buonaparte Wrote:I'm not buonaparte, I'm aYa. Buonaparte died last November.

@aYa
I'm sorry to learn of Buonaparte passing away.... you have my deepest sympathy. This thread is the main reason that I have signed-up on this site.

If you are keen about the Haruki's mp3 files, you're welcome to PM me anytime.


@psychopatate
Sorry for the late reply. I'm afraid to say... the Haruki mp3 file was meant for Bounaparte. If you have other request, I might be able to accommodate it provided I have the files, so feel free to PM me.

OJAD－Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
http://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ojad/

Sorted by
parts of speech: 品詞別
and textbooks: 教科書別
You can choose a fe/male voice to hear the forms.

Verb conjugation tables, pitch accent marked:
http://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ojad/kouzokugo
http://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ojad/kouzokugo/index

aYa

I'm deeply sorry to hear about it. May he rest in peace.

Thank you, eslang

Thank you aYa for continuing.


Found these :
J.R.R Tolkien- The Lord of the Rings - the Hobbit
C.S Lewis- The Chronicles of Narnia
Dan Brown- the Da Vinci Code - Angels and Demons
(Removed by Admin gaiaslastlaugh - forum rules prohibit linking directly to copyrighted content)


Embarrassing red line... :|
Sorry, I lurk around a lot and I've seen stuff so I got confused.

Just a hint.

Famous Japanese Tales for Children
Japanese (all text is in hiragana)

Issues 1-5/15
And another 5 issues
Linked to a blog post.

Aesop’s Fables イソップ童話
http://users.bestweb.net/~siom/martian_m...ukumusume/
366 mini texts, almost all recorded, very easy, short sentences,
142 are translated into English
Translation　into English by ちいさな翻訳屋さん http://www.honyaku.pro.nu/

7z.001 etc are split files, use 7zip to unpack (it's free)
http://www.7-zip.org/

Parallel texts, vertical columns:
kanji-spaced kana-(broken)English, if available
Two .doc files with hyperlinks to offline audio.
J 00 Aesop’s Fables 01-06.doc (182 texts, 40 no English, 15 no spaced kana)
J 00 Aesop’s Fables 07-12.doc (no English)
+ audio in Japanese
Aesop’s Fables\01-12 354files 8h13min.m3u
No audio:
09 September 27-30
10 October 01-06 and 15-21

Source:
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/pc/aesop/index.html

BONUS
312 Japanese-English Aesop’s Fables (no longer online):
http://mastarpj.nict.go.jp/~mutiyama/ali...aesopj.txt
The files are here:
http://users.bestweb.net/~siom/martian_m...d%20J-E.7z
NO JAPANESE AUDIO
Who they are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop%27s_Fables
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fyler_Townsend
http://www.aesops-fables.com/

aYa

Below:
Parallel texts kanji-spaced kana-English
+ links to off line audio.
http://users.bestweb.net/~siom/martian_m...ukumusume/

hukumusume Short stories of Edo
hukumusume Short stories of Edo J-E.doc
20files 30min.m3u

hukumusume - Classical stories of the world
hukumusume - Classical stories of the world (kanji-kana-English.doc
26files 2h23min.m3u
Updated

hukumusume Japanese classical stories
hukumusume Japanese classical stories J-E.doc
44files 2h49min.m3u

aYa

Hello,
Im seriously considering going with L-R method, just like I felt that learning kanji by writing them xxx times is kinda stupid, I have the same feeling after many hours spent in Anki. I feel that what Im doing now isnt the best way to go about language learning.

I have a question about the materials, are there polish-japanese versions of those available(since buonaparte is polish)?

Hello Cookie Monster,

I've no idea what the best method of learning languages is, everybody must decide for themself.

L-R isn't about learning kanji, it's about learning languages on your own - that means acquiring four skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) and four language subsystems (pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and discourse), as a whole system, through personally relevent meaningful exposure to recorded books plus parallel (e)texts: L2-L1.
It can be used to learn Japanese as well.
http://users.bestweb.net/~siom/martian_m...c346179174

Buonaparte was Polish and she did use Polish translations of some Japanese books, but she didn't polish the materials, you'd have to scan the books and make parallel e-texts.

After we decided to make some L-R materials for publico bono, we chose (broken)English, for obvious reasons.

I wish you the best of Polish, or was it Japanese?
Bye, take care,
smile at yourself first thing in the morning.

aYa

English-Chinese novels and books.
http://users.bestweb.net/~siom/martian_m...n/Chinese/

buonaparte, I have most chinesepod lessons in a parallel format, with links to their audiofiles.
jpg preview: http://s9.postimg.org/78ay8glvz/Immagine.jpg
html+css: http://www.mediafire.com/download/5la9a29yp3afly1/cp.7z

Newbie: 30m
Elementary: 2h45m
Intermediate: 6h43m
Upper-Intermediate: 10h49m
Advanced: (work in progress)

I can upload them somewhere once I'm done going through them, if you need them.

edit: traditional chinese only

gio_gogo,
thanks for the parallel texts.
As to the audio - Number 1721 is the last lesson buonaparte has in her archives, including line-by-line, vocabulary, expansion and cleaned dialogues.

Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea 老人与海
http://users.bestweb.net/~siom/martian_m...n/Chinese/
Ch 00 Heminway - The Old Man and the Sea audio+parallelTexts.7z
Professional audio in Mandarin + parallel hanzi-pinyin-English e-text carefully checked against the audio by an educated speaker of Mandarin, mainland China. The parallel text and pinyin by the same person.
Reupload - the old link is dead.
More Chinese stuff - see page one of this thread.

I've always wondered if the stuff posted here is of any use to anyone, the majority of members here seem to be children or very young poeple interested in manga and dorama.

buonaparte Wrote:I've always wondered if the stuff posted here is of any use to anyone, the majority of members here seem to be children or very young poeple interested in manga and dorama.

Nawet jeżeli Pańskie linki są warte tylko dla mniejszości to mają one niezwykłą wartość.

Pełen wdzięczności,
Inny Jan

Inny Jan,
thank you for the nice words, but I didn't expect people to say thank you here, it would only litter the thread. What I really meant is what people ACTUALLY do with the downloaded material. Delete it or forget about it most probably. The Internet is impersonal, you never know what happens with what you've done.
And it takes time, damn it, even the simple act of uploading, not to mention preparing the materials. No wonder the Admin wanted to give up some time ago, I was secretly hoping he would close the forum.

Of course I can speak only for myself, but these days I listen regularly to 「かえるくん、東京を救う」 and 「羊男のクリスマス」. For later listening, I keep 「美しい村」. I tried 「ジーキル博士とハイド氏の怪事件」 in the past but somehow this piece didn't appeal to me.

It's pure coincidence but I got my copy of articles by CosCom before you posted them here. Otherwise, I would've gotten them from you.

(Ah, I thought I'd better let you know that too - I don't listen to things that are to difficult for me to understand.)

buonaparte Wrote:I was secretly hoping he would close the forum.

You can't expect others to change in life, but you can always change to make it easier for yourself. If the forum is in a state in which you would secretly hope it would close down, why not simply refrain from visiting? It will still exist but you won't have to think about it any longer, so it may as well no longer exist in your head.

Speaking from personal experience, this is what I've done with various places in the past and whatever stress or dissatisfaction their presence caused, dissipated. Are these places still active today? I don't know, but whatever persists or no longer exists isn't anything I ever have to think about anymore.

People are rarely thankful for the work you put into something on the internet. Sure, it's nice to be appreciated but, you know...


That said, the content and links provided by bounaparte and yourself, are certainly astounding, and it would be a great loss for newer members of the forum who do not have your website bookmarked, if this thread where to close down, along with the greater forum, one day.

uisukii,
you're perfectly right.
I don't expect anybody to be thankful, it doesn't matter. What really bothers me is the fact that I don't know whether what I'm doing here is not in vain or not.

16 pages on and still attracting interest. But in all seriously, I understand how you feel. Though it wouldn't really make things on your side any different, I would be willing to almost guarantee that if you were to remove your user account and all of the content (including this thread) that someone would, within 24 hours, post up a new thread with links to the page where all of the content is available.


Though the question of whether or not efforts are done in vain is perhaps an issue which may never really be solved. The lack of follow-up on the internet is jarring at times. It's all traffic numbers, IP addresses and pseudonymous users, without being too existential about it.

buonaparte Wrote:I don't expect anybody to be thankful, it doesn't matter. What really bothers me is the fact that I don't know whether what I'm doing here is not in vain or not.

You could make a thread: if you're a LR user, do you find "buonaparte's audio and text links" thread useful, post if yes. Granted there probably are a number of unregistered lurkers.

Should you happen to want to share something with me, please go to
http://uztranslations.net.ru, register (it’s free, you’ll have to activate your account) and send a PM to kuroneko. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Replay Media Catcher
You can use Replay Media Catcher to download video clips from
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/index.html?page=cat3
http://www.nhk.or.jp/school/
http://www.nhk.or.jp/kokokoza/sitemap.html

uisukii Wrote:Though it wouldn't really make things on your side any different, I would be willing to almost guarantee that if you were to remove your user account and all of the content (including this thread) that someone would, within 24 hours, post up a new thread with links to the page where all of the content is available.

A simple experiment to carry out. An easy prophecy to disprove.
All the stuff was off line for twenty-four hours. And nothing happened. Nobody noticed.
Even if I took it off line for a week or a month nobody would notice.
Were I to learn Japanese I'd find the materials useful. So, statistically, there should be at least one person who would think the same. So I leave everything here for that one statistical person. Some links are dead, but they died 'naturally' - everything dies anyway.

By the way, the hypothetical page you mention doesn’t exist.

I did notice it and thought that you've already decided in previous posts to take it off. Not only me, because actually someone wanted to dl H.Potter parallel text and wrote about dead links. I was about to upload it somewhere for them.

Cookie Monster,
I won't remove anything, unless somebody else does it. It might happen sooner rather than later if you mention Haaaarrrriiii pooottttaaaa openly.

I kept telling buonaparte (indeed she was buona) that she was naive and stupid, but she refused to listen to reason and always had the upper hand. She even bullied me into promising that I would upload new stuff for you.

I did notice. And I was sorry that I didn't download the site before. So, now that it is online again, I'll do it. I think this collection of stuff is really valuable. At least for me.

Look buonaparte I registered this account only for saying thank you.

I freaked out when I tried to reach your website today and I couldn't find anything.

So keep up the good work.

manshiro90 Wrote:Look buonaparte I registered this account only for saying thank you.

So you want me to do more work and you'll be enjoying yourslelf. Thank you very much.

There are only two ways to really say 39:
1. learn whatever language/s you're learning and
2. share something useful, the way gio_gogo above did.

Should you happen to want to share something with me, please go to
http://uztranslations.net.ru, register (it’s free, you’ll have to activate your account) and send a PM to kuroneko. Sorry for the inconvenience.