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| J17789 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4719 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Studies: German | Message 1 of 5 17 September 2014 at 10:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Everyone,
I have been studying German for a while and have considered using the German FSI course. I am just slightly worried about if the tapes use native speakers or not. Could you please tell me if this is the case? THanks 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4254 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes  Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 5 17 September 2014 at 11:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well I've not heard of an FSI course that didn't have native speakers.
I had a quick listen of the German basic and all the speakers sounded native to my ear. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Speakeasy Senior Member Canada Joined 4053 days ago 507 posts - 1098 votes Studies: German | Message 3 of 5 18 September 2014 at 1:47am | IP Logged | ||
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The dialogs of the FSI Basic German Course were most definitely recorded by native-speakers, as were the recordings of all of the other FSI and DLI courses. In fact, it would be rather rare event to come across a language course where the dialogs were not recorded by native-speakers ... uh, with exception of Michel Thomas who somehow got away with recording the dialogs himself, despite his atrocious accent in German, French, Spanish, and Italian. He even developed a very loyal base of supporters who justified his unique practice of not using native-speakers!
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| Mutant Groupie United States Joined 3912 days ago 45 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German | Message 4 of 5 18 September 2014 at 1:00pm | IP Logged | ||
The Thai course reportedly has non-native speakers, but I don't speak Thai so I couldn't tell you if that's accurate or not. Edited by Mutant on 18 September 2014 at 1:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5866 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 5 of 5 24 September 2014 at 10:54am | IP Logged | ||
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I believe all the speakers are native speakers of German, but i have heard people complain about one of the male speakers sounding like an American speaker and speaks rather fast, i don't really remember noticing that though. The biggest downside for me is that it was just so mindnumbingly boring at times. There were lots of government/military words and the basic format was just boring. The second half of the course consists of a lot of translation dialogs requiring you to have the book with you when you do them. After a couple chapters of that, i just read through the dialogs and the grammar notes of the remaining chapters. I did the French FSI at the same time and while not as good as the Spanish course was alright, i found the German course as a whole pretty boring though.
If your only concern is about native speakers, i think you can go ahead with the course. It covers a lot of material and will help you a lot if you can get through it. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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