Cortina Academy of Languages

Cortina Academy of Languages A New York firm, established to give language instruction by Rafael Diaz de la Cortina, in 1882. The firm was the first to record language instruction courses, beginning in 1889 with Spanish in Twenty Lessons, on Edison cylinders. Later records appeared on Columbia Graphophone records and U-S Phonograph Co. cylinders, as well as Edison cylinders. Discs were used instead of cylinders after 1913.