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Re: The Nature Method Courses

Postby Remarkablemusician25 » Thu Dec 16, 2021 7:56 am

For German there are two books I believe use the Natural Method : Studien und Plaudereien. First Series by Sigmon M. Stern & Studien Und Plaudereien by Sigmon Martin Stern. They may be in the public domain butI am not entirely sure.
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Re: The Nature Method Courses

Postby Sonjaconjota » Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:42 am

Remarkablemusician25 wrote:For German there are two books I believe use the Natural Method : Studien und Plaudereien. First Series by Sigmon M. Stern & Studien Und Plaudereien by Sigmon Martin Stern. They may be in the public domain but I am not entirely sure.


I've found them online. They are from 1879 respectively 1881, so yes, definitely public domain:

https://archive.org/details/studienundplaud03stergoog/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35797
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Re: The Nature Method Courses

Postby galaxyrocker » Sun Mar 13, 2022 5:03 pm

I've just found out that Aryan Academy, one of the two groups who's done some interesting things with the nature method on YouTube, has started creating a Turkish book. The first edition of the first chapter can be found here:

They apparently have intentions for a Farsi one in the future as well, as can be seen by this image from (what seems to be) their Patreon page.

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Info from Reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearni ... 6ntem_ile/
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Re: The Nature Method Courses

Postby chanchy34 » Thu Mar 17, 2022 6:25 pm

But it is no problem, for copyright, that we can find out the location of the specimens of these lost works or consult with those who are contacted here and if they have them.

I am interested in knowing the location of the Deutsch Book that was shown on the previous topic but it was erased, that does not represent any problem for copyright.

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whoever published it, please contact me by private message here.
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Re: The Nature Method Courses

Postby mokibao » Wed Apr 27, 2022 3:57 pm

So it seems AyanAcademy has somehow gotten hold of the Nature Method books for German and Danish and started recording them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19fnqKFWUTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWx-h3A_2rA

Sadly in the comment section they say the Russian volumes are still only partially available. But still, very interesting developments.
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Re: The Nature Method Courses

Postby galaxyrocker » Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:32 pm

mokibao wrote:So it seems AyanAcademy has somehow gotten hold of the Nature Method books for German and Danish and started recording them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19fnqKFWUTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWx-h3A_2rA

Sadly in the comment section they say the Russian volumes are still only partially available. But still, very interesting developments.


I actually have copies of both the Danish and the German volumes. I was able to request the Danish volumes via ILL at the university I'm at, and then scanned them and was able to use that to get the German volumes. So it's likely the copies they got stem from that somewhere along the line, unless they managed to find a second set of copies of the German one. I'm loathe to share them myself as the copyright situation is unknown on them (even if it appears they are orphaned works). As for the Russian, I've also managed to get the "Russian Alphabet by the Nature Method" and have a copy of that as well, though it doesn't appear the actual Russian volumes are anywhere to be found apart from the one I found at Michigan State University's library which is now floating around.
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Re: The Nature Method Courses

Postby polllyglot » Sat Apr 30, 2022 10:21 pm

Remarkablemusician25 wrote:For German there are two books I believe use the Natural Method : Studien und Plaudereien. First Series by Sigmon M. Stern & Studien Und Plaudereien by Sigmon Martin Stern. They may be in the public domain butI am not entirely sure.


There is also a simiar book called "Deutsch für Ausländer" which is also available on YouTube by Ayan Academy. They have some books in Spanish following the same method.
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Re: The Nature Method Courses

Postby mokibao » Mon May 02, 2022 6:33 pm

So let's update the recap according to recent developments:

Courses that have been completely digitized: Latin, French, Italian, English, German, Danish

Courses that have been partially digitized: Russian

Courses known to exist: Spanish

Inspired complete courses: Esperanto

Inspired partial courses: Japanese, Ancient Greek, Turkish
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Re: The Nature Method Courses

Postby zenmonkey » Tue May 03, 2022 6:48 am

Persian? Or is this a different editor?
https://books.google.fr/books/about/Per ... edir_esc=y

Note this link does not share the book content.
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Re: The Nature Method Courses

Postby galaxyrocker » Tue May 03, 2022 10:37 am

zenmonkey wrote:Persian? Or is this a different editor?
https://books.google.fr/books/about/Per ... edir_esc=y

Note this link does not share the book content.


There is another series of books out there that use "natural method" but are really just phrase books with English phonetics under it. They're not quite the same as how the Nature Method books work. I've looked into a few of them before, and I think this one is part of that series.
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