You might look for this as well:
芙蓉镇 by 古华

buonaparte Wrote:You might look for this as well:
芙蓉镇 by 古华

In Chinese, and in English. English isn't complete, you can probably view 90% of the text. Use google books downloader to compile a PDF of the available pages, then ask someone else to do the same, put the two together and you should probably have the full book.

Btw the easiest way to find chinese texts is google: author title TXT. Try a few links and you'll probably find it - Chinese are much better at making ebooks than Japanese.

Places like tdtxt.cn have loads of novels for download.

buonaparte Wrote:What about 水浒传 by 宋怀强? (an e-text in Mandarin and in English)

Mandarin text, and for the English you should google 'Four Great Chinese Classics (Ebook)'.

Thanks a lot.

I'm looking for Swedish etexts of the following books:

Bulgakov, Michail - Mästaren och Margarita
Orwell, George - Djurfarmen
Hosseini, Khaled - Flyga drake
Hosseini, Khaled - Tusen Strålande Solar
Larsson, Stieg - Män som hatar kvinnor
Larsson, Stieg - Luftslottet som sprängdes
Larsson, Stieg - Flickan som lekte med elden
Proust, Marcel - På spaning ... (4) Sodom och Gomorra
Tjechov, Anton - Damen Med Hunden8
Tjechov, Anton - Stäppen Och Andra Noveller
Alexander Solzjenitsyn - Den Första Kretsen
Arto Paasilinna - Snablar
Arto Paasilinna - Världens Bästa By
Coben, Harlan - Borta för alltid
Coben, Harlan - Ett enda ögonblick
Coben, Harlan - Ingen andra chans
Eco, Umberto - Focaults Pendel
Hemingway - Klockan klämtar för dig
Brown, Dan - da Vincikoden
Koontz, Dean - Nar manen skiner

and books by Astrid Lindgren.

Here's why I make parallel texts and post all the links:

TAC 2011, Team KEN: M. Medialis - RU JP
(LR):
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/for...PN=1&TPN=2

Quote:Rediscovering LR

And at last I can use my newly attained freedom to dive into all my LR materials. -Discovering the stories of Kenji Miyazawa and O. Henry (among many others). LR could as well be an abbreviation of "Literature Reading" or "Love to Read": Good native actors, a good translation and the thrill of a great story => language learning euphoria!
A new favourite is Miyazawa's story "The Acorns and the Wildcat", together with the fantastic dramatization at fantajikan: Pure happiness:
http://fantajikan.tea-nifty.com/blog/200..._76ca.html

LR stands for 'Listening-Reading' described here:
http://learnlangs.com/Listening-Reading_...ssages.htm

Here's 源氏物語, Genji monogatari by 紫式部 Murasaki Shikibu
(The Tale of Genj by Murasaki Shikibu)

What it is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genji_monogatari

Texts:
http://www.sainet.or.jp/~eshibuya/hp.html
http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Genji/00000001.htm

buonaparte Wrote:Brown, Dan - da Vincikoden
Koontz, Dean - Nar manen skiner

It might be easier to find da Vinci-koden and När månen skiner, though (not trying to be snarky, just trying to be helpful).

Det kanske skulle vara lättare att hitta da Vinci-koden och När månen skiner, dock (jag vill inte verka dryg, försöker bara hjälpa till).

(since you seem to like doing parallel reading )

walruz,
thanks a lot.
I have no idea about Swedish, just copied a list of some audiobooks.
I would be happy, if you actually found a text two. It would be very helpful.
The most important ones being:
Bulgakov, Michail - Mästaren och Margarita
Orwell, George - Djurfarmen

By the way, the parallel texts are not just for me - it is all done for publico bono.
Otherwise I wouldn't be posting anything here. It is a bother, in fact, takes time.

cb4960 Wrote:

nest0r Wrote:Request cancelled! It's all Taken Care Of™. Though someone should still post something eventually just in case.

In the interest of reducing load on the JPod101 servers, I’ve uploaded all of the JDIC Audio Files.

Number of files: 128,275
Required disk space: 1.68 GB
Format: kana - kanji.mp3
Example: しんがい - 侵害.mp3

Download part 1 via Mediafile
Download part 2 via Mediafile
Download part 3 via Mediafile
Download part 4 via Mediafile
Download part 5 via Mediafile
Download part 6 via Mediafile
Download part 7 via Mediafile
Download part 8 via Mediafile
Download part 9 via Mediafile

or

Download via MegaUpload (1 big file, premium users only)

For Anki Users:
"[sound:%(text:Reading)s - %(text:Expression)s.mp3]" can be placed into the answers field to play the sound file. Since the filenames are Japanese, this will only work with the Custom Media Player 2 plugin. Also, the readings must not have furigana.

I didn't like 128,275 .mp3 files sitting in my Anki folder so I wrote a program that will extract only the needed files from the big zip file.

Download the JDIC Audio Extraction Tool via MediaFile (source code is included)

To use:
1) From Anki, export your words deck as facts only to a .txt file.
2) Open JDIC Audio Extractor, fill in all of the fields, click OK.
You can edit in.txt if you don't want to manually fill in the fields each time.

I also didn't like how mplayer (the media player included with Anki) often times doesn’t play small files to completion. So I wrote a media player that DOES play small files to completion (well, actually I just modified the "contest" example program that comes with the Bass audio library).

Download bassplayer via MediaFile (requires Windows; source code is included)

Place bassplayer.exe and bass.dll in the Anki install folder (you should see mplayer.exe there). Just edit the Custom Media Player 2 plugin to use bassplayer instead of mplayer.

I downloaded all the rar packs, but when I gets to within maybe 90% of the first file, and it just reports that the output file (somethingsomething.zip) isn't a valid file, and shuts down. Anyone know what the problem might be? (oh, and I've re-downloaded the first rar file in case that might be the problem, still doesn't work)

Excuse me the link to part 3 has expired
can you please fix it? (T T)?
danke.

buonaparte Wrote:www.voiceblog.jp/nippon/
Texts:
http://www.voiceblog.jp/nippon/
There seems to be no audio there any longer.
Here it is:
http://ifile.it/tzjynh3
http://ifile.it/si0eqa9
http://ifile.it/cr065sw

Hey

How do you create parallel texts from 2 texts in 2 different languages?

@buonaparte Im also curious about the LR method and/or parallel text method. I clicked through your links but wasnt able to find much in the way of an explanation. please enlighten me.

thx.

dusmar84 Wrote:@buonaparte Im also curious about the LR method and/or parallel text method. I clicked through your links but wasnt able to find much in the way of an explanation. please enlighten me.

thx.

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid124894

Quote:I downloaded all the rar packs, but when I gets to within maybe 90% of the first file, and it just reports that the output file (somethingsomething.zip) isn't a valid file, and shuts down. Anyone know what the problem might be? (oh, and I've re-downloaded the first rar file in case that might be the problem, still doesn't work)

Select all 9 files, then extract. These are just parts of one large zip file.

Sorry, I've been extremely busy for some time now. I might re-upload everything later.

Listening-Reading (L-R)
L-R: the most important passages
http://learnlangs.com/Listening-Reading_...ssages.htm
L-R roundup thread
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/for...21098&PN=1


Creating prallel novels:
There are tools to do it: ABBY Aligner, hunalign, etc.
They don't work very well for Japanese or Chinese. You have to do it manually.

How to create parallel texts for language learning – Part 1
http://languagefixation.wordpress.com/20...ng-part-1/

How to create parallel texts for language learning, part 2
http://languagefixation.wordpress.com/20...ng-part-2/

I uploaded or reuploaded some stuff that used to be available online for free but the sites have disappeared.

All the audio posted below is of good professional quality.

夏目 漱石 Natsume Sōseki
坊っちゃん Botchan
Natume Souseki - Bottyan
audio
http://ifile.it/si3mo2d
parallel text
http://mastarpj.nict.go.jp/~mutiyama/ali...-pages.htm


夏目 漱石 Natsume Sōseki
道草 Michi Kusa Grass on the Wayside
Natume Souseki - Mitikusa
Audio
http://ifile.it/ifdnapz
http://ifile.it/wntru97
http://ifile.it/yp2ljwo
http://ifile.it/mz9hw6o
http://ifile.it/maoj6qk
texts Jap and English(pdf + doc)
http://ifile.it/fqbjay3


太宰 治 Dazai Osamu
斜陽 Shayō The Setting Sun
Dazai Osamu Syayou
audio + J and Eng texts (not parallel)
http://ifile.it/4otqklm
http://ifile.it/39lczaj
http://ifile.it/kvepjha


Grammar Bank
http://ifile.it/tw5kcfb

Essential Japanese Verbs
http://ifile.it/orn3h1d
http://ifile.it/9tr1h3z
http://ifile.it/w9npk75
http://ifile.it/ngtszup
http://ifile.it/h9jxuso
doc - parallel with links to palylists
http://ifile.it/harguil

A Request

Hi buonaparte, do you have a copy of the links to playlist doc for "Japanese@Once"?

I have them for Kanji Odyssey 2001 and Essential Japanese Verbs (thanks to you) and would like to round up my collection with the Japanese@Once file.

These links for playlists docs are really very useful study aids.

Many thanks,

Tom

tomhogers,
I might ask somebody to do it, if I had "Japanese@Once". I've just checked and I don't have it.

Japanese@Once e-book (2000 version)

http://www.4shared.com/file/bYbLHeHa/JO_online.html

Tom

tomhogers Wrote:Japanese@Once e-book (2000 version)

http://www.4shared.com/file/bYbLHeHa/JO_online.html

Tom

Now I understand why I don't have it. It is romaji only. I usually delete such stuff.
I would have to manually type in kanji and hiragana, and the book does not seem to be worth it.


If you need some basic grammar with audio, use
Visualizing Japanese Grammar
250 Essential Japanese Verbs
GrammarBank

I posted everything.


If you don't mind textbooks, there are some written in knaji and hiragana with explanations in English.
Minna no nihongo
Shin Nihongo no Kiso
Assimil
The above have computerized versions where everything is recorded.

There are some more popular textbooks for beginners:
Genki
Japanese for Today
Japanese for Everyone

You might supplement them with some podcasts, JapanesePod101 lessons, parallel texts with line-by-line audio are floating around the net.
For vocabulary only, you might use Japanese Core Sentences 6000. Parallel kanji-spaced kana-English text with line-by-line audio is floating around the net, too. Or you might use Anki decks (I don't use them, I've never used SRS).

If you then need something more advanced and not boring, you might use Hiragana Times, it is bilingual, Japanese-English, some articles are recorded.

Thanks Buonaparte.

I mentioned on an earlier request posting (in this thread but not answered) that this version of J@O is in roumaji but that a newer kana version is available (just fishing around and waiting for someone to take the bait and maybe upload a link).

Even so, the request is not for my personal use but for that of Japanese language newbies being able to use J@O's very good situational examples and grammar notes etc. without knowing any kana and kanji (yet).

I have all the material you mention but I couldn't find the thread for the audio for 250 Essential Japanes Verbs, could you repost it please.

Once again, many thanks.

Tom

I didn't notice you said it was in romaji, sorry. If you find a kanji-kana version, I might make it parallel and create playlists.

As to 250 verbs, I've already posted it. Here are the links again.

Essential Japanese Verbs
http://ifile.it/orn3h1d
http://ifile.it/9tr1h3z
http://ifile.it/w9npk75
http://ifile.it/ngtszup
http://ifile.it/h9jxuso
doc - parallel with links to palylists
http://ifile.it/harguil

http://www.mediafire.com/?2u5gu5hcj3tkixb
Dahl - The Witches 女巫-罗尔德·达尔.有声书.佚名
It is a parallel Mandarin Chinese (hanzi) - Mandarin (pinyin) - English text with audio in Chinese

Some info by the creator of the parallel texts (An educated Mandarin native speaker):


Besides what I mentioned in the last mail about why I chose The Witches to start with, I had thought the audio was not bad until I reached track 6 and the rest. I was almost about to give up on it, after thinking a bit of the whole process, I decided to finish it.

Audiobook market is still on the developing stage in China. Most of the Chinese mainland audiobooks you got online are volunteers' contributions either by recording from radio broadcast or uploading the bits they bought for their own little kids. Some of the uploaders intentionally degrade the audio kbps to shrink the uploading bulk. That's not good for language learning. But for native listeners, it is OK.


The possible mistakes are not many nor serious, that I can assure you.

It is helpful to have a before-hand knowledge of how a certain tones change in actual speech.
Here is a bilingual Chinese-English webpage that explains such natural phonetic changes. As a rule, this kind of changes are not noted in pinyin dubbing, the characters in question would be noted as what they are as characters themselves. I followed this rule.

eyeonchinese.com/article.php?tt_id=61 Add three "w"s.


PS by buonaparte
Miss China (the creator) preferred to stay anonymous.
The Chinese person chose the book herslelf, it was not my choice.
If you notice any mistakes or have any questions, drop a line here, I will email it to Miss China.

sweet more resources

Japanese Core Sentences 6000 sentences + vocabulary
http://ifile.it/aub2694
http://ifile.it/y698n3k
http://ifile.it/qhj5u6p
Audio + some docs or htm files with direct links to audiofiles and some playlists.
It is for people who don't like SRS, but prefer to see and hear everything quickly without having to click all the time.