LARA content

• "LARA picturebooks and phonetic texts" project
  • A Ukrainian ABC
    Created by Marta Mykhats 
     
  • كتاب الحروف العربية (Arabic alphabet book)
    Created by Catherine Orian Weiss 
     
  • Slovenská obrázková abeceda so skrytými písmenami (Slovak alphabet book with hidden letters)
    Created by Ivana Horváthová 
     
  • A Hebrew alphabet book
    Created by Rina Zviel-Girshin 
     
  • Íslenska stafrófið með myndum (Icelandic ABC with pictures)
    Created by Branislav Bédi 
     
  • Abécédaire le petit prince
    Created by Manny Rayner  -  Christèle Maizonniaux
     
  • Icelandic Sign Language pocket lexicon
    Created by The Communication Centre for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Iceland
     
  • Icelandic Sign Language handshape poster
    Created by The Communication Centre for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Iceland
     
  • Hieroglyphics example
    Karim Aboelela  -  Belinda Chiera  -  Manny Rayner  -  Catherine Weiss
     
  • Two annotated cartoons
    Created by Manny Rayner
     

  • Sample verses from the 1280 Völuspá manuscript
    Created by  Branislav Bedi - Haraldur Berharðsson - Ingibjörg Þórisdóttir - Manny Rayner

  • The Chaos (1920 pronunciation poem by Charivarius)
    Created by Manny Rayner
     
• "Little Prince" project
  • Le petit prince (French)
    Created by  Hossein Khooshideh - Manny Rayner - Hanieh Habibi 
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]
     
  • The Little Prince (English)
    Created by Avril - Manny Rayner - Christèle Maizonniaux 
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]
     
  • Il piccolo principe (Italian)
    Created by Matilde - Catia Cucchiarini - Ivana Horváthová - Manny Rayner  
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]
     
  • Litli prinsinn (Icelandic: in progress, ReadSpeaker TTS version)
    Created by Branislav Bedi
     
  • Mały Książę (Polish: in progress, incomplete crowdsourced version)
    Created by Anna Bączkowska and students
     
  • شازده کوچولو (Farsi: in progress, incomplete crowdsourced version)
    Created by Elham Akhlaghi - students - Chadi Raheb
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]
     
  • 小王子 (Mandarin: so far only first chapter)
    Created by Yao Chunlin
     
• "LARA/Drama" project

  • Anouilh's Antigone
    Created by Rosa Ritchie - Robert Glasser - Gwyn Glasser - Yann Davies - Marta - Kirsten Anker - Cathy Chua - Manny Rayner

  • Huis clos
    Created by Eric Dejeu - Marta Mykhats - Chadi Raheb - Gwyn Glasser - Manny Rayner

  • No Exit
    Created by Robert Glasser - Marta - Kirsten Anker - Gwyn Glasser - Manny Rayner

• "An Scéalai" project (LARA versions of traditional stories in Irish Gaelic)

  • Mar a baisteadh Fionn (How Fionn got his name)
    Created by  Neasa Ní Chiaráin - Harald Berthelsen

  • Fairceallach Fhinn Mhic Chumhaill (Fionn's Burly Friend)
    Created by  Neasa Ní Chiaráin - Harald Berthelsen

    More Irish LARA texts are posted on the ABAIR site.

• "Edda" project (Old Norse poetry in LARA)

  • Völuspá
    Created by  Branislav Bedi - Haraldur Berharðsson - Ingibjörg Þórisdóttir - Manny Rayner

  • Hávamál
    Created by Birgitta Björg Guðmarsdóttir - Brynjarr Eyjólfsson

  • Lokasenna
    Created by Ingibjörg Iða Auðunardóttir - Brynjarr Eyjólfsson

  • Völuspá, Hávamál and Lokasenna as one document

• "BarngarLARA" project (LARA resources for the revived Australian Aboriginal language Barngarla)

  • Barngarlidhi Manoo (Speaking Barngarla Together - Ghil'ad's voice)
    Barngarlidhi Manoo (Speaking Barngarla Together - Barngarla people's voices)
    Created by Ghil'ad Zuckermann

  • 50 words: Barngarla
    Created by Jenna Richards - Ghil'ad Zuckermann

  • Mangiri, Yarda (version 1) (Wellbeing, Country)
    Created by Ghil'ad Zuckermann

  • Mangiri, Yarda (version 2) (Wellbeing, Country)
    Created by Ghil'ad Zuckermann and Emma Richards

  • Welcome to Country with picture dictionary
    Created by Ghil'ad Zuckermann

• English

  • Peter Rabbit with French as L1
    Created by  Manny Rayner - Cathy Chua - Hanieh Habibi
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]

  • Peter Rabbit with Russian as L1
    Created by  Manny Rayner - Cathy Chua - Ruth Martinez-Lopez

  • Alice in Wonderland
    Created by  Manny Rayner - Cathy Chua
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]

  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    Created by Manny Rayner
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]

  • Animal Farm
    Created by Manny Rayner - Cathy Chua
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]

  • Why Read?
    Created by Manny Rayner - Cathy Chua - Katia Serdioux

  • Tickertape of Misery, an extract from Scotland Before the Bomb.
    Created by M.J. Nicholls - Manny Rayner
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]

  • Sonnet CXXXVIII, William Shakespeare
    Created by Kirsten Anker - Manny Rayner

  • Daughter's Doll
    Created by Manny Rayner
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]

  • Enoch Soames
    Created by Kirsten Anker - Manny Rayner
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]

• French

  • Tex's French Grammar
    Created by  Cathy Chua

  • Le bonheur
    Created by  Chadi Raheb - Manny Rayner
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]

  • Le petit prince, Le bonheur and Huis clos as one document

• Icelandic

  • Tína fer í frí (Tina Goes on Vacation)
    Created by  Branislav Bedi - Svavar
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]

• ÍTM (Icelandic sign language)

  • Tína fer í frí (Tina Goes on Vacation) Icelandic with ÍTM annotation
    Created by Sigurður Vigfússon - Branislav Bedi

• Danish

  • Kejserens nye klæder (The Emperor's New Clothes)
    Created by  Pernille Hvalsøe - Manny Rayner
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]

  • Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne (The Little Match Girl)
    Created by  Pernille Hvalsøe - Manny Rayner

  • Prinsessen på ærten (The Princess and the Pea)
    Created by  Pernille Hvalsøe - Manny Rayner

  • Kejserens nye klæder, Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne and Prinsessen på ærten as one document

• Farsi

  • چوپان دروغ‌گو (The Boy Who Cried Wolf)
    Created By Elham Akhlaghi - Hanieh Habibi

  • بزبزقندی (The Three Little Kids and the Wolf)
    Created By Elham Akhlaghi - Hanieh Habibi

  • ابن‌سینا و مرد بیمار (Ibn Sina and the Sick Man)
    Created By Elham Akhlaghi - Hanieh Habibi

  • آرش کمانگیر (Arash)
    Created By Elham Akhlaghi - Hanieh Habibi

• Swedish

  • Karlsson på taket, chapter 1 (Karlsson on the Roof) 
    Created by  Manny Rayner

  • Hur gick det sen? (What happened next?)
    Created by  Manny Rayner

  • Kallocain [Readspeaker TTS version]
    Created by  Manny Rayner

• Japanese

  • 100万回生きたねこ (The Cat Who Lived a Million Times)
    Created by Junta Ikeda

• Mandarin

  • 熊和兔子的故事 (The Story of the Bear and the Rabbits)
    Created by Yao Chunlin - Manny Rayner
    [Google TTS version]

• Italian 

  • Dante Alighieri (Three extracts from Dante's Inferno)
    Created by Sabina Sestigiani

• Spanish

  • El Cuento de Pedrito Conejo
    Created By Rebeca López - Roy Lotz - Manny Rayner
    [ReadSpeaker TTS version]

• German

  • poems by Wilhelm Busch
    Created by Matthias Butterweck

  • Der Flüchtling
    Created by Matthias Butterweck

• Middle High German

  • DER NIBELUNGE NÔT
    Created by Matthias Butterweck

• Israeli (Reclaimed Hebrew)

  • Revivalistics : Extract from Revivalistics, Cross-Fertilization and Wellbeing: Awakening Hebrew and Other Sleeping Beauty Languages (forthcoming book by Oxford University Press)
    Created by Ghil'ad Zuckermann

  • הלשון השוֶדית  (The Swedish Tongue) with English as L1
    Created by Ghil'ad Zuckermann

  • הלשון השוֶדית  (Det svenska språket) with Swedish as L1
    Created by Ghil'ad Zuckermann - Harald Berthelsen

• Russian

  • Кролик Питер (Peter Rabbit)
    Created by Ruth Martinez-Lopez

• Latin

  • Lorem ipsum
    Created By Monica Depasquale - Cathy Chua - Manny Rayner

We would like to thank ReadSpeaker for making their software available to us for research purposes and gratefully acknowledge their contributions to the LARA project.