Re: Natlang audio resource

Do you have any experience with the Liahona?

I've been trying to learn German, and trying to find low-level reading has
been difficult.

I've also been trying to find listening materials and hadn't considered
this.

Thanx

-----Original Message-----
From: James Worlton [mailto:JWorlton@LIBRARY.UNT.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:11 AM
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Subject: Natlang audio resource


For those of you who, like me, like to listen frequently to natlang
audio you may want to check out:
http://www.lds.org/conference/apr2004/archive/0,18374,5186-1,00.html

OK, so it's religious (Mormon), but the selection of languages is
quite nice:

Bulgarian, Cambodian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English,
Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian, Hmong, Hungarian,
Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kiribati, Korean, Laotian, Mongolian,
Navajo, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan,
Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Thai, Tongan, Ukranian,
Vietnamese.

The languages are voiced over, with the English version very quiet
in the background. In streaming Real Audio (16k--so even dial-up
connections will work :) ) and MP3 (32k--so the 2 hour meetings
fit into about 28 MB).

Hopefully this doesn't violate the no cross/no crown rule (I present
this as a linguistic resource, I'm not proselytizing), and is useful to
some of you.

James Worlton