Resource Request: Recordings for John DeFrancis' Intermediate and Advanced Chinese textbooks

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Request: Original tapes/CD/mp3s for John DeFrancis' Intermediate and Advanced Chinese textbooks

 

In 2013, Seton Hall released the audio to the public for John DeFrancis' Chinese textbook series here: https://www.shu.edu/global-learning-center/chinese-audio-materials.cfm.

 

Unfortunately, while the quality of the audio for Beginner Chinese is solid, but is unusable for most the Intermediate Chinese and varies for the Advanced Chinese. 

 

Here is example audio from the beginner book: 

http://a32.phobos.apple.com/us/r30/CobaltPublic/v4/16/b0/01/16b00156-a2cb-96f1-e096-b9484ae4bfad/322-8323264016894303771-Beginning_Chinese_Lesson_08.mp3

 

Here is example audio from the intermediate book:

http://a1257.phobos.apple.com/us/r30/CobaltPublic4/v4/6e/12/79/6e1279aa-5a0b-4bac-561b-bd09f7c43319/314-5899126165984696130-Intermediate_Chinese_02.mp3

 

As a note, the audio was released under a "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License", so copyright shouldn't be an issue here.

 

Spoiler

 

If you have any of recordings with better quality, please share!

 

Similar post made here in July:

https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/60172-audio-for-defranciss-intermediate-chinese/?tab=comments#comment-469920

 

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https://auphonic.com/landing

 

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I suggest that you give it a shot and see how good the result is.

If you are determined to get a hand on better quality audio, maybe this is an option for you.