This collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource at LibriVox. The LibriVox Language Learning Collections contain readings from various language learning books, grammars, primers, phrasebooks, dictionaries, readers and even other works which contain information on various languages, recount experiences of language learning and encountering new languages or provide guides for correct pronunciation, writing or discourse in a language. These works could describe English or any other language whatsoever, from Latin to Sumerian, Chinese to Wampanoag, Esperanto to Swahili (etc.).
This collection includes Beginning Latin: Lessons 4 to 5, Latin for Beginners 1 to 3, Elegantiæ Latinæ by Edward Valpy, Chapter 2 – Hercules, from Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles, Dialogues 1 to 5 from The English and French Interpreter, Lessons 16 to 20 from Esperanto in Twenty Lessons , First Lessons of Chinese (Introduction and Chapter One), Grammar of English Grammars, chapters 1 – 3, Greek Lessons: 26 to 30, The Languages of Britain, from Polychronicon, A Plea for Phonetic Spelling [or, The Necessity of Orthographic Reform], § 1. to § 4, Lessons 31 – 35 from A Practical Arabic Course, Zamenhof’s An Attempt towards an International Language: Part I: First, Second and Third Problems, How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition (Preface) and a second version of The Aural System. (Introduction by Nicholas J. Bridgewater)
Other Audiobook
Audiobook: Madame de Mauves
Considered an early masterpiece, “Madame de Mauves” is the first of Henry James’s ‘international contrasts’.
Audiobook: Compilation de poèmes – 002
Cette compilation comprend une série de poèmes lus, en langue française, pour LibriVox. (Ezwa)
Audiobook: Oscar Wilde and Myself
The first memoir by the poet Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas was written 14 years after
Audiobook: Life-Story of a Russian Exile
Hero or assassin? Victim or criminal? Marie Sukloff fits no easy category. A young peasant
Audiobook: Tess of the d’Urbervilles (version 2)
Tess of the d’Urbervilles subtitled, “A Pure Woman,” is the story of a young working
Audiobook: Merton of the Movies
Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic
Audiobook: Faraday As A Discoverer
This is the first of two related Faraday projects. It is about Faraday and deals
Audiobook: Verses Popular And Humorous (Version 2)
Verses, Popular and Humorous (1900) was the second collection of poems by Australian poet Henry
Audiobook: Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century
Parkman has been hailed as one of America’s first great historians and as a master
Audiobook: Guide to Men
A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women
Audiobook: Titan Of Chasms: The Grand Canyon Of Arizona
This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand
Audiobook: Rainbow Trail
The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels