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Re:Podcasts are my new Wikipedia by rodrigo_b on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @10:53PM (#29103204)
Are you looking for anything in particular? I wouldn't mind recording myself reading a couple Wikipedia articles. I'm a native speaker from Argentina.
Re:Podcasts are my new Wikipedia by wrycoder on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:38AM (#29106371)
I’m looking for texts at a beginner or intermediate level, read by native speakers, which have not been abridged.

For example, I have a dual language text of Hesse’s Damien. I found an audiobook on Amazon, but it has been abridged, to the point that individual sentences have been changed - with words eliminated! That makes it very difficult to follow text while listening.

I’ll see if Librivox, mentioned above, has a copy. Thanks!

What I’m trying to avoid is starting to read Spanish with an English hybridized with Latin pronunciation running in my head. I can halfway understand written Spanish already, so I figure that a few weeks following audiobooks with a text would be very helpful to getting a good start on a proper accent.