzzlwx/KoreanBasicVol1Audio_Part3.zip

I've included an additional  text file(s) with with each of the above explaining why they are in the US public domain. As always, these files are also in the public domain in countries that implement the "Rule of the Shorter Term" for US works in their respected copyright laws (i.e. EU Countries, India, Japan, Turkey, etc).

Special Note: While in the public domain in the US and several other countries, the files are copyrighted in countries that do not implement the rule (i.e. Canada, Mainland China, Mexico, etc) and residents of those countries need to verify that they can legally download the files. The Gutenberg people believe it is legal to download, but not to make further copies or changes.

The audio files for Metro French, Korean Vol 1, Thai Vol 2, Vietnamese Vol 2, and Yoruba texts as well as most of the text files were sent to gdfellows several months ago, so eventually they should show up on the official download portion of the site.

MD5 hash codes
LugandaPretraining.zip    CD33E7912D6E1DEEBEB54DE2AA27F6D6
MetropolitanFrenchFAST.zip    9B3D544CC7CF531D9DFB20DD9205172F
ModernWrittanArabicVolume1.zip    14DF0B3208FB5D42993A1EB2D0AA2485
ModernWrittenArabicVolume2.zip    1F0CF95A4F3BEB33FAF7EB3111C9651A
ShonaBasic.zip    E9DF05D7AE0DB1CABBE5A1231F3D170F
SinhalaBasic.zip    11F12E7285B60FEEF3F81E0B3D1F8035
SpanishBasicVol3.zip    5DD224F13223F5D5F7C8814279632B9B
SpanishBasicVol4.zip    CBE3782984E06535D62ED71094FF9E21
SpanishProgrammaticVol2.zip    296A8B8DD5F9BB41AF7EA782187EDA3F
SubSaharanFrenchFAST.zip    E0BE7E81838872BAE4E502F71043B3EE
SuplementoParaSecretarias.zip    264CDDA51CED0D75333A4624F9E927B8
SwahiliBasicAudio95-150.zip    DD5F4B33FD166C6E968E0C1B6F763717
TestingKitFrenchAndSpanish.zip    2CB4E61CFECB945D42E3A19BA5EFF8E4
ThaiReferenceGrammar.zip    21D662BD065D1DCDBFF13F6064F7A4FF
YorubaIntermediate.zip    A918CDA4FCDA4B1DC4880DF89D327B44
MetroFrenchAudio.zip   AD7CAC103AA6A7287257CCD60E28FF7C
LingalaBasic.zip   5862CA191F515148F9853C3014BC1AF7
VietnameseBasicVol2AudioPart2.zip   4DA65B334128EA84D3F2F0D9FDEDB894
VietnameseBasicVol2AudioPart1.zip   7729AA6C4B5D21E0B7C7D5DDBAA1D3AC
YorubaIntermediateTexts.zip   698D47EFE8F5B6E557DC6995589D660C
ThaiBasicVol2AudioPart1.zip   F72862D3A50FE92DC4D3EEEBD7E635E3
ThaiBasicVol2AudioPart2.zip   368AC2DF5021CD3CE773E7E58E64A4BF
GermanProgrammedIntroduction.zip   B1012165370CCD5417C653DFA6A12885
GermanProgrammedAudio_Part1.zip 0DC3C4F25FBEE86613C32D06B582E73D
GermanProgrammedAudio_Part2.zip 9886D633CA63B4E6A5AC55D262612F1A
GermanProgrammedAudio_Part3.zip 7095B4DE87AF170F1E414B233B152897
KoreanBasicVol1Audio_Part1.zip 119E9C742DF6B223E9092D596A360B18
KoreanBasicVol1Audio_Part2.zip 34CFB19710BC2FED4D8AA3134C901F72
KoreanBasicVol1Audio_Part3.zip 5737B1CAB0C7C60B30798F8DD8E99DA9
FulaBasic.zip 2032246E584EA7CA8B8B1743BC162BF5
ContemporaryCambodianIntro.zip DE3995A724CBB9D4F238EC4DEF1958CB
JapaneseFAST.zip FC6ECACF1C83373694EDC825DA7F0357
AmharicBasicVol1.zip 0C78E0E893D6F1BA5897377E37A5C69B
ContemporaryCambodianGlossary.zip 881F33E9029A57008469D435B671DBD8

Edit
2008.09.08
I've added the MD5 hash codes to verify file integrity.
2008.09.09
Added Metro French Audio
2008.09.13
Added Lingala text, Vietnamese Vol 2 Audio, Yoruba Intermediate Audio, Thai Vol 2 Audio
2008.09.22
Added GermanProgrammed Introduction text and audio
2008.09.23
Added Korean Vol 1 audio
2008.10.19
Replaced Zshare with MediaFire for German and Korean audio. Each is broken into 3 separate files. Also added Fula Basic and Contemporary Cambodian: Introduction.
2008.10.28
Added Japanese Familiarization and Short Term Training
2008.11.06 Replaced Zshare with MediaFire for Metro French
2008.11.19 Added corrected version of Amharic Basic Vol 1
2008.12.24 Added Contemporary Cambodian Glossary



Replies:
Posted By: newyorkeric
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 12:37am
Lots of great stuff DemiPuppet. Thanks for making it available.

Any chance that you will be uploading the Italian Headstart?


Posted By: JennieLynn
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 4:04pm
Thanks DemiPuppet!  Any chance you could maybe make torrents out of the larger files you couldn't upload so people can download them from PirateBay or Mininova?

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http://www.ielanguages.com - Indo-European Languages Website
http://www.ielanguages.com/blog/ - Jennie en France Blog


Posted By: JennieLynn
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 4:08pm
Anyone else having problems downloading Sub-Saharan French, Spanish Vol. 4 or Yoruba Intermediate?  I keep getting a server error for those three.

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http://www.ielanguages.com - Indo-European Languages Website
http://www.ielanguages.com/blog/ - Jennie en France Blog


Posted By: daristani
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 5:55pm
Many thanks once again, DemiPuppet, for all your work!

Jennie, I was just able to download vol 4 of the Spanish text.  I tried earlier today, and couldn't get anything to download correctly, so it may have been some sort of problem with the ifile.it site.  But I was just able to download several items with no problems, so if I were you, I'd keep trying.


Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 8:46pm
I double checked the download addresses. They appear to be correct.

Unfortunately, torrents have taken on a bad reputation as a tool for copyright infringement.  I'm going to stay away from them.  Hopefully gdfellows will upload the files to the site.

Note: The files above were all run through the Acrobat OCR tool so you should be able to cut and paste. Only the first few pages of the Sinhala and Arabic books were OCR'd. The OCR accuracy will certainly be less than 100%.


Posted By: solniger
Date Posted: 09 September 2008 at 1:30am

Thanks for completing the Swahili audio ... I think that will make many of us happy (just to see some activity at this site makes me happy!)

Now, what about the remaining audio from the Hungarian reader?


Posted By: JennieLynn
Date Posted: 09 September 2008 at 9:09am
Was just able to download the ones that I couldn't yesterday. Thanks again DemiPuppet.

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http://www.ielanguages.com - Indo-European Languages Website
http://www.ielanguages.com/blog/ - Jennie en France Blog


Posted By: Zonker
Date Posted: 09 September 2008 at 5:17pm
Thanks DemiPuppet.
 
This is a fantastic contribution. I too hope the audios become available in time.


Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 09 September 2008 at 8:52pm
Added Metropolitan French audio above.

The audio is from the original US government recordings.  As always, I've attached a file explaining why the audio is in the public domain. In short - the audio is in the US public domain because it was published after 1978 and before 1 Mar 1989 without a copyright notice or subsequent filing within 5 years.  It was also created by a US federal employee in the course of their normal work and is thus exempt under US copyright laws (17 U.S.C. § 105).

Note: The first file share service limits me to 250M. Zshare is 100M. We''ll see how this all works out. Hopefully gdfellows will add these to this site's home page.


Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 13 September 2008 at 6:58pm
Updated file list in initial topic post. See the 1st page of the topic.


Posted By: Zonker
Date Posted: 13 September 2008 at 8:57pm
Thanks again. This is a wonderful contribution.


Posted By: mantis
Date Posted: 14 September 2008 at 6:29am
Thanks for your contributions.  I saw the Yoruba intermeditae but the basic course audio was never pasted on the site.  Do you have that and can you provide a download link?  Any other courses you may have links to will be appreciated as well as they are not seeming to get posted on the site.


thanks


Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 14 September 2008 at 8:34am
I don't have the Yoruba Basic Course audio, but a quick search via http://www.worldcat.org/ reveals that the government produced tapes (as opposed to Audio-Forum) are available at several universities and the following public libraries:

     Los Angeles Public Library
     Milwaukee County Federated Library System
     Buffalo & Erie County Public Library

Because copyright of pre-1972 audio is based on state and not federal law, I believe only government published sources can be safely used. I always keep a picture copy of the tapes as evidence of their source.

I have government published audio for Korean Vol 1 and German Programmed Introduction. Don't ask me when they will be posted.

I have the government published text and audio for the following DLI Headstart courses as well as proof that these specific DLI courses are in the US public domain:

     Italian, French for Belgium, German, and Latin American Spanish

The site owner, gdfellows,  stated a while back in a post that DLI material will not be put on this site. I will honor that. When I've completed the material (no time soon) I'll send a PM to onebir. He mentioned on the how-to-learn-any-language site that he would take care of DLI material.






Posted By: newyorkeric
Date Posted: 16 September 2008 at 11:06pm
Thanks for your contributions, DemiPuppet.


Posted By: Talairan
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 6:50am
DemiPuppet,
 
Many thanks for all your work in getting these uploaded. It is much appreciated.
 
Tal.


Posted By: dalaohu
Date Posted: 19 October 2008 at 1:21am
Could anyone reupload 1.German Programmed Intoduction Audio and 2. Korean Basic Vol1 Audio.zip?
Zshare doesn't work, ifile or mediafire would be great.


Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 19 October 2008 at 9:49am
I didn't realize how annoying and non user friendly Zshare is.  I'm splitting them into smaller hunks and moving to mediafire.  Check back in a few hours...

Edit - New links created. See the first post in this topic.

Note:
I'm posting the files in this manner and not on the main download page is because my administrative powers are limited to only monitoring the forums.  I haven't heard anything from the site owner, gdfellows, since April.

All audio files are all encoded at 48kbits ABR (50% higher than the 32Kbit CBR on the site's main download page).  I'm using The Lame encoder version 3.98 with the following command line options "--abr 48 -mm --resample 22.05 -q 0".

Edit - I also added Fula Basic and Contemporary Cambodian: Introduction. Note that Contemporary Cambodian: Political Institutions and Contemporary Cambodian: The Land and the Economy are available as PDFs from http://www.eric.ed.gov/


Posted By: Zonker
Date Posted: 24 October 2008 at 12:09am
Originally posted by DemiPuppet

Edit - I also added Fula Basic and Contemporary Cambodian: Introduction. Note that Contemporary Cambodian: Political Institutions and Contemporary Cambodian: The Land and the Economy are available as PDFs from http://www.eric.ed.gov/
 
Thanks for the new files, DemiPuppet: this is another great contribution. I am particularly delighted to get the Contemporary Cambodian doc. While I have worked through Huffman's program and am finishing FSI, I am keen to locate other material for this language.
 
Can I pick your brain on this one? I understand that there were some audios for the Contemporary Cambodian series, but have been unable to locate copies in any library in my country (Australia), and have not even seen reference to these in discussion forums. Have you happened to spot audios for this material available anywhere, either for purchase or public domain?
 


Posted By: daristani
Date Posted: 24 October 2008 at 5:41am
Zonker, I don't know about audio for Contemporary Cambodian, but Dunwoody Publications, in the US, produces some materials for Cambodian, with audio.  Their Cambodian page is here:  http://www.dunwoodypress.com/search.php?tpl=17&catid=7&searchname=cambodian&submit.x=3&submit.y=20&submit=GO

 


Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 24 October 2008 at 7:33pm
Tapes for all the FSI courses are available from the US government. They ship to overseas destinations.

http://www.ntis.gov - www.ntis.gov

Search for "Contemporary Cambodian" on the "product search page"

Beginning Courses:
Cambodian Basic Volume 2: 29 tapes
Contemporary Cambodian: Introduction: 54 tapes

Advanced Contemporary Cambodian Courses:
The Land and the Economy: 14 tapes
The Social Institutions: 15 tapes
Political Institutions: 15 tapes

All of the above are before the time of the Khmer Rouge and are somewhat out of date. They were recorded in the early-mid 70's and probably sound excellent.





Posted By: raincrowlee
Date Posted: 25 October 2008 at 4:57pm
Demipuppet

I've been away from the site for a while and just found out that you added these downloads. Thank you very much for your hard work and dedication. I for one am happy that you've completed the Swahili course and added the audio for Vietnamese and Thai.


Posted By: Zonker
Date Posted: 25 October 2008 at 11:19pm
Originally posted by daristani

Zonker, I don't know about audio for Contemporary Cambodian, but Dunwoody Publications, in the US, produces some materials for Cambodian, with audio.  Their Cambodian page is here:  http://www.dunwoodypress.com/search.php?tpl=17&catid=7&searchname=cambodian&submit.x=3&submit.y=20&submit=GO

 
 
Thanks for the reply. I am aware of the Dunwoody courses, but am uncertain about the quality of these, and of the degree of overlap with FSI and the Huffman program. They are not in any library here, and I noticed some correspondents ont the HTLAL website were somewhat unhappy with ordering from Dunwoody. I'd be keen to hear from anyone who has used these, or who could advise whether they are substantial revisions of FSI/DSI material.
 
Originally posted by DemiPuppet

Tapes for all the FSI courses are available from the US government. They ship to overseas destinations.

http://www.ntis.gov/ - www.ntis.gov

Search for "Contemporary Cambodian" on the "product search page"

Beginning Courses:
Cambodian Basic Volume 2: 29 tapes
Contemporary Cambodian: Introduction: 54 tapes

Advanced Contemporary Cambodian Courses:
The Land and the Economy: 14 tapes
The Social Institutions: 15 tapes
Political Institutions: 15 tapes

All of the above are before the time of the Khmer Rouge and are somewhat out of date. They were recorded in the early-mid 70's and probably sound excellent.
 
Thanks for the tip. Hadn't spotted these in previous searches.
 
Much appreciated.


Posted By: daristani
Date Posted: 26 October 2008 at 7:35pm
Zonker, I haven't ever used, or even seen, the Dunwoody Cambodian materials, and so I can't comment on them directly.  I have bought a number of books and some audio materials from Dunwoody in languages I'm more interested in, such as the Turkic and Iranian languages.  Without exception, they've been of very high physical quality, i.e., true hardcover books on good quality paper and very tight binding.  Truly, the ones I've seen look as if they'd last almost forever.  In terms of content, they vary in accord with the writers; the Kurmanji Kurdish dictionary is not very good, but the reader in the same dialect is excellent. 

So in a sense I feel confident in "vouching for" the company in general, in stating that I don't think their prices are overly high in terms of the physical quality of the books, especially in light of the very small market that most of these books have. 

Your hesitation re the substance of the Cambodian materials is certainly justified, though, especially if they might be reworkings (or even copies) of materials you're already aware of.  I don't know how many people on this board study Cambodian; my impression is that a fair number of people just come to the site to download materials, and don't bother to register in the forum or even to read it, so you may not have much luck in getting comments from anyone here.  If there are forums elsewhere more specifically devoted to Southeast Asian languages, or even Cambodian, you might have better luck posting questions there.  In any event, good luck with your studies.


Posted By: Zonker
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 7:16pm
Daristani, thanks for the comments about the Dunwoody materials, which I find reassuring. I'll request info on the nature of the program (whether it is identical to or a significant revision of DSI/FSI program) and may then go ahead and purchase it - once the $US/AUS exchange rate becomes more reasonable again!
 
Thanks also for the encouraging remarks. 


Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 24 December 2008 at 7:02pm
I've added "Contemporary Cambodian Glossary" to the first post as well as to http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=692 - fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=692 . The listed link also includes files uploaded by other people.

A far superior dictionary is available from SEAlang:

http://sealang.net/khmer/dictionary.htm - sealang.net/khmer/dictionary.htm




Posted By: Zonker
Date Posted: 26 December 2008 at 4:43am
Thanks for the new Cambodian material: very much appreciated.


Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 26 December 2008 at 7:52am
Note to anyone lives in the Chicago area:

The http://www.poplarcreek.lib.il.us/ - PoplarCreek Library apparently has the government published audio tapes for the following courses still not on this site:

Contemporary Cambodian Introduction
Cambodian Basic Volume 2
Programmed Italian

The Chicago Public Library has the following audio:

Fula Basic
Chinyanja Basic
Swahili, an active introduction: geography
Swahili, an active introduction: general conversation.
Modern Written Arabic
Kirundi


The nearby Milwaukee public library system also has most of the missing African language courses.



Posted By: ThaGreatGonzo
Date Posted: 26 December 2008 at 2:15pm
Anyone have a lead on Kituba Audio ?



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