小林 多喜二 - 蟹工船 （こばやし たきじ - かにこうせん）
Kobayasi Takiji - The Factory Ship
audio + texts Japanese and English, the texts are not parallel. The reader is very good.
Kobayasi Takiji - kanikousen 1-10 3h53min kotoba Watanabe

dead links

www.voiceblog.jp/nippon/ (reupload)
Texts:
http://www.voiceblog.jp/nippon/
There seems to be no audio there any longer.
Here it is:
(audio + texts)
http://www.mediafire.com/?uzijvtyvu9mtgl6
http://www.mediafire.com/?1pz159rt7uxf3lx
http://www.mediafire.com/?mdbstd92qor68ll

松尾 芭蕉 奥の細道 おくのほそ道 (reupload)
Matsuo Bashō Oku no Hosomichi audio+Japanese+English
Who he is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D
From various sources, freely available.
Two recordings: male and female readers.
And a parallel Japanese-English text.
http://www.mediafire.com/?3cc87ibr0n56qc6

I know, I know... the majority don't give a damn about such stuff. Fortunately it is not for the majority, but for the happy few...

To the contrary, your efforts are much appreciated. It is just that many of us are beginners and that such materials will be useful only later. Just curious: how many years have you been doing this? Can you understand these recordings?

louischa Wrote:To the contrary, your efforts are much appreciated. It is just that many of us are beginners and that such materials will be useful only later. Just curious: how many years have you been doing this? Can you understand these recordings?

No (rising-falling intonation), I've no idea about Japanese, for me it is just Chinese in disguise, or to put it in plain English: Japanese is Greek to me, nothing more than double Dutch.
The only Japanese word I know is 自我 - my sister kindly explained in a letter to me that it is the philosophical 'I' in Japanese. Double me or something: Double, double, toil and trouble.

Ha! Then thanks for your selfless efforts anyways. I'll tackle double Dutch sometime later, after I get more comfortable wih disguised chinese...

louischa Wrote:Ha! Then thanks for your selfless efforts anyways. I'll tackle double Dutch sometime later, after I get more comfortable wih disguised chinese...

To get more comfortable you'd first have to have some prophetic dreams.
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/for...PN=1&TPN=1

3 stories by Akutagawa, parallel texts + audio by various performers
芥川 龍之介
Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (1892.3.1-1927.7.24)
鼻 J-Eng-Russian, 3x audio
羅生門 J modern - J pre-war - 2x English - Polish - Russian, 7x audio
藪の中 J no furigana - J furigana - Russian - Polish - English, (small cells), 5x audio

All the stories are to be found in Murray, Giles - Breaking into Japanese literature, too. With detailed explanations.
懐かしいなぁ
http://www.mediafire.com/?too4w37t616yssu
http://www.mediafire.com/?quc7fky421pxbal
http://www.mediafire.com/?sed1yey5j49f9lf

夏目漱石 夢十夜 Ten Nights of Dreams by NATSUME Sôseki
audio 4x, parallel Japanese-English, Japanese vertical
(Nights 1, 3, 5, 7 commented in Murray, Giles - Breaking into Japanese literature, too)
http://www.mediafire.com/?iwohqun70rbt11u
http://www.mediafire.com/?e2fr4kmlrnltbm6
http://www.mediafire.com/?w48a318tvgs5y1k

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry あのときの王子くん Le petit prince

Text: Japanese - spaced hiragana - French with links to two audio versions.
The text is in 3 columns, there is a column with spaced hiragana in
the middle, it should make it easier to read the original Japanese
text that it written with hardly any kanji (because it is an edition
for children who don't know many kanji) and that makes it more
difficult to read for the beginner in Japanese. The conversion to
spaced hiragana was done automatically so there are some mistakes
there, but it is nonetheless useful for the beginner.

There is a parallel J-English text there too, prepared by Sheetz.

Audio:
Two cleaned versions:
http://www.mediafire.com/?f1tj6fobra2c53m
http://www.mediafire.com/?w9drwdrxbs9nr44
http://www.mediafire.com/?74jtld9fne6d35w

There is another recording here:
http://o-musbee.jp/sound/ojikun01.mp3
http://o-musbee.jp/sound/ojikun02.mp3
http://o-musbee.jp/sound/ojikun03.mp3

There is another recording with a different title 星の王子さま
(professional, different translation, I have no etext), you can get
the recording at VeryCD.com.

Hiragana Times 2007 07-12, audio, line-by-line playlists, Japanese only, wav
http://www.mediafire.com/?a0n4ap411wbpfyy
http://www.mediafire.com/?jr2fz389nxm30wq
http://www.mediafire.com/?tc4vynw2wt9b4ig
http://www.mediafire.com/?5i7qs3ce5mbxnvq

2008 1, 5, 6
http://www.mediafire.com/?7nilfzd4zeoz56b
http://www.mediafire.com/?f71yi8p0figfk1y

2008 7-12
http://www.mediafire.com/?ddi62eqzlk59gmm
http://www.mediafire.com/?0zrlrtq8oxjisri
http://www.mediafire.com/?lpzgl83ks3q5k2n

2009 6x 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12
http://www.mediafire.com/?bs749d1bab9xfdb
http://www.mediafire.com/?61xhhna72d4oas8
http://www.mediafire.com/?v9g55xo045uo7h6

2010 1-3
http://www.mediafire.com/?duhuztydn9fv4v8
http://www.mediafire.com/?aorb0vb0ujy1s31

The parallel texts (kanji-spaced hiragana-English + playlist to line-by-line audio)
http://www.mediafire.com/?fiecylunlrq5k8f

Wow, thank you so very much for the HT stuff!!

圍城》/《围城》 錢鈡書/钱钟书 Fortress Besieged Qian, Zhongshu
汉英对照 Chinese-English (scan) pdf
http://ishare.iask.sina.com.cn/f/12358817.html
http://ishare.iask.sina.com.cn/f/9373718.html
Chinese audio:
http://www.pingshu8.com/MusicList/mmc_203_368_1.Htm
http://www.verycd.com/topics/46647/
http://iask.sina.com.cn/u/1173554805/ish?folderid=56094
Chinese text
http://ishare.iask.sina.com.cn/f/6227013.html
http://www.mwjx.com/other/book/story/top.../index.htm
English text
http://www.china-fun.net/book/work/modern/weicheng/

book2 Japanese and Chinese - English
http://www.mediafire.com/?aaamc1at21y4jie
there are 26 languages in the pack

line-by-line audio here:
http://www.goethe-verlag.com/book2/EN/index.htm
You can get an idea how a language looks and sounds and learn some basic vocab and sentences (about 2000).

thanks a lot! all these ressources are awesome

deign Wrote:thanks a lot! all these ressources are awesome

agreed!

36 Stratagems (for children) Traditional Chinese, Taiwan
audio + text + English (Link 12 is dead, audio 35 damaged), downloadable.
http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/biweekly/36story/index.htm

Could you reup this The Bible: line-by-line Japanese-English and Korean-English ?
And the text for this Jehovah's Witnesses audiobooks + matching parallel texts: ?

Jehovah's Witnesses' stuff

http://www.mediafire.com/?e3esx7x80bolp1w

Korean
Recorded:
jw-bible-ka.7z The Bible Korean-English
What Does the Bible Really Teach Korean-English.doc


Japanese
Recorded:
jw-bible-ja.7z The Bible Japanese-English
My Book of Bible Stories Japanese-English.doc
Learn From the Great Teacher Japanese-English.doc
The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived Japanese-English.doc
The Secret of Family Happiness Japanese-English.doc
What Does the Bible Really Teach Japanese-English.doc
Draw Close to Jehovah Japanese-English.doc

No audio:
Is This Life All There Is 1974 Japanese-English.doc
Life—How Did It Get Here By Evolution or by Creation Japanese-English.doc
Listening to the Great Teacher Japanese-English no audio.doc
Mankind's Search for God Japanese-English.doc
You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth Japanese-English.doc
Your Youth—Getting the Best out of It Japanese-English.doc


:: Files: 15 (50,4 MB)

The audio is to be found here:
http://www.jw.org/index.html?option=QrYQZRQVNlBBX

TV news
FNN, JNN, NNN video clips + etexts
3 hours of listening
http://www.mediafire.com/?bduze8jmmxhz7d0
http://www.mediafire.com/?35o12pcogdg3fof
http://www.mediafire.com/?1yrnf6sl96xbjmo

coscom 日本の　出来事 (News of Japan)

coscom Nihon no dekigoto 2009-2010.7z
http://www.mediafire.com/?5ceu69nuno3zq11
Audio + parallel texts: kanji - spaced hiragana
Good for beginners, easy and slow.
1 hour 12 minutes

Source:
http://www.coscom.co.jp/newsweather/news/index-j.html

Thank you and how can I download audio from here?
http://gloss.dliflc.edu/products/gloss/j...ource.html

arnaldosfjunior Wrote:Thank you and how can I download audio from here?
http://gloss.dliflc.edu/products/gloss/j...ource.html

gloss, parallel Japanese-English + links to audio files, audio files.
http://www.mediafire.com/?y5pqhz3han7mtkc

小林 多喜二 - 蟹工船 （こばやし たきじ - かにこうせん）
Kobayasi Takiji - The Factory Ship
audio + parallel Japanese-English texts. The reader is very good.
Kobayasi Takiji - kanikousen 3h53min, kotoba Watanabe

http://www.mediafire.com/?2i18qu0i7dzc1oo

Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea (Mandarin Chinese)
Parallel texts prepared by Miss China - an educated native speaker of Mandarin, mailand China.
The Chinese text was carefully checked against the Mandarin audio, included.
http://www.mediafire.com/?equb9pchd6o3n56