Listening-Reading parallel texts with audio - Post them here - Reviewing the Kanji

Blahah Member

From: Cambridge, UK Registered: 2008-07-15 Posts: 715 Website

There's been a bit of chatter about the L-R method here recently. This thread is a place to collect resources for the method. Ideally, post a link to a zipped collection with the audio and a parallel English/Japanese text.

I'll kick it off with this mediafire folder where I'll put all the packs I make.

I'll update this contents list as I add more:

Available packs:
- Kokoro Part 1 (of 3) (Natsume Souseki) with audio and parallel text.

Last edited by Blahah (2010 July 09, 8:56 am)

travis Member

Registered: 2008-08-11 Posts: 178

There's a wiki page here (and a thread). Some of the are parallel texts.

Blahah Member

From: Cambridge, UK Registered: 2008-07-15 Posts: 715 Website

Thanks travis, but those are audiobooks, some of which have accompanying texts, and some occasional replies with parallel stuff. This thread is specifically for collecting parallel texts with accompanying, unabridged audio. Some of the materials will probably be sourced from that thread/wiki article, but the produce isn't the same.

Last edited by Blahah (2010 July 09, 10:17 am)

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sheetz Member

Registered: 2007-05-29 Posts: 213

Here's what I put in the other thread, along with a couple more:

Alice in Wonderland
http://rapidshare.com/files/372580163/Alice.rar.html
Online text: http://mastarpj.nict.go.jp/~mutiyama/al … lice-0.htm

銀河鉄道の夜
http://rapidshare.com/files/405788319/MilkyWay.rar

坊ちゃん
Text: http://mastarpj.nict.go.jp/~mutiyama/al … otchan.alm
Audio: http://www.ohanashipod.jp/podcast/watanabe/cat16/cat67/

Black Peter (Sherlock Holmes)
Text: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcqrb8ft_10d6c7ttdz
Audio: http://www.voiceblog.jp/kuni-p-221b/car4.html

Scandal in Bohemia (Sherlock Holmes)
Text: http://rapidshare.com/files/72119824/Bohemia.doc.html
Audio: http://kuni-p.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/ca … index.html

Le Petit Prince
http://rapidshare.com/files/405992047/P … e.rar.html

Edit: Found a couple more Sherlock Holmes stories

Six Napoleons
Text: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcqrb8ft_6hhmdr2gf
Audio: http://kuni-p.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/ca … index.html

Stockbroker's Clerk
Text: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcqrb8ft_12dhnv4nds
Audio: http://kuni-p.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/ca … index.html

Bauddha.net has a few other parallel texts but I don't find the way they are formatted to be as useful for L-R.

Last edited by sheetz (2010 July 19, 5:21 pm)

Blahah Member

From: Cambridge, UK Registered: 2008-07-15 Posts: 715 Website

Nice one sheetz. Am I correct in thinking you make yours with interlaced English and Japanese? Mine are opposite text (Japanese in left column, English in right) with the beginning of each paragraph aligned.

sheetz Member

Registered: 2007-05-29 Posts: 213

銀河鉄道の夜, Scandal in Bohemia, and Petit Prince are in parallel. Nowadays, I've begun making them interlaced as I prefer it for L-R.

Last edited by sheetz (2010 July 09, 3:15 pm)

Blahah Member

From: Cambridge, UK Registered: 2008-07-15 Posts: 715 Website

What's your interlacing method? Do you hard-return after each line, then use numbering and column-sorting in a spreadsheet to align them?

sheetz Member

Registered: 2007-05-29 Posts: 213

^You can do that, but when I tried it with Black Peter I still found it to be a pain to get the sentences lined up properly. In the end I gave up and just did it manually since it's a relatively short story. That's why that website with the interlaced texts is such a godsend.

Last edited by sheetz (2010 July 09, 4:13 pm)

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