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Die deutschen Laute

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By Request
Subject Languages: 
German
Primary Languages: 
German
Languages: 
German
Locations: 
Germany
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Native speaker voices examples of German vowels and consonants.
Collection Technical Notes: 
This disc is identified as “E.F. Sprechplatte No. 1” (“Recorded by Dr. Milton Cowan of the University of Iowa”). (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Funke, Erich
Milton Cowan, supervisor of recording

Lustiges deutsch

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Subject Languages: 
German
Primary Languages: 
German
Languages: 
German
Locations: 
Germany
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Native speaker reads humorous stories: "Der kluge Rechtsanwalt", "Der unzufriedene Gast", "Hilfsbereit-Unnötig-Der Esel", and "Das Ende-Der kluge Dachshund"”
Collection Technical Notes: 
This disc is identified as "E.F. Sprechplattte No. 2A" and 2B. Dr. Milton Cowan of the University of Iowa oversaw the making of the recording. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Funke, Erich
Cowan, Milton, supervisor of recording

Pronunciation of famous Lieder

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Subject Languages: 
German
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
German
English
Locations: 
Germany
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Prof. Funke reads each Lied fluently, except for the Schumann setting of “Mondnacht”, which he reads with pauses. Disc 5L: A. Important German Sounds; B. Schumann: Mondnacht (Eichendorff) [and] Schubert: Ueber allen Gipfel is Ruh (Goethe); Disc 6L: A.Bach: Mein glaübiges [Herz]; Mozart: Des Veilchen (Goethe); Beethoven: Freudvoll und leidvoll (Goethe); Schubert: Du bist die Ruh; B. Schumann: Ich grolle nicht (Heine); Brahms: Wiegenlied (Simrock); Wolf: Gesang Weylas (Mörike) [and] R. Strauss: Traum durch die Dämmerung (Bierbaum)
Collection Technical Notes: 
Dr. Milton Cowan of the University of Iowa oversaw the making of these recordings. Note: These discs cannot now be played since the spindle holes are to narrow. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Funke, Erich
Milton Cowan, supervisor of recording

German transparent language [sample texts]

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Subject Languages: 
German
Languages: 
German
Locations: 
Germany
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
1) “Das Märchen von der harten Nuss”; “Das Urteil”; 2) “Ich sage ja nicht, daß ihr leben sollt wie ich”
Collection Technical Notes: 
Contributor: 
Unnamed

Deutsche Sprache für Ausländer

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Subject Languages: 
German
Primary Languages: 
German
Languages: 
German
Locations: 
Germany
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Grundstufe: [parts] 1 & 2; Abschnitte I-VII
Collection Technical Notes: 
From the McQuown donation
Contributor: 
Unnamed

Burg Wartenstein 1967

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Subject Languages: 
German
Primary Languages: 
German
Languages: 
German
Locations: 
Germany
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Collection Technical Notes: 
From the McQuown donation
Contributor: 
Unnamed

Burg Wartenstein 1967 (07/27/1967)

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Subject Languages: 
German
Primary Languages: 
German
Languages: 
German
Locations: 
Germany
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Collection Technical Notes: 
From the McQuown donation of c. 1997.
Contributor: 
Unnamed

Living German: A complete course

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By Request
Subject Languages: 
German
Languages: 
German
Locations: 
Germany
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Lessons 1-40: alphabet, letters and sounds, pronunciation, useful phrases, numbers, conversation, etc.
Collection Technical Notes: 
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
Contributor: 

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

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Subject Languages: 
German
Languages: 
German
Locations: 
Germany
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Book 1: Scenes 1-20;Book 2: Scenes 21-50
Collection Technical Notes: 
(Gift of the Kostas Kazazis estate to the LLA on January 28, 2003)
Contributor: 
Unnamed

Natürliche Sprachtechnik / Méthode naturelle: Deutsch

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Subject Languages: 
German
Primary Languages: 
German
Languages: 
German
Locations: 
Germany
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
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.
Collection Technical Notes: 
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.
Contributor: 
Bader, Sylva; and Fritz Lichtenhahn