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Educational Courses in Digital Format?

Posted by Cliff on from the taking-your-lecturer-with-you dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I own a portable MP3 player. Recently, my friend showed me several MP3 files he ripped that teach Japanese. I spend much of my day commuting to and from work. Using my portable player to learn new topics strikes me as a good use of that time. Can anyone recommend any educational audio files?"

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  1. Try this: by Lazyhound · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can probably find something here.

  2. TNC by kxr · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not sure if this is the kind of thing you're after, but there's loads of really good stuff on TechNetCast. I just got myself an MP3 car-stereo, and plan to grab all the talks I haven't gotten around to listening to, so that I can listen to them in the car.

  3. Audible by egrinake · · Score: 5, Informative
    Audible provides alot of various books on everything from fiction to science to language courses in a downloadable audio format. Unfortunately, they use a proprietary audio format (in order to encrypt the data etc) which are only playable on a handful of MP3 players which are "Audible ready".

    You can, however, burn the files to a cd (according to the site), and then you should be able to rip it back to mp3.