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Rote learning a language by re-enforcing the written with the spoken is, I believe, a time-honored tradition. I'm sure many beginners have chanted "I am, you are, he is; we are, you are, they are" at an instructor moving his pointer across the words on a blackboard. If I understand correctly, you'd like more advanced students to read a text while they listen to a native speaker read that text a

The problem is that we have to stick to the official pupils' books and unfortunately the authors of these books haven't provided audio accompaniment for the reading texts. They 've just do that with the listening lessons. It seems they're not asked to do that.
Personally, I think that by listening to native speakers reading the texts they can indirectly learn the correct pronunciation for the

I understand. The first thing you must do is find out whether you need permission to make recordings. I can only speak about US law, and I freely confess that I'm neither an expert nor an intellectual property attorney. A recording of a copyrighted book is called a "derived work," and the holder of the copyright to the book generally holds the copyright to such derived works. There are allowab

Anonymous I wonder if you can read and record some texts for me

This site has a recording feature. If you post some short text here and ask for someone to read it, you may get some responses. But, we cannot guarantee the speaker's accent or the clarity of the recording.

I totally agree with you, but this is only if I'm going to commercialise the work. The fact is that I'm going to use for educational purposes and only in my classes. I'm also going to provide this benefit for my puplis for free. Besides, there seems no intention for the book authors to provide something like . They simply provided the audio files for the listening activities which I, of course, bo

mokhtar.jouini The problem is that we have to stick to the official pupils' books and unfortunately the authors of these books haven't provided audio accompaniment for the reading texts. They 've just do that with the listening lessons. It seems they're not asked to do that.Personally, I think that by listening to native speakers reading the texts they can indirectly lear

It is a common misconception about US copyright law that copying is permitted for non-commercial, personal, or educational purposes. This is untrue. The law grants the copyright holder the exclusive control of the copying of his work in any medium and for any purpose. There are two major exceptions:

• Fair use. You may quote a portion of a copyrighted work for the purpose of commenta

I mean by correct pronunciation that of a native speaker. It can British, American, Aistralian or even Indian (I've learned that Indian version of English is officially considered as English. Non-native speakers, even teachers, can make pronunciation mistakes which are seen as mistakes in any version of English. We may also confuse between versions. That's why I've thought of the idea of having a

What is the text you want recorded?

I admit that when I thought of recording some audio companiment for my pupils to overcome the problem of mispronunciation, stress and intonation (which is a big problem for Tunisian pupils as they always compare between English and French which they already master and which has somehow clear pronunciation rules) I did not think about the issue of copyright but thank you for drawing my attention to