by sawasawaya on February 2nd, 2010, 2:49 pm
I went back to the library yesterday to pick up the rest of the FSI Yoruba tapes that I'm digitizing and it turns out they have an *almost complete* set of genuine govt-issued FSI Chinyanja, too. Unfortunately, they're missing the first cassette. Tape 2 begins with Unit 11, but the sound quality is good.
Just for the heck of it I phoned NTIS this morning to ask if it was possible to order a single cassette as a replacement, but the lady said no, they only sell complete sets.
Was gallowayd able to establish whether his Chinyanja audio met the public domain requirements? If not, I'll start digitizing Chinyanja when I finish with Yoruba, probably in about a week.
I also noticed the same library had an entry in the catalog for FSI Hausa, but I haven't yet laid eyes on the tapes to know if they're government-issued or Audio Forum. I know we still lack the audio for units 11-30, so that'll be the next thing for me to look into.