Phonograph discs are the five Modern Russian I discs, Side Nos. R4RM 0630 through 0639. (Gift of the Kostas Kazazis estate to the LLA on January 28, 2003)
Phonograph discs are the five Modern Russian II discs, Side Nos. S4RM 5864 through 5873. (Gift of the Kostas Kazazis estate to the LLA on January 28, 2003)
Cassettes are dubs of the publisher’s cassettes, lent to the LLA by L. Killean; JJT, rec. eng., 9/25/85. 9/14/06 Videotapes are the two master copies plus one copy of Part 1, one copy of Parts 1 & 2 combined, and three copies of part 2.
Native speaker voices texts drawn from the third volume of Elementary Arabic: a series planned by Frederic Du Pre Thornton, originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1911.
Collection Technical Notes:
Tapes are apparently dubs made in 1967 from tapes lent to the Language Lab. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
An unnamed woman, speaking American English, voices the English portions of the text of Lessons 1-71, while a native speaker (male) supplies the Arabic tokens. The lessons are drawn from Tunisian Arabic Basic Course, published in two volumes by Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1970. (The text may be found in Regenstein Library).
Collection Technical Notes:
Masters are copies sent from Indiana University c. 1975 and added to the LLA collection at some unknown date. (Unreviewed) WAVE files are converted to MP3s.