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AUDIOS & VIDEOS

Videos: Languages of the World: Introductory Overviews
Audios: Textual Readings

Videos: Languages of the World: Introductory Overviews
I have embarked upon a series of videos to provide introductory overviews of the languages of the world that will answer questions such as: what does language X look like? What does it sound like? How does it work?

The whole point of making these videos is to show you the pages of the texts, and in filming I have focused and zoomed-in on them to triple magnification such that they are perfectly clear and legible on a full screen before I upload them. If you find the information that I provide on these videos helpful, I recommend that you pause often and examine the pages I am trying to show you.  Watch in the “full screen mode,” use the “zoom” feature, and, if the “higher resolution” option is not available, try adding  &fmt=18  directly to the end of the URL to get a slightly higher resolution. 

 
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Ultimately I hope and expect to make upwards of 60 different videos of languages systematically grouped according to genetics and compared and contrasted according to culture. 

I have begun the series with:

Indo-European  Germanic West-Germanic
German
Dutch
Afrikaans
Frisian

North-Germanic
Icelandic



Audios: Textual Readings
Here are some samples of me reading stories, poems, and excerpts from novels aloud, as I do daily for my own pleasure and edification as well as for my continued progress in language learning. 

Afrikaans – Beginning of André P. Brink:  Anderkant die stilte
Arabic – Beginning of A Tale of Two Friends
Danish – Hans Christian Andersen Den Onde Fyrste
Faroese – J.P. Gregoriussen:  Í Føroyum
Frisian – Tsjêbbe Hettinga:  De blauwe hauk fan Wales
Hindi – Excerpt from the Ramanyana
Icelandic – Tales: Kirkjusmiđurinn á Reyni, Heyhirđingin
Norwegian (Bokmål) – Sigrid Undset:  Kristin Lavransdatter
Norwegian (Nynorsk) – Beginning of Egilssoga
Persian – Beginning of Saadi’s Boolestan
Russian – Beginning of Gogol’s Overcoat
Swedish – Beginning of Selma Lagerlöf:  Gösta Berling’s Saga


 
 
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