JustinJJ Posted March 8, 2015 at 12:04 PM Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 at 12:04 PM Hi there, does anyone know if any freely available lists on the internet which show common/useful sentences I'm a language? My aim is to get my girlfriend to record a bunch of sentences mandarin-kunminghua so I can create a glossika-like set of recorded sentences to Listen to / practise the dialect. Thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneEye Posted March 8, 2015 at 12:33 PM Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 at 12:33 PM I bet your girlfriend could get in touch with Mike at Glossika and offer to collaborate with him on a Kunminghua course. I know a while back he was looking for collaborators on pretty much any language, and I don't think he's started Kunminghua yet. Then you get a course and she gets paid, 一舉兩得. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabiothebest Posted March 8, 2015 at 03:02 PM Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 at 03:02 PM I'm in the same situation but for another Chinese dialect. I did contact Mike, unfortunately he doesn't accept recommendations..he takes suggestions as an offense for his work.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pross Posted March 9, 2015 at 05:25 AM Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 at 05:25 AM Have you considered ripping sentences from an existing shared anki deck? e.g. https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2003820603 I think the world would benefit from a wikipedia version of glossika, where anyone can contribute sentence audio. While http://tatoeba.org/ is similar to this, it lacks a curated list of useful sentences, and there's no incentive/reward mechanism for contributors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexBlackman Posted March 9, 2015 at 05:44 AM Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 at 05:44 AM @Pross - That'd be a brilliant idea, though quality control may be an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted March 9, 2015 at 06:28 AM Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 at 06:28 AM Which is more or less the same problem tatoeba faces. I don't think you'll get reliable data unless you have people paid to develop it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinJJ Posted March 22, 2015 at 04:39 AM Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 at 04:39 AM Thanks for the responses and sorry for the late reply. I think I'll selectively go through an anki sentence deck and cherry pick sentences from there for her to record. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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