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Submitted by mohammad78 on 13 April, 2011 - 08:48. Iran
hi
Why do you omit the audio file of it? And why don't you consider the internet speed in some counties is so slow that we can't use the video? why don't you make the video downloadable? you always have some silly excuses about that. I'm very disappointed with you.
Submitted by AdamJK on 13 April, 2011 - 12:30. Poland
Hi Mohammad,
I'm sorry to hear you are upset with the service we provide on the website.
Although you might think our reasons are 'silly', it's very important for us to stay legal. If we made some of our videos downloadable we would be breaking the law in connection to copyright.
We know that people in different countries have different speeds of internet access. Some people can watch everything, others can only read text. Some people can only download video, others can't even do that. We try to make LearnEnglish materials available to all of these different types of people, but there will always be situations where some have better access than others.
We do plan to make more videos available for download and provide audio files with videos. However, we're a small team and there are many areas of the site that need work. For example, at the moment we are working hard to produce five 'Word on the Street' pages every week.
We appreciate your feedback and hope that you will understand why it's not yet possible to make some files downloadable.
Best wishes,
Adam
The LearnEnglish Team
Submitted by yzzrl on 13 April, 2011 - 04:07. China
I'm going to UK to attend commencement of my son in Cambridge university next month.This video is very important for me .thaks for Britishcouncil.keep job!!!
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The LearnEnglish Team
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hi
Why do you omit the audio file of it? And why don't you consider the internet speed in some counties is so slow that we can't use the video? why don't you make the video downloadable? you always have some silly excuses about that. I'm very disappointed with you.
team
Hi Mohammad,
I'm sorry to hear you are upset with the service we provide on the website.
Although you might think our reasons are 'silly', it's very important for us to stay legal. If we made some of our videos downloadable we would be breaking the law in connection to copyright.
We know that people in different countries have different speeds of internet access. Some people can watch everything, others can only read text. Some people can only download video, others can't even do that. We try to make LearnEnglish materials available to all of these different types of people, but there will always be situations where some have better access than others.
We do plan to make more videos available for download and provide audio files with videos. However, we're a small team and there are many areas of the site that need work. For example, at the moment we are working hard to produce five 'Word on the Street' pages every week.
We appreciate your feedback and hope that you will understand why it's not yet possible to make some files downloadable.
Best wishes,
Adam
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi
Thanks for ur reply and for the new section (Word on the Street). At least , please make available the audio for any video.
thanks
team
Hi Mohammad,
Thanks for your understanding. We will try to make the audio available as soon as possible.
Best wishes,
Adam
The LearnEnglish Team
I'm going to UK to attend commencement of my son in Cambridge university next month.This video is very important for me .thaks for Britishcouncil.keep job!!!
this video is so interested...! it helped me understand about the UK currency