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"Papa Joe & Co." science fiction short story and binaural stereo (Kunstkopf) radio play (Hörspiel) by Herbert W. Franke. Downloads include script, sound samples & graphics. Link goes to another page on this site.

 All materials © by William B. Fischer and various colleagues and co-authors. Downloads of these materials are provided, without any warranties, as a professional courtesy and as promotions of other materials which may be offered for purchase. You may download at no charge the items from this site, and you may share them freely with colleagues, students and friends. (An e-mail acknowledgment will be appreciated.) But you may not alter their form or content, except as described for a specific item or collection of items, and you may not, without express consent, incorporate any item in another product which is offered for sale or to gain some other pecuniary benefit. Proper acknowledgment of origin must be given with any use. This permission is granted as a limited license; I and my colleagues and co-authors retain all rights of authorship.

About "Wie, bitte?" - The material offered here is an electronic version of our conventionally-published (but still proficiency-oriented) Wie, bitte? textbook program. We are releasing it for use, at no cost, both to students in our own courses and to teachers and learners of German anywhere. Aside from the restrictions stated in the preceding paragraph, you are free to use it as you see fit. Specifically, you may duplicate it as a computer resource, print its screens as hard-copy pages for class or individual use, and even adopt it as a primary class "text." We offer "Wie, bitte?" as a service to German teachers and learners, in a time when maintaining German language programs faces so many difficulties, and when conventional publishers seem so reluctant to support pedagogically progressive materials.

Warning: Anyone who uses this software to avoid communicating with real human beings will be fined. Anyone who seeks a moral in it will be prosecuted. Anyone who tries to make it fit a grammar-translation curriculum will be shot. --by order of the author (with some help from Mark Twain)

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