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overblue
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Post by overblue » Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:33 pm

Dear Reader!

I am a teacher of English in Hungary and I am compiling texbooks (elementary, intermediate, advanced) for learners of English. Where I live it is quite hard to find native English speakers. I am trying to collect spoken material for these publications. What I need is any spoken text in mp3 format that I can use. If you are a native speaker or know one and willing to take the trouble of recording a few sentences for me, I'll be more than happy. If you read a sentence from a book or other copyrighted material, make sure that the part you choose doesn't involve names and other features characteristic of only that piece of writing. If you choose public domain material or you just make up a few sentences of your own for me it is no problem. The length is optional, from 1 sentence to a few minutes of audio. If you're willing to help, please send your recordings to my e-mail address.
Don't forget to say at the end of the recording: "I give permission to Attila Lengyel to use this recording in his language teaching publication."

I am looking forward to your kind contribution

Yours faithfully

Attila Lengyel
Hungary

Silvercrestagain
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Post by Silvercrestagain » Sun Jan 01, 2006 7:50 pm

Hi, surely it would be easier to record some speech from the BBC internet site. I think there is a page called talkin' heads - it's not bad. :o

Superhal
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Post by Superhal » Sun Jan 01, 2006 11:42 pm

Currently, the new ibt TOEFL uses unscripted listening. Get the teacher's book (with listening) and you'll have all the natural English you can use.

If you can get a cbt TOEFL book that still has dialogues (2-4 lines of a spoken conversation) that would be good for low level skill building.

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