{"id":4524,"date":"2011-02-24T15:34:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2011-02-24T15:34:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:34:26","slug":"audio-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=4524","title":{"rendered":"Audio books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment I&#8217;m reading the novel <em>Le Grand Meaulnes<\/em> by Alain Fournier, and have been wondering how to pronounce <em>Meaulnes<\/em>, which is the name of one of the characters. I guessed it was something like \/meyln\/ or \/meyln\u0259\/, and have now discovered that it&#8217;s pronounced more like \/m\u0153ln\/. I&#8217;ve also found a free audio book version of the story on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Le-Grand-Meaulnes-suite\">Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When reading texts in foreign languages I usually read them aloud to practise speaking those languages. Listening to recordings of texts as I&#8217;m reading, and repeating what I&#8217;m hearing, helps me improve my pronunciation and intonation, as well as my listening comprehension. I find this a useful way to improve my knowledge of languages, and also to enjoy stories and learn new things from factual texts.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/audio\">Audio Archive<\/a> or that site contains thousands of audio books, podcasts and other recordings. Most are in English, but there quite a few in other languages, including Arabic, French, German and Spanish. A related resource is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiocite.net\/\">Audiocite.net<\/a>, which contains numerous audio books and other recordings in French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment I&#8217;m reading the novel Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier, and have been wondering how to pronounce Meaulnes, which is the name of one of the characters. I guessed it was something like \/meyln\/ or \/meyln\u0259\/, and have now discovered that it&#8217;s pronounced more like \/m\u0153ln\/. I&#8217;ve also found a free audio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}