Others: please read the following explanation of sound format and statement about release of the files:

Tech technicalities: You can play on-line or download and save for your own use the audio segments listed further down on this page. Just click on the symbol or underlined caption for the segment you want. The segments are delivered as digitized sound files in the standard no-cost cross-platform QuickTime(TM) format ("flattened" for PCs). If QuickTime or a similar sound player is installed, the sounds can be played both on all Macintosh computers and on any PC-compatible equipped and configured for sound. Check your browser for its management of files with the extension ".mov." If the browser cannot handle such files (most can now!), your attempt to download will fail outright or produce just a very long stream of jumbled text. The segments average somewhat less than a megabyte in size and a minute in length of play. Allow a suitable time for the download.

Here you can select a link to another page on this site where you will find a link to download QuickTime from an external site. To return after the QuickTime download, use your browser's "back" facility or a similar way (bookmark this site, etc.). Or you can download the sounds and then go get QuickTime.

Legal technicalities: All of the audio files offered here were collected and processed by the authors of this website and of the language textbook packages in which they have been incorporated (Wie, bitte? and ¿Cómo?). We believe the original sounds themselves to be free of copyright restrictions. Even so, we regard the sound files themselves, as we have processed them, to be our intellectual property, and therefore place the following restrictions on their use:

These sound files are "e-mailware." You are free to use them for educational purposes, and you may pass them on to others. The only restriction is that you not assemble them into other collections or use them in other products that you distribute for profit.

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