New French Collection: "FrenchPod"

Content Forum
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I have started to import the dialogues from the FrenchPod podcasts no. 1 to 107 (Until now you will find 27 podcasts.).
I downloaded them some years ago when they were open to everybody.

These podcasts were created by the great people at Praxislanguage.com and FrenchPod.com.
Only FrenchPod podcasts #001 … #107 are in this collection, because only these are licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Unported license, see FrenchPod® has moved to OpenLanguage and Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 .

The collection is here: http://bit.ly/dy98ER
Enjoy!
If you find mistakes in the text, please inform me.

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Thank you Hape. I’m sure that I’ll study them when I’ll come back to my french studies.

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@PierreM
Thank you for copying a part of the terms & conditions of FrenchPod.com.
The tiny asterisk (*) after the word “laws” refers to an important footnote:
“*FrenchPod lessons 1-107 only: MP3 lesson content is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Unported license.”

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I understand it in the same way like Hans-Peter. He can share lesson 1 to 107 but not the later ones.

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You need to understand the history of the Chinese-/French-/Spanish-/Italian-Pod podcasts.

In the beginning, all podcasts (not the scripts, etc.) were published under a Creative Commons 3.0 Unported license.

Later they changed the license, but only for the podcasts that were published after a certain date. They did not change the license of the old podcasts - that is the reason for the footnote today.

You may have a look at the archived version of Frenchpod.com’s terms as of Aug. 22, 2008: http://bit.ly/cJaFam (via wayback machine of archive.org). You read: “The 64kbps podcast lesson MP3 files are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.”

That was before lesson 108 was published.

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Hans, thanks for your hard work,which will benefit our members who are learning French.

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@PierreM

http://bit.ly/1USPUO
explains what you can do or not (with FrenchPod podcasts no. 1 to 107).

You are free:
to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work (i.e. to publish it here)
to Remix — to adapt the work (i.e. to copy only the dialogue)

Under the following conditions:
Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) (i.e. you must tell everybody who did the original work).

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Now there are 50 podcasts available!
The collection is here: http://bit.ly/dy98ER
Enjoy!
If you find mistakes in the texts: please inform me (here or on my blackboard).

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Thank you, Hans-Peter. I’m sure I’ll use them when I come back to my french studies.

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good job… =)

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The collection “FrenchPod” contains now 72 lessons.
The usage counter shows a total of 1336 usages.

From yesterday, the lessons are also grouped into three “courses”:
“Newbie” (28 Beginner-1 lessons, about 10 seconds long),
“Elementary” (19 Beginner-2 lessons, about 25 seconds long), and
“Intermediate” (25 Intermediate-1+2 lessons, about 50-60 seconds long).

The remaining 30 lessons will be uploaded in the next weeks. Enjoy!

PS: If you find mistakes in the texts: please inform me (here or on my board). Thanks!

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Many many thanks for your hard work hape. It is greatly appreciated, not only by me, but by all the people who are using these lessons!

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Thanks so much, hape!

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During the last weeks I uploaded 12 more podcasts.
The collection “FrenchPod” contains now 84 lessons.
The usage counter shows a total of 2476 usages - thank you all.
If you find mistakes in the texts: please inform me (here or on my board). Thanks!

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Thank you hape. When my French has improved I’ll have a look at this podcast.

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I have added three new Beginner-2 lessons.

You’ll find the three FrenchPod (FP) courses here:

http://bit.ly/mBMn9E (FP Newbie = Beginner-1, 38 lessons)
http://bit.ly/mxPHen (FP Elementary = Beginner-2, now 22 lessons)
http://bit.ly/jnbxjX (FP Intermediate = Intermediate-1, 27 lessons)

In total you can now use 87 lessons in 3 different levels. Enjoy!

The usage count of all lessons is per today 3297.

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Oh my god, the links were currupted by the LingQ forum software! (Please correct this, isn’t there a space bewteen the link and the “(”??

The links again:

http://bit.ly/mBMn9E == Newbie = Beginner-1, 38 lessons)
http://bit.ly/mxPHen == Elementary = Beginner-2, now 22 lessons)
http://bit.ly/jnbxjX == Intermediate = Intermediate-1, 27 lessons)