Listening Dialogs [AKBK]

Details

The audio recordings from this collection stem from the following public domain textbook that was financed by the US government:

• Charles Bird, John Hutchison, and Mamadou Kanté, An Ka Bamanankan Kalan: Beginning Bambara. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University African Studies Center, 1977).

To make the audio useful for modern usage via the Internet, I have substantially “reworked” them in various ways, such as:

• I segmented digitizations of the original audio tapes into smaller individual files (so that specific segments of the original tape could be easily listed to without needing to scroll or cue up a specific moment in the timeline)
• I cleaned, edited and removed unnecessary pauses of the smaller segments for a better and more realistic listening experience

Additionally, I have transcribed each audio segment into modern Latin-based Manding orthography that deviates from the original found in the textbooks.