I have a small learn English website in China, and we are trying to
provide our surfers with English audio with transcripts. We want to
have a variety of different native speakers reading different kinds of
texts. They could be related to entertainment, business, learning
English, and Chinese related issues. They should be 2-10 minutes
long. I don't have a big budget, so I need cooperation with the
content providers, and I need copyright permission to repost,
translate, and use their material. If you could first tell me what
kind of research you think would be appropriate for this and what
sources would be available, ask me for clarification, and then do the
final research. Thanks for taking the time, and I will give a good
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Clarification of Question by
thelmita-ga
on
08 Jun 2004 17:49 PDT
I don't know if the price is right, I will consider adding money as a
tip if a researher believes that it requires more time.
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Request for Question Clarification by
tutuzdad-ga
on
08 Jun 2004 18:26 PDT
Here is the entire English language Bible in both text and audio. It
consists of thousands and thousands of words and would make for some
extensive learning of the language. I would guess conservatively that
this source is an example of at least 85-90% of the English language
used in some form. It probably wouldn't be too hard to get permission
to reprint it either.
NIV AUDIO BIBLE
http://www.audio-bible.com/niv/
Does this work for you?
Regards;
tutuzdad-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
czh-ga
on
08 Jun 2004 20:33 PDT
Hello thelmita-ga,
You asked for my approach to conducting this research. I first tried
looking for audio files with AltaVista and got a few interesting
results. Next, I searched with Google for learning English audio files
and got a collection of websites that offer audio resources. I suggest
that you take a look at these and tell me if I?m on the right track. I
look forward to your clarification.
~ czh ~
http://www.altavista.com/audio/default
Searched for: learn English
These links appeared in the results
http://www.traditionalthailand.com/englishstudent1.htm
USE THE INTERNET AS YOUR LANGUAGE LAB
http://www.goodfriend.com/b5/learn_english_through_the_bible_index.htm
Learning English Through the Bible
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://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=learn+english+sample+audio+files
Searched for: learn english sample audio files
The following links appeared in the results
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/listening.html#Other
Listening for English Language Learners
http://gakusyu.ne.jp/linksyu/english.htm
Links for learning English
http://www.eli.ufl.edu/currentstudent/resources/links.htm
ESL Listening Links
http://www.clet.ait.ac.th/sall.htm
Online Listening Resources
http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/index.html
Great American Speeches
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Clarification of Question by
thelmita-ga
on
10 Jun 2004 03:03 PDT
Firstly, other English learning websites would be unwilling to lend me
their materials, or at least hesitant as they would be our
competitors, like Coca-Cola trying to borrow something from Pepsi's
website. Secondly it is politically incorrect to use the bible as a
reference for students learning English. So these two types of audio
would be unnaceptable. Regular radio shows, with short content, news
broadcasts, any authentic language source would be ok, so long as it's
not too long and has a transcript to accompany it.
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Clarification of Question by
thelmita-ga
on
11 Jun 2004 08:55 PDT
I reworded the question to make it clearer.
Also a few examples that are similare to what I want
www.loc.gov The library of Congress has many copyright free
historical documents with transcripts and high quality audio
downloads.
Also, NPR, BBC, and VOA, have some audio with transcripts although the
copyright difficulties would have to be resolved.
Currently we have an English language learning website in China. We
are trying to provide our web viewers audio in English of a wide
variety of topics; entertainment, issues concerning China, business,
and English language learning. The audio must have a transcript, and
we must secure copyright permission to use it on our website. This
audio and transcript must not come from another learn English website.
It also must not contain inappropriate language, or content which
might offend Chinese sensibilities. We are trying to find at least 50
sources of such content, and the contact information for the
department concerning copyrights. Feel free to ask for clarification
before answering this question.
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