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MAX recording time: 90 seconds.
If you can do it in less then 60 seconds, even better. -
Do it in English or in any other language.
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You can mention your real name, email address, site address, etc.
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Best recordings have both a good sound quality and a teacher who speaks clearly.
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If you can teach something new about your language within the short time you've got, it will certainly leave an impression.
How do you say hello in Russian?
Tell them about your teaching skills and how you can be reached.
RECORDINGS will be immersed in our language shows and also here, on our site.
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Welcome to the exciting audio language learning project TALK PARROT.
The TALK PARROT site offers free language learning audio for listeners from all over the world. Our audio can be reached on the site or directly on Sound Cloud, iTunes (as a podcast subscription) and in the future on Google play (as a smart phone app).
The language lessons and shows are recorded as Skype conversation between Talk Parrot presentors and online language teachers. Teachers are also offered to make do-it-yourself lessons, although this might require some technical equipment, time and know-how.
Connect with new students
Every language represented in the site has its own page and in it there is a list of contributors - teachers who have helped make the free audio lessons of that language.
To schedule your first/next Skype conversation with Talk Parrot (which will become your next lesson/episode participation), click here!
Good luck and hope to hear from you soon,
Talk Parrot
Learn how to record a lesson with Talk Parrot
As the content of our lessons is what really important to us, we know that listeners will not tune in if the sound is anything but perfect. When recording a two side conversation, for example with Skype, usually the voice of the speaker on the far side comes out pretty bad and has a poor quality feeling.
To work around this problem we strongly suggest to our companion teachers to record their own voice separately (while Skyping with us) and later on send this recording to us, for further adjustments. On behalf of the teacher, this does not necessitate more than a couple of mouse clicks.
So this is what we recommend:
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Find the most quiet room in your house. Use a headset with microphone or an external microphone but do not count on your computer’s built-in microphone as these tend to pick a lot of background noise and produce poor sound quality in general. Here is an example of a relatively good headset. There are even cheaper options to be found on the net.
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I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. I’m a great place for you to tell a story and let your users know a little more about you.
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​Download the free sound editing program Audacity. Using this popular program you’d be able to easily record your side of the conversation and then send it to us as a professional mp3 file.
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​Watch a short video guide on how to record with Audacity.
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​Pay attention! As mentioned in the video you’ve just watched, Audacity lacks a component that makes it possible to export your recording as an mp3 file. The first time you’d try to do so, Audacity will prompt you with a relevant message and a link to that missing component (lame encoder). Download that component and install it. This should take just a couple of seconds, so no worries about that.
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Wait for our Skype call... :-)
At Talk Parrot we will mix your side of the conversation with our side, reduce noises, add some necessary filters, put on some jingles and messages and Voila! Another episode/lesson is ready!
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Attract new students from all over the world with your own language lessons or even a complete show.
Talk Parrot is open for online language teachers and other contributors from all over the the world and practically in every language.
Record yourself, alone or with a companion, teaching your own mother tongue.
Requirements:
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Good to excellent sound quality. (as interesting as the lesson itself comes out, we won't be able to use it if the sound is not clean enough)
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An interesting lesson, of course.
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Around 10 minutes in length (2-20 minutes).
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no indecent language.
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Pure talk. No music, no jingles. (We add our music and jingles to your recording on the playlist, later)
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Understanding that this activity is on a voluntary basis, You will not be payed for the lesson, (though you can ask to be linked from your episode's listing on this site and you can mention inside the recording your activity as a teacher and how you can be reached.)
Sounds interesting? Before sending us your audio file, please fill in this form and we'll get back to you!
