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Eric Hamp interviews a native speaker of Lower Sorbian

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Hamp, speaking German, interviews a native speaker of Lower Sorbian (or Lower Lusatian) in the village of Babau in the state of Niederlausitz in the former German Democratic Republic c. 1987.

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Cassettes are the original field recordings. The WAVE files have been converted to MP3s.

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Hamp, Eric P., researcher, and anonymous consultant

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Jedermann: Das Spiel vom Sterben des reichen Mannes

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Directed by Ernst Lothar, the play was staged in Salzburg, Austria. (This play was adapted in 1912 from the fifteenth-century English morality play, Everyman.)

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Phonograph record is the 12-inch, 33 1/3 rpm, monophonic vinyl Deutsche Grammaphon Gesellschaft disc, cat. no. 43032. (Gift of the Kostas Kazazis estate to the LLA on January 28, 2003) WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.

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Deutsch, Ernst; Ernst Ginsberg; Will Quadflieg; Adrienne Gessner; Martha Wallner; Maria Becker; Erich Auer; Hans Ernst Jäger; and Hilde Mikulicz

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Living German: A complete course

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Lessons 1-40: alphabet, letters and sounds, pronunciation, useful phrases, numbers, conversation, etc.

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Phonograph discs are the four “The Living Language Course” discs, Side nos. 23751 through 23758. Gift of the Kostas Kazazis estate to the LLA on January 28, 2003

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Think and talk German: a program based on the Berlitz method

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Book 1: Scenes 1-20;Book 2: Scenes 21-50

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(Gift of the Kostas Kazazis estate to the LLA on January 28, 2003)

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Unnamed

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Natürliche Sprachtechnik / Méthode naturelle: Deutsch

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This is a correspondence course in German given by the Ecole de Langues in Lausanne, Switzerland (c. 1954). On the discs two native speakers of German (one man, one woman) voice select exercises from a total of 131; there is only German on the recordings.

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Phonograph records are seven (out of an original eight) Prontophon discs, Nos. 1-4, 6-8. [No. 5 is apparently missing.] Four documents (in French only) accompany the discs, including correspondence and advisory materials. (Gift of the Kostas Kazazis estate to the LLA on January 28, 2003) WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.

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Bader, Sylva; and Fritz Lichtenhahn