The author and several others voice Lessons 1-24 and selected exercises based on the 1948 edition of Mandarin Primer, by Yuen Ren Chao (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
Collection Technical Notes:
This album (Folkways FP8002) contains six 33⅓ rpm vinyl discs and two texts. it was donated to the LLA by Prof. C.C. Chao in 2003. A statement on the cover of the included booklet reads: "Recorded by Special Permission of Harvard University Press and under a subvention from Harvard-Yenching Institute". WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Native speakers (male and female) voice the 47 lessons, published by Indiana University.
Collection Technical Notes:
Phonograph records are the four 12-inch, 33 1/3 rpm, monophonic vinyl Indiana University discs "[p]ressed by RCA Victor Custom Record Dept." DMA never possessed a copy of the text. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Both a native male speaker and a native female speaker voice each character in the character set featured in the interactive computer course, “Chinese Character Self-tutor”.