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Basic English

PostPosted: April 6th, 2011, 3:26 pm
by lieuinnhatrang
I have been searching the internet for basic Vietnamese and finally stumbled here. Just starting but I like the layout and having to be repeat a section until it is learned. My wife is Vietnamese and this is the way she teaches, insistent and sometimes harsh, but it is good. I am wondering if there is a course in English since she needs to learn English before becoming a citizen. Thanks SCC

Re: Basic English

PostPosted: April 13th, 2011, 9:14 am
by Talairan
Unfortunately not. These courses were designed to train Americans in the Foreign Service prior to moving to the country they were posted to.

Public Domain Basic English MP3s?

PostPosted: May 14th, 2011, 1:35 pm
by owenbrown
I'm working with a organization that wants to distribute Spanish-to-English language learning mp3s in downtown Los Angeles. We're searching for public domain material that we can freely distribute.

Our goal is to purchase cheap MP3 players from China, load them with MP3s, then let Spanish speakers swap the players out for new players with the next set of lessons. We aim to keep costs extremely low.

If you know of any public domain material, please email me at firstname.lastname@gmail.com. My name is Owen Brown, or give me a call at +1-31O-651-O632.

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Owen Brown

Re: Basic English

PostPosted: May 16th, 2011, 7:48 pm
by Oberon
How about this:

El inglés de los Estados Unidos / P. Carlo Rossi.
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b616489

There are several public domain textbooks for English learners at Hathi Trust (i.e. "English for Koreans", "English for Greeks", all the way to books for Yiddish speakers". Note that Hathi Trust is a group of major universities that have scanned there books and placed full view copies of the public domain versions online.

Use the following as the subject in the advanced search box:"English language Textbooks for foreign speakers". Also check the "Full view only" box.
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Advanced

BTW- if you have a recording studio and access to native Spanish speakers, there are several Spanish books on this site that need recordings:"Suplemento para Secretarias", "Spanish FAST" and "Spanish Basic Vol 4"...

Re: Basic English

PostPosted: July 3rd, 2011, 4:37 am
by onebir
It's probably worth checking www.eric.ed.gov for English materials/drills worth recording too.