Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Audiobook in Inglese americano

Nel mio tempo libero sto già da tempo ascoltando l'audiobook di Harry Potter
and the Chamber of Secrets letto da Stephen Fry, come mi era stato
consigliato su questo newsgroup.
E' un esercizio che mi è molto congeniale, probabilmente per via del fatto
che mi spinge ad affrontarlo con maggiore concentrazione rispetto ad una
visione di BBC World o di Euronews (che pure sono ottimi e sono ormai
diventati i canali che guardo maggiormente ;-) ).
Ora vorrei però iniziare ad esercitarmi specificatamente anche sull'Inglese
americano.
Mi interesserebbe quindi sapere se avete dei consigli su un buon audiobook,
che riguardi un libro scritto con un linguaggio moderno, letto in Americano.
Ovviamente il mio livello è basso, quindi mi trovo meglio con cose semplici.
Grazie :-)
P.S.: Non sono ancora riuscito a capire perché su Hotbird la CNN
International sia data in chiaro solo in certi momenti, senza alcun
apparente motivo (considerando che capita che torni ad essere criptata anche
a metà delle news).
-- 
Lorenzo Castelli
E-Mail: 
gcas...@racine.ra.it

 che riguardi un libro scritto con un linguaggio moderno, letto in Americano.
I'm sorry I don't have any suggestions for you; I don't use audiobooks in
English, but it seems that many of them are recorded by British readers
anyway. I tried Amazon.com's audiobook section and there are lots of
selections, but I couldn't find any indication of who the readers are.
-- 
If you feel the need to e-mail me, un-not my address first.

che riguardi un libro scritto con un linguaggio moderno, letto in
Americano.
Io ho l'audiobook di Apollo 13, il libro scritto a quattro mani con Jim
Lovell.
Credo si possa definire inglese americano (specie quando parla Lovell).
L'ho trovato molto bello anche se, per la presenza di termini tecnici ( e
una miriade di acronimi) a un primo ascolto si può perdere il filo.
saluti,
Peltio

americano.
Depending on your moral convictions you could head over to
a.b.mp3.audiobooks and sample a few there. Failing that maybe Joey or
Joe would create one for you. <g>

"jonny" <j...@jj.jj> wrote in message
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I didn't know he was interested in "fumetti".  :>)

 una miriade di acronimi) a un primo ascolto si puň perdere il filo.
Grazie per il consiglio, proverň a cercarlo :-)
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 a.b.mp3.audiobooks and sample a few there.
Unfortunately my news server has a very limited support for the alt.binaries
hierarchy, but thank you for the suggestion anyway. :-)
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 selections, but I couldn't find any indication of who the readers are.
Yeah, I had the same problem.
Thanks anyway Joey :-)
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 a.b.mp3.audiobooks and sample a few there.
My newserver gives me alt.binaries.sounds.audiobooks only.
There I've seen several interesting titles but I'm very ignorant. I opened
the posts containing a lot of strange characters and I don't know how to
build files and to create a unique file.
How can I do ?
Thank you very much
Lapo

 build files and to create a unique file.
How can you read it?! I haven't yet been able to receive one binary group
with a free news-server.
Bye, FB
-- 
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mi fa venire i conati.
(commento sul film "Troy" apparso su it.fan.scrittori.tolkien)

 with a free news-server.
did you tried tin newserver ?
I'm using 
powernews.libero.it
 and I can join alt.binaries.sounds.audiobooks
cheers
Lapo


Lapo -
What News Reader do you use?
Does your IP provide you with newsgroups?
FB - What do you mean by a free news-server?
Joe from Massachusetts

 FB - What do you mean by a free news-server?
I couldn't receive binary groups and was advised some news-servers, but
none of them was free. At all events, strangely enough I can receive binary
groups with 
news.tin.it
 now. 
Bye, FB
-- 
Nasalization is just a part of life.
(Joey DoWop Dee on it.cultura.linguistica.inglese)

 Does your IP provide you with newsgroups?
Yes, I'm using the newsserver (
powernews.libero.it
) provided by my internet
provider
thank you very much
Lapo

 I couldn't receive binary groups and was advised some news-servers
Er... I reworded the sentence many times. The original version must have
been something like "and was advised to use a different news-server".
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If I understand your setup correctly, you need additional software,
some of which is free. Outlook cannot serve the function of News
Reader. You need to install a true News Reader, in addition to
Outlook.
I use Outlook for mail and "ordinary" news groups, like this one, but
I also use Xnews, a free program, to read binary newsgroups. Maybe
someone more familiar with the situation in Italy could explain it
better.
Joe from Massachusetts

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I think he means Outlook Express 6...
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Thank you very much
OE isn't well suited for binaries but it can do it. You need to
download all the sections that make up the file, join the sections
together ( I think with OE you right click on one of the sections and
select "join/merge parts/sections something like that) but beware,
most of the stuff posted to Usenet these days is yEnc encode and OE
can't handle that so you'll need to save the raw message and then
decode with "yDec". It's available free on the Internet. But a much
better alternative is not to use OE. I use Agent, it not everybody's
cup of tea but it handles binaries mush better than OE (it
automatically decodes yEnc and shows the file whole, not in sections)
I also use Newsbin pro. It's a dedicated binary downloader.

 I think he means Outlook Express 6...
Yes Joey, I meant Outlook Express 6. In any case if I've understood reading
Jonny hints I've in any case to change newsreader to better handle binaries.
Thank you very much to you all.
I'll download agent.
bye
Lapo

 I also use Newsbin pro. It's a dedicated binary downloader.
On alt.binaries.sounds.audiobooks, all files seem to have the same body:
<example>
This is a multipart post with 48 parts. The following parts are available
on the server:
<numbers separated by a comma>
The following parts are missing on the server:
<numbers separated by a comma>
The following parts are locally missing: 
<numbers separated by a comma>
</example>
Do you know what that mean?
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It sounds to me like you may be looking at a binary newsgroup with a
program not intended for the downloading of binary files, that is, you
are not using a true News Reader program.
When I load my News Reader program and select a binary newsgroup, all
I see is a list of files. I can sort them by name. There may be forty
or fifty files which are required in order to download a particular
item. For example, there may be 40 files named "collodi-pinocchio 1/1
.rar" through "collodi-pinocchio 40/40 .rar". I have to select those
forty files, then download them, in order to determine whether any of
the files are incomplete or corrupted. Sometimes it is obvious that a
file on the server is corrupt, either by its size or some other
indicator.
I may be wrong, but let's hear from the other members of the group.
Joe from Massachusetts


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When binary files are uploaded to Usenet they are done so in parts (or
sections) The example you mentioned consisted of 48 parts. You need to
download all 48 parts to make the file complete. If all the files in
that group have parts missing, then to put it bluntly, your ISPs news
server is shit.
A lot of ISPs don't have a decent binary news server. There are dozens
of quality pay servers like Giganews & Easynews (who I'm with) but of
course you have to pay. One cheap alternative is Teranews (I have this
as well) you pay them a one off set up of fee of $4, and then you can
download a maximum of 50megs a day. If your on broadband then it's
pretty useless but, if you're on dialup then might be worth your
while.Trying to a find a decent free binary news server is a near
impossibility.

are not using a true News Reader program.
Nope.
It's just a missing posts problem. Italian newsservers don't usually carry
all of the messages needed to reconstruct a file.
cheers,
Peltio

Do you know what that mean?
That the newsserver does not carry all of the posts needed to recovery the
original message (they were not sent, were deleted or simply got lost in the
net).
There is no way out unless the original poster does not post the missing
posts for you again.
cheers,
Peltio