LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 001 by Various

LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 001 by Various

20 episodes

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 a treatise by Sir Arthur Cotton, author of an "Arabic Primer". His daughter, Lady Hope, on page 523 of her biography of her father, writes that he "had very strong theories on the subject of learning “Living Languages,” his opinion being that, as every child who comes into the world learns its mother tongue orally, and at first without grammar… so the learning of all modern languages would be very much facilitated by a similar process." Also included are the orientalist E.G. Browne's opinions on language learning (taken from the introduction to A Year Amongst the Persians), the first lesson from Dr. Emil Otto's "French Conversation-Grammar", a talk by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá on the need for a universal auxiliary language, Samuel Johnson's "A Grammar of the English Tongue", several sections from Henry Sweet's "First Steps in Anglo-Saxon", Lessons 1 - 5 from "Esperanto in Twenty Lessons", two sections on language by Varro, a story in Latin from "Fabulae Faciles", "Greek Lessons: 1-10", the Phonology Section from a "Primer of Persian" and Lessons 1 - 19 from "A Practical Arabic Course". (Summary by Nicholas James Bridgewater)

Podcasts

A Grammar of the English Tongue, part 4

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 53 seconds

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A Grammar of the English Tongue, part 3

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 35 seconds

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A Grammar of the English Tongue, part 2

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 57 seconds

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A Grammar of the English Tongue, part 1

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 5 seconds

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The Study of Living Languages - Part 02

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 42 seconds

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The Study of Living Languages - Part 01

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 5 seconds

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First Steps in Anglo-Saxon, Pronunciation section

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds

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A Practical Arabic Course

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 56 seconds

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A Primer of Persian Phonology Section

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 55 seconds

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On inflection and parts of speech

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 19 seconds

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On the Science of the Origin of Words

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 3 seconds

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First Steps in Anglo-Saxon, Nouns section

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 19 seconds

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How to Learn a Foreign Language

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 7 seconds

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Greek Lessons: 1-10

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 33 seconds

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French Conversation-Grammar, first lesson

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 39 seconds

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Perseus, from Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds

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Esperanto in Twenty Lessons, Lessons 1 - 5

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 54 seconds

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The Eighth Principle Universal Peace

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 43 seconds

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First Steps in Anglo-Saxon, Be issum middangearde

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 25 seconds

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Beginning Latin, Lesson 1

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds

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