Comments on: Emaildesk: Letter from Japan

By: J

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:07:44 +0000

Hi there, thanks for helping to spread the word about Librivox in Japan! Appreciate it=)

sidenote… wondering any of you would be interested in going on tours… cos I have an agency to recommend to all of you. It’s Nam Ho Travel. =)

Prolly I will just leave their websites? Cheerios!

http://namho.com.sg

http://outofsingapore.com

By: kaseumin

kaseumin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:04:12 +0000

Er… I’d love to post all of my recordings in the puslic domain to Librivox.
I’m just too busy to do so. Taking care of my spoiled cat, working overtime,making sushi, doing Zen sitting meditation, etc.
That’s all…

By: David

David — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:45:18 +0000

Ah yes, random.user, that’s the wonderful kaseumin! It was her recording of Basho that drew me to LibriVox… Sadly, though, we only catalogue recordings that are presented/recorded for us by the readers. Much as we might love to, we can’t take kaseumin’s recordings from her own site and present them as if they were LibriVox recordings. Still, they are there…

By: random.user

random.user — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:35:00 +0000

Not sure why more public domain offers made by one of the original contributors aren’t on the librivox site? she has a whole lot that she has recorded with great dictation. http://jclab.wordpress.com/

By: hugh

hugh — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:28:25 +0000

Hi MT, you could also encourage your listeners to record for us…;-)

By: MT

MT — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:10:09 +0000

Hi Sydney,

Thank you for your suggestion.
I actually thought about contributing some Japanese readings. I bought a set of mic and tried. It was fun to record, but I did not like what I read. I was also not sure if my pronunciation was accurate. So I decided, I would wait until I become more comfortable with my readings. 　But I will think about it again as I do feel it is great to help to enrich the variety of LibriVox.
Anyway, thank you again for wonderful recordings to all of you!

By: Sydney Carten

Sydney Carten — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:39:36 +0000

not a huge variety of Japanese works, true, but when I wrote “the growing variety that Librivox has to offer” I was referring to EVERYTHING Librivox has to offer, not just the Japanese stuff

By: hugh

hugh — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:28:17 +0000

it’s not a huge collection, but we do have 2 works in Japanese.

By: Sydney Carten

Sydney Carten — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:29:35 +0000

I’m very pleased to hear that you are helping to spread the word about Librivox in Japan.

Listening to audiobooks is indeed a great way to broaden one’s knowledge of other languages. As well as listening to English recordings in Librivox I am also enjoying those in German and Russian. As I am now studying Mandarin I have also started listening to the Mandarin poetry provided by Librivox.

I hope one day you will consider contributing some Japanese language recordings to enrich the growing variety that Librivox has to offer.

regards,

Sydney Carten