recording of chinese texts

[Qiuyue]

Hi

I´ve been using the Chinese Practical Reader textbooks (not the New ones...) for a while, and I love those stories from a time that is now the past...(read: those lovely texts of communist propaganda).

I have read them all many times, and for the vocablists I use my plecodict flashcard function.

I also very much would like to have the stories read for me, by a native chinese. But I don´t have the facilities to let someone record them for me.

So, my quesion is: does anyone know of any company that could record those text for me and send them to me as digital files (Mp3)?

Cheers!

[yunxiao333]

Why not let a Chinese friend read for you?

[Qiuyue]

good idea, but recording how?

[wrbt]

Many cheapo portable MP3 players have a voice recorder capability. Pick up a 1 gig for for $40, give to friend to record, then you can use it to listen to them.

I've got MP3s for just about every textbook series I've gone thru: NPCR, Shifting Tides, Across the Straits, David & Helen, Beyond the Basics... I walk about an hour per day so it's great review to play those while walking about.

[atitarev]

Don't waste your friend's and your own time:

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/khsu2/audio.html

http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/pcr/textrecording/recording.htm

http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/PCR/PCR%20index.htm

There are also video files for both old and new versions, do a search!