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playadom
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 Message 129 of 672
22 January 2012 at 5:52am | IP Logged 
Hmm, I'd really like to do the Skype sessions, but they're too early: I won't be
available until about 12:30 PM New York time...
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aloysius
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 Message 130 of 672
22 January 2012 at 1:58pm | IP Logged 
I'm flexible with regard to the scheduling of future seesions.

Maybe we could make some use of the FSI FAST course next time? I haven't had a look at
it myself yet but it's freely available with audio

here

and in a different format

here.

Quoting from the introduction: "We want you to leave here with the ability to face,
without hesitation, any number of situations you will encounter in day-to-day life in
those cities where you will live, work and visit". So it might be useful for finding
suitable dialogues to use as earlier discussed in this thread.


/aloysius
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drsarvo
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 Message 131 of 672
22 January 2012 at 10:17pm | IP Logged 
Hi, sorry I couldn't make it but I need to have a look on the skype manual. I have already two more
contacts on skype. I hope next skype session will go smoother. I agree with the suggestion to use FSI
course. I'd go further and suggest we pick a lesson of a textbook, work on it during the week, use it for
dialogue practice, and also we choose a text for reading and vocabulary drill. It would be useful for doubt
clarification.
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Solfrid Cristin
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 Message 132 of 672
22 January 2012 at 10:32pm | IP Logged 
drsarvo wrote:
Hi, sorry I couldn't make it but I need to have a look on the skype manual. I have already two more
contacts on skype. I hope next skype session will go smoother. I agree with the suggestion to use FSI
course. I'd go further and suggest we pick a lesson of a textbook, work on it during the week, use it for
dialogue practice, and also we choose a text for reading and vocabulary drill. It would be useful for doubt
clarification.


Hi, I don't think there was anything wrong at your end. I saw you tried to call me, but if I had answered, then I would have been cut off from the rest of the conversation with the others. I think we all need to make sure everyone had added all the others before next time.
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 Message 133 of 672
23 January 2012 at 6:57am | IP Logged 
My time zone might make it quite hard for me to take part in the Skype sessions, I'm at GMT +9... but my schedules can be pretty flexible, so I'll see what I can do for next time.
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Tecktight
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 Message 134 of 672
25 January 2012 at 7:58am | IP Logged 
@drsarvo I'm sorry about the Skype session. I don't know why it wasn't working for you :-/

@jellyfish We might be able to coordinate multiple Skype sessions with different groups of people, if necessary, if
we all can't make it to one. Once or twice a week, say, we can potentially host a session, and we can vote on times.
The idea being that at least every 2 weeks or so there is at least one Skype session each team member can make.

Speaking of, I typed up the first set of диалоги from Урок 1. PM me your e-mail addresses and I will e-mail you the
document.

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drsarvo
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 Message 135 of 672
25 January 2012 at 4:04pm | IP Logged 
@tecktight: I think it's a great idea to schedule different skype sessions. I vote for Monday afternoon, say around 1900 hours, Central Standard Time (I think it's -6 hours GMT).
I'd be glad to receive dialogue from lession number one, so that we can practice in next skype session. My mail is: drsarvo@yahoo.com.mx
I also propose to exchange texts that we can read in the sessions, we could exchange them via e-mail a fex days prior to the sessions. No matter if they are elemental dialogues or texts from textbooks; if you have the audio of these texts we can listen to it and exchange opinions about pronuntiation.
That could be done also with poems and songs, we could agree in a determined song, search the lyrics in internet and listen to it in youtube.
I propose a poem: телефон, by Корней Чуковский. There is even a video in youtube so that you can listen to a Russian actor reciting it, it's very funny. You can find the text in hobbitniya.ru, it includes some delicious vignettes.
And a song: Katyusha. Find the lyrics in marxists.org (including English translation).
How do you like my proposals?
I hope to read your opinions.
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 Message 136 of 672
25 January 2012 at 4:06pm | IP Logged 
I think -6 GMT at 19h wouldn't work for those in Europe.


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