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Dialogs for Modern Spanish (second edition):; A project of the Modern Language Association

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By Request
Subject Languages: 
Spanish
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
Spanish
English
Locations: 
Spain
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Units 1-24 [in Latin American Spanish]
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph records are the three MLA Modern Spanish discs, Side Nos. CP-477, CP-478, and CP-479. Gift of the Kostas Kazazis estate to the LLA on January 28, 2003
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Spoken Albanian (Indiana University) [Tosk dialect]

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By Request
Subject Languages: 
Tosk Albanian
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
Tosk Albanian
English
Locations: 
Albania
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
An American announcer introduces the lessons, another man reads the English examples and a native male speaker supplies the Albanian for Lessons 1-4 and the beginning fragment of Lesson 5.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tape consists of the two tapes (from Indiana) on seven-inch reels wound off onto a hub; JJT, 12/21/77. The date of the original recording is unknown but must pre-date 1963. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
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Amharic basic course (Foreign Service Institute): Volume I, Units 1-50

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By Request
Subject Languages: 
Amharic
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
Amharic
English
Locations: 
Africa
Ethiopia
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
An American man, speaking English, introduces the 50 lessons, and various (male) native speakers voice the Amharic text: Amharic Basic Course, published by the Foreign Service Institute (Washington, D.C., in two volumes (1964-65). They may be found in Regenstein Library.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tapes are the copies on five-inch reels sent to the LLA from F.S.I. c. 1969. They were subsequently run off onto hubs by JJT in 1970. The original recordings were probably made before the publication date of the volumes. (Unreviewed) WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
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Holt Iraqi Arabic; Spoken Iraqi Arabic

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Subject Languages: 
Mesopotamian Arabic
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
Mesopotamian Arabic
English
Locations: 
Iraq
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
An American man reads the English parts of the lessons, while a native speaker supplies the Iraqi Arabic. The Holt company re-issued Van Wagoner's text in two volumes: Vol. I (1949) and Vol. II (1958). Regenstein has the DMA's copy of both.
Collection Technical Notes: 
These masters were dubbed in the Old Lab c. 1955 from Holt's re-issue of the World War II-era set of discs prepared by the United States Armed Forces Institute (U.S.A.F.I.) [not now in the DMA collection]. The WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
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A course in Levantine Arabic (1974)

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Subject Languages: 
North Levantine Arabic
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
North Levantine Arabic
English
Locations: 
Syria
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Various native speakers (male and female) voice the lessons from the texbook, A Course in Levantine Arabic, by Ernest N. McCarus et al. (Ann Arbor: Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan, 1974). (The dialect used here is from Syria.) A copy of the book can be found in Regenstein Library.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tapes are dubs made from the 3.75 ips, half-track copies on polyester stock and seven-inch reels lent to the LLA by the University of Michigan. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
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Let’s learn Arabic

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By Request
Subject Languages: 
Standard Arabic
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
Standard Arabic
English
Locations: 
Saudi Arabia
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Selections from An Arabic reader

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By Request
Subject Languages: 
Standard Arabic
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
Standard Arabic
English
Locations: 
Saudi Arabia
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Native speaker reads selections taken from Yellin and Billig's An Arabic Reader--probably from the 1963 reprint of the third edition, published by the Johnson Reprint Corp. (New York).
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tapes are dubs made in 1967 from '"private" recordings lent to the Language Lab. The ultimate source of this series and the date of production are unknown. WAVE files are converted to MP3s.
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Advanced Arabic readers: Volume 2 (1962)

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By Request
Subject Languages: 
Standard Arabic
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
Standard Arabic
English
Locations: 
Saudi Arabia
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Native speaker (male) does a fluent reading of the Introduction and Selections 1-6 of Volume 2 of the Reader.
Collection Technical Notes: 
The original recordings were made at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962. These copies were sent from Berkeley at some unknown date. Note: Most of the tapes were recorded in full-track configuration while two of them were done in half-track. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
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A reader in modern literary Arabic (c. 1964)

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By Request
Subject Languages: 
Standard Arabic
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
Standard Arabic
English
Locations: 
Saudi Arabia
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
An unidentified native speaker (male) does a fluent reading of the 34 texts from Farhat J. Ziadeh's A Reader in Modern Literary Arabic (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964).
Collection Technical Notes: 
Masters are the tapes on seven-inch reels sent from the publisher c. 1970 and wound off onto hubs in 1982. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
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An introduction to Moroccan Arabic

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By Request
Subject Languages: 
Moroccan Arabic
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
Moroccan Arabic
English
Locations: 
Africa
Morocco
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
An unnamed male speaker reads the English text, while two native speakers (male) voice the Arabic portions. Pronunciation Drills and Units 1-20, drawn (probably) from the 1973 edition of An Introduction to Moroccan Arabic, Ann Arbor: Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tapes were dubbed in 1976 from the 7.5 ips, half-track loan copies (on seven-inch reels) from the University of Michigan. (Unreviewed) WAVE files have been converted to MP3s.
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