Aesop's Fables Multi-Lingual, 1996

Item — Box: CFC CDs Box 1

Identifier: CFC2021.0352.1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1996

Extent

1 CDs : CD-ROM. "Learn nine different languages!" For Windows & Mac. Storyrom: Red Horse Production.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Here is the original edition later packaged as "Learn 9 Languages with Aesop's Fables" produced in 2009 by Selectsoft. While the art on the jewel box and disc are different, the contents of the disc are exactly the same. Here is a tip: if the disc is hard to play, open it and double-click "Storyrom." As I wrote about the later version, this clever approach allows for hearing or reading in all nine languages. One can switch language within the cartoon panels for a given story. The first two stories are TH and GGE. I found the German and French, as well as the English, to be clearly enunciated and pleasantly idiomatic. Again, I did not find the way to see a menu of stories or to move easily from one story to another. The disc confirms my sense that fables are a good way to get into a new language. I have done it myself!