LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 004

Author(s): Various

Genre(s): Language Learning

Narrators: Nicholas James Bridgewater, Cynthia Moyer, Kalynda, Claire Howell, Mishsmith, Leni, Martin Geeson, Matthew Knight, Moromis, Cori Samuel, Travis Hamon, Spiritualbeing

Number of Chapters: 20

Length: 7 hours and 38 minutes

Language: Multilingual

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 collection includes Beginning Latin: Lessons 4 to 5, Latin for Beginners 1 to 3, Elegantiæ Latinæ by Edward Valpy, Chapter 2 - Hercules, from Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles, Dialogues 1 to 5 from The English and French Interpreter, Lessons 16 to 20 from Esperanto in Twenty Lessons , First Lessons of Chinese (Introduction and Chapter One), Grammar of English Grammars, chapters 1 - 3, Greek Lessons: 26 to 30, The Languages of Britain, from Polychronicon, A Plea for Phonetic Spelling [or, The Necessity of Orthographic Reform], § 1. to § 4, Lessons 31 - 35 from A Practical Arabic Course, Zamenhof's An Attempt towards an International Language: Part I: First, Second and Third Problems, How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition (Preface) and a second version of The Aural System. (Introduction by Nicholas J. Bridgewater)