American man, speaking English, introduces the parts of Units 1-12 (to be used with Bloomfield’s Spoken Dutch text). A native speaker (male) supplies the Dutch utterances.
Collection Technical Notes:
Tapes were dubbed from one (or the other) set of the discs. (The second set of discs is from the McQuown donation.) The name of the author is supplied from the notes of Norman A. McQuown.
Set 1 is from the McQuown donation. The data on the creators is supplied from the printed texts. The same records were re-issued by Holt (q.v.) in 1946.
Native speakers (male and female), using only Russian, voice the 31 lessons of the course.
Collection Technical Notes:
Phonograph records are the sixteen 10-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Linguaphone discs issued by Linguaphone c. 1930 and stored in their (original?) carrying case. Four texts pertaining to this course were also included with the discs. (From the McQuown donation) WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Contributor:
Timotheieff, B.; Mme. Timotheieff; I. Potiekhin; Serge Ivanoff; Mme. Ivanoff; D. Svjatopolk-Mirskij
One pamphlet, excerpted from Say it in Portuguese by the editorial staff of Dover Publications, Inc., New York, folded, inside a box for a five-inch reel.