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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7203 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 113 of 451 07 June 2014 at 10:37am | IP Logged | |||||
Awesome accomplishment Peter! I'm curious how you integrated the book into your studies with FSI French. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5474 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 114 of 451 07 June 2014 at 12:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks Luke, The book which I believe is exactly like online FSI French is a print-out of all the audio, some very brief explanations and a few text only exercises, as far as I can tell it is exactly the same as the FSI online stuff... Sorry you prob already knew that, so onto your question. All I did was refer to it as a guide, verifying what I was hearing was what I thought I was hearing, or in some cases to verify what I couldn't work out what I was hearing. Although, for the most part it really was like an audio course as I certainly didn't look at the book continuously. However I felt more comfortable using the book as a guide so that I could refer to anything in the book or in a dictionary if required (knowing what the word was from print). The only written activities I did amounted to writing answers to the written exercises (ie I didn't write out the audio-based exercises), and I added any new words I was unfamiliar with to my French SRS flashcard deck, which wasn't that many. Then why do the course? Well it was really valuable in working on accent, rhythm, pace, and listening. As well as increasing one's confidence with an array of phrases and conjugations that I hadn't practised before despite being aware of them. As a side note I didn't move on from any of the exercises before I felt like I had not made any errors. This meant the early units I only had to go through many exercises once, units 3 & 4 prob progressed to me doing some activities twice and a few more than that and the last units I was repeating more than that generally speaking. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7203 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 115 of 451 07 June 2014 at 12:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks Peter,
That sounds a lot like how I've done it. I haven't started putting FSI vocabulary in Anki yet, but as you said, there haven't been that many unknown words. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4907 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 116 of 451 13 June 2014 at 2:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You're kind of inspiring me to get back to FSI. I last left it in March in the middle of
Unit 7. From my experience up to that point, it will be really worthwhile to complete the whole thing. But I actually think giving myself time between units to allow the material to seep in, then reviewing the previous unit before starting the new one, will be more effective over time. Hmmm.... I'm really thinking while writing here.... perhaps I should set a goal to complete one unit per month. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7203 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 117 of 451 13 June 2014 at 3:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
I agree wholeheartedly and happen to be in the middle of Unit 7 myself. Tape 7.6 I believe, which has a lot of object pronouns. Je vous écoute, etc. A unit a month is not a crazy goal. In a way, I think of FSI as covering the grammar of 2 years of French at the university, in that by the end of the 2nd year, one should be learning nuance to grammar, rather than the basics. So, 24 units, 24 months. Allons-y! En route! Bonne route! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4907 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 118 of 451 13 June 2014 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
I will if you will! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5014 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 119 of 451 13 June 2014 at 6:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
So, should we start a Super FSI Challenge or something? :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5474 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 120 of 451 14 June 2014 at 10:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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Glad to serve as some inspiration... And yes I think you guys should do FSI. One course isn't going to
interfere much with your SC. I made a list of my French courses the other day... it's kind of scary (hence why I took Jeffers advice at the beginning of the SC and have returned to doing my courses along with some SC activity at the same time). This list is only courses I haven't completed (altho I have completed Colloquial French before but am not reviewing it). The 3 graded levels i've categorized into are just my idea to simply break the list up a little. The DAUNTING LIST!!! NIVEAU DÉBUTANT Colloquial French Teach Yourself Get Started in French Living Language 1 Fluenz French 3 Teach Yourself Complete French Living Language 2 Tell Me More FSI niveau 2 (unité 7-12) Assimil NFWE Teach Yourself Perfect Your French Fluenz French 4 Living Language 3 Production écrite B1/B2 NIVEAU MOYEN Conversational French 20 Lessons Cortina Method Fluenz French 5 Hugo French Advanced FSI niveau 3 (unité 13-18) Assimil Using French Colloquial French 2 Préparation à l'examen du DELF B2 Réussir le DELF B2 Activités pour le CECR niv. B2 NIVEAU SUPÉRIEUR Tell Me More (Business/advanced) FSI niveau 4 (unité 19-24) Barron's Mastering French Vocab. Assimil Business French Ultimate French Review & Practise Ultimate FR Verb Review & Practise Street French 1 Street French 2 French Verb Mastery Advanced French Grammar Vis-à-vis FIA Production écrite niveaux C1/C2 Réussir le DALF C1 et C2 ----- edit: Audio courses yet to complete: Piimsleur 3 Pimsleur 4 Rocket French Premium Plus Rocket French Platinum Bien-dire (various audio CDs) Fluenz French Audio CDs Also French magazines: Think French Bien-dire Other Subscription to "Yabla" (online videos) Edited by PeterMollenburg on 14 June 2014 at 10:17am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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