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| sprengel Newbie Japan Joined 5538 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English | Message 25 of 171 04 October 2009 at 5:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Super ! Thank you.
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| delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7178 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German | Message 26 of 171 09 October 2009 at 8:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I tried downloading the Indonesian DLI course but couldn't open the zip file anyone else had this trouble?
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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6376 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 27 of 171 09 October 2009 at 8:43am | IP Logged | ||
Did you do this yet?
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| Struan Newbie United States Joined 5530 days ago 9 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English Studies: Korean | Message 28 of 171 10 October 2009 at 10:10am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the uploads.
The Korean audio doesn't seem to be from DLI. It comes from "Integrated Korean", and the content is exactly the same as the one found here http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/korean101.html Do DLI audio materials for Korean exist? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yeandrix20 Newbie Costa Rica Joined 5487 days ago 5 posts - 6 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 29 of 171 16 November 2009 at 5:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello. Is there any chance of re-uploading the headstart courses, mainly the one for Tagalog? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Heinrich S. Groupie Germany Joined 6933 days ago 63 posts - 85 votes Studies: French | Message 30 of 171 30 November 2009 at 5:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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DLI Japanese, anyone?
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| maaku Senior Member United States Joined 5571 days ago 359 posts - 562 votes Speaks: English* | Message 31 of 171 30 November 2009 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Would be nice if there was such a thing. Let me head this one off at the pass and list all the DLI basic courses that we know about:
Albanian Belarusan Cantonese Chinese Mandarin Czech Dari Dutch Egyptian Arabic Filipino French Greek Haitian Creole Hungarian Iraqi Arabic Korean Maranao MSA Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Syrian Arabic Tausug Vietnamese 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| emptysilo Newbie United States Joined 5471 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* | Message 32 of 171 01 December 2009 at 8:44am | IP Logged | ||
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I have taken a look at the Indonesian and Vietnamese course material here. First, thanks to fat-tony for the material.
Indonesian: The books look complete except for a couple of missing pages in volume 1 and they are the revised edition with the modern spelling too, a plus. The audio has some background static that increases and decreases in intensity depending on the voices. Also the audio is only for section 1. Introduction of New Materials, 2. Dialogue and '3.' (actually 7.) Vocabulary. What is missing for the audio is section 4. Pattern Drills and 5. Readings (not too important here). The books does mention in the Homework section, a dialogue tape and tapes of the exercises, but I have listed what is available from the download. You can probably do some of the drills yourself, although, maybe for the same reason we don't have tapes, the answers to some of the drills are not clear from the question and direction (such as questions about history and which department is bigger). Probably designed for the teacher to quiz students on acceptable answers. The Indonesian text does have stories which are pretty interesting starting in book 2, which I consider a definite plus. The short explanations and the lack of audio exercises makes the course probably insufficient by itself, but it is good review for listening for someone with previous experience. I have worked through 15 lessons the last few days and find some new vocabulary and grammar points helpful along with the increase listening and comprehension practice. I am curious is anyone is using it for a beginning course and is feeling good about the results. A final note here, the course has some grammar that I was taught was incorrect/"looked down upon" and an "excessive" use of personal pronouns at the beginning so far. Maybe someone could comment who is proficient in Indonesian on the material. Vietnamese: The audio has similar quality problems but, like the Indonesian tapes, I find that >95% is pretty clear from what I have heard. The books, like the Indonesian course are thick. However, I don't think this would be a good beginning course since there is no pronunciation practice available, audio drills, or any grammar explanation. Again, like the Indonesian course, the audio does not cover all the sections and also, the lesson 2 audio is missing. In the lesson the "new vocabulary" section is covered which makes of >80% of the tape, meaning sometimes 50 minutes a lesson is just a reading of the line by line material covered in the "new vocabulary". Then the dialogue is covered. Again, like the Indonesian course, the drills (exercises) are not on the tape, but unlike the Indonesian course, the drills look like they could have been made into audio. Finally, a comprehension section is read. Unlike the Indonesian material, the vocabulary list in the back is not on the tape. I don't know about the rest of the courses, but if anyone has used them I would like to hear about them even though I will never use them. Again, I don't think these materials I have looked at will be good beginning courses but I think they are excellent review and listening practice. BTW, the Indonesian course comes with about 28 hours of audio and the Vietnamese about 36 hours and A LOT of pages. Hope this was helpful! Thanks again fat tony for the material, I really appreciate it. Edited by emptysilo on 01 December 2009 at 8:46am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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