Sun, April 5th, 2009
Cable Clutter solved!
Posted by: Mary
Do you carry your audiobooks on your MP3 player? Are you as compulsive as I am, with multiple players both iPod & not – one in the gym bag, one for walking the dog, a spare in the car? Toss in the cell phone & camera and you’ve got a jumble of chargers! With [...]
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Sat, April 4th, 2009
Free Audiobook – Marley & Me
Posted by: Mary
My husband found a Garmin GPS under the tree this year. One of the sneaky reasons I chose his model is that it also serves as an MP3 player, and has a headphone jack. Now he can listen to talk radio on the car system, while I plug into headphones and listen to an audiobook [...]
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Fri, April 3rd, 2009
Listening with a Critical Ear Part 2
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Evaluating audiobooks? Be sure to check out part one for pronunciation guides as well!
Here are some great resources if you want to check the authenticity of an accent or dialect. The phenomenal Speech Accent Archive from George Mason University’s Program in Linguistics is the first stop to tune your ear to the cadence of speech [...]
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Wed, April 1st, 2009
Marcelo in the Real World
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What a gift – a miracle of a book, given a brilliantly nuanced reading by Lincoln Hoppe. Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork deserves the slower pace that is often found when listening, rather than devoring the extraordinary text. I just finished the last CD, and am still too stunned to do [...]
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