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| Sebed Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4737 days ago 12 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Korean, Esperanto | Message 1 of 16 01 May 2012 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've just found this:
http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php Is this a well-known material? As far as I can work out, it seems to take the learner to conversational ability in any language listed along the side. Completely for free. Is this true? If it's as good as I think it seems to be, why isn't everyone raving about it? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5128 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 16 01 May 2012 at 8:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, it's true. FSI is often talked about here in the forum. It's a well-liked program by a lot of people here.
It's free because it was created by US government employees on the taxpayers' dime, which means it can't carry a copyright. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sebed Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4737 days ago 12 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Korean, Esperanto | Message 3 of 16 01 May 2012 at 8:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh. My. God.
I think the amount of time I spend on the internet is about to quadruple. Edited by Sebed on 01 May 2012 at 8:42pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5727 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 4 of 16 01 May 2012 at 9:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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You can download the material, you know.
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| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4699 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 5 of 16 01 May 2012 at 9:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Only a rather bad textbook for Japanese there though.
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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4686 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 6 of 16 01 May 2012 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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A number of years back I used to see these courses for sale in bookstores--maybe they still sell them--but now for the most part you can download all the content for free. The FSI Hebrew was hard for me to work with for various reasons, but FSI courses have a serious following around here, and the price is now absolutely unbeatable.
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 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5207 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 16 02 May 2012 at 7:38am | IP Logged | ||
The "search" feature, found via the button in the banner at the top of your Htlal page, allows three types of searches: "text" search, Google searching, and by tag. FSI (Programs) is a tag used in 551 threads. Additionally, there's a very useful "100 best posts" tab for those search results (next to the tab for the 551 threads). One of my favourite posts is the first one in that list: "Lessons learned from 50 years ...". I have a printout of it on the wall near my study area. Enjoy your FSI course. (Though I don't recommend the Italian. I own and have tried some of the French. It's quite thorough, though some people may find it a tad dry. But given the price, you have nothing to lose by trying it out.) Edited by songlines on 03 May 2012 at 5:49pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 8 of 16 02 May 2012 at 11:28am | IP Logged | ||
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If you are surprised you shall check sywtlal
"This page contains 2, 396 instructional language e-books for 428 languages. " All free and legal. Including DLI course which have similar approach to FSI, but have more pages (Korean course if downloaded all the volumes together has around 2000 pages) I must say though that I don't like the 'learn-the-whole-dialogue' approach. It's for people who take 6 hours class everyday in the language. 6 persons have voted this message useful |
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