Thursday, September 19, 2019

41 Stories

A couple friends and I recently rerecorded the stories from this book '41 Short Stories About Life in Mauritania, Especially Life in Nouakchott' (PDF of the original notebook available here).

As stated on the archive.org description: 
"A book for intermediate learners of the Hassaniya Arabic dialect spoken primarily in Mauritania. It contains short stories and proverbs in Hassaniya written by Kaber ould Beye and English translations by Dave Penney."
 
Here's the link to the recordings of the Hassaniya text read by my Mauritanian friends Thami ould Sheik (stories 1-21) and Lebatt Elbachir (stories 22-41): 41 Stories Recordings

Neither the book nor the recordings are without error, but I tried to edit the recordings to make them as useful as possible for an intermediate learner. Some are read very quickly!



Story 11 in Hassaniya and Englsih