LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 003


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This collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource at LibriVox. The LibriVox Language Learning Collections contain readings from various language learning books, grammars, primers, phrasebooks, dictionaries, readers and even other works which contain information on various languages, recount experiences of language learning and encountering new languages or provide guides for correct pronunciation, writing or discourse in a language. These works could describe English or any other language whatsoever, from Latin to Sumerian, Chinese to Wampanoag, Esperanto to Swahili (etc.).

This volume includes 'Abdu’l-Bahá's talk "On the Value of an International Language"; the first section of L.L. Zamenhof's "First Book" (Unua Libro), explaining his great invention—the International Language, i.e. Esperanto; the third Lesson of Barrs' "Beginning Latin"; Gustave Chouquet's "Easy Conversations in French" (11 - 14); Lessons 21 - 25 from "Greek Lessons" by W.H. Morris; Introduction from "Hand-Book of Volapük" by Charles E. Sprague; Leccion Tercera, from "New First Spanish Book", by James H. Worman; Lessons 11 - 15 from "Esperanto in Twenty Lessons" by Caroline Stearns Griffin; Lessons 26 - 30 from "A Practical Arabic Course" by E. Nématallah & E. Chevalley; two sections from the "Student's Greek Grammar" by Georg Curtius; the Preface from "A Grammar of the Persian Language" by the great linguist, Sir William Jones (1746 - 1794); the Preface from "Arabic Syntax chiefly selected from the Hidayut-oon-Nuhvi" by Henry Brown Beresford (d. 1869), which is based on the famous Hidāyatu'n-Nahw by Ibn al-Hājib (1174 – 1249 CE); Chapters 3 - 8 from "Slips of Speech" by John H. Bechtel and, lastly, The Alphabet/Classifications of Sounds from "New Latin Grammar" by Charles E. Bennet. (5 hr 30 min)

Chapters

Abdul-Baha on the Value of a Universal Language 11:32 Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
An Attempt towards an International Language: Preface and Part I: Introduction 18:52 Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Beginning Latin: Lesson 3 6:46 Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Easy Conversations in French 1-14 40:12 Read by Kalynda
Greek Lessons: 21 - 25 12:56 Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Introduction from Hand-Book of Volapük 15:35 Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Leccion Tercera, from New First Spanish Book 10:13 Read by MikelMon
Lessons 11 - 15 from Esperanto in Twenty Lessons 32:25 Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Lessons 26 - 30 from A Practical Arabic Course 41:50 Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Of the Greek alphabet from Elucidations of the Student's Greek Grammar 41:50 Read by Marilianus
Preface from A Grammar of the Persian Language 30:19 Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Preface from Arabic Syntax chiefly selected from the Hidayut-oon-Nuhvi 5:59 Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Pronunciation of the vowels and diphthongs from Elucidations of the Student's G… 23:30 Read by Marilianus
Slips of Speech: Chapter 03 9:02 Read by Mike Harris
Slips of Speech: Chapter 04 8:32 Read by Mike Harris
Slips of Speech: Chapter 05 19:21 Read by Mike Harris
Slips of Speech: Chapter 06 12:44 Read by Mike Harris
Slips of Speech: Chapter 07 8:01 Read by ashleighjane
Slips of Speech: Chapter 08 7:51 Read by ashleighjane
The Alphabet/Classifications of Sounds from New Latin Grammar 4:47 Read by Chris Caron