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| Fenn Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4889 days ago 51 posts - 119 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 9 of 16 02 May 2012 at 12:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Wow, i knew about FSI but this is incredible. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 10 of 16 02 May 2012 at 1:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Swedish and German course which I have started (and plan to finish as soon as I have
more time) are really good. Sure, some of the vocabulary may be a bit old and you won't find so many dialogues about cigarretes in modern courses, but the grammar teaching and drill exercises are awesome. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7142 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 11 of 16 02 May 2012 at 4:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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One aspect of the FSI courses site that may no longer be known to many forum members is that it was originally set up as a result of discussions on this HTLAL forum. Forum member gdfellows (who hasn't been here in years) first set up a site to host FSI materials, and various of us donated FSI-origin materials we had for copying and hosting. He ran the site for a while, and then it went down, but VagabondPilgrim had copied the material and set up the current site, which has since been expanded with contributions over time from other users.
Some people, because of the name of the site and due to the presumed "public domain" nature of the materials it provides, seem to have the belief, despite disclaimers on the site itself, that FSI has made the materials available to the public. This is not the case; it's been a purely private and voluntary effort from the start, and it had its inception in discussions of the FSI materials on this very forum. Also, it was similarly a discussion on this forum that led to David Freedel's "Princeton Russian Course" being put on line (with Freedel's permission), after Princeton took it down, by forum member josht. And the "So You Want to Learn a Language" site mentioned above is also by forum member unzum. I'm sure I'm missing other noteworthy examples, for which I apologize, but I just wanted to make it clear how very valuable the HTLAL forum has been in terms of the spinoffs it's produced for language learners. 21 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sebed Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4737 days ago 12 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Korean, Esperanto | Message 12 of 16 02 May 2012 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | ||
Wow. This is so much like Christmas. I'm going to have a smattering in so many utterly useless languages. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 13 of 16 02 May 2012 at 9:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Which ones do you consider useless? :-)
Thanks, Daristani. I hadn't known that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6227 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 14 of 16 02 May 2012 at 9:56pm | IP Logged | ||
Wait! If you REALLY want to waste time, don't forget about the DLI site! http://jlu.wbtrain.com/sumtotal/language/DLI%20basic%20cours es/ They are like the FSI courses with twice as much audio (some of it very, very poor quality unfortunately...) Edited by liddytime on 02 May 2012 at 9:58pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sebed Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4737 days ago 12 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Korean, Esperanto | Message 15 of 16 03 May 2012 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | ||
Well, let's just say I'm not expecting huge amounts of Fula speaking practice in the near future :) By the way, Liddytime, thanks for the link. I will definitely be using it over the summer. Just one question: Do you know what 'SOLT' stands for? It seems to be used all over the site, but I can't find any information on its meaning. I assume it's just the PDF file. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6227 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 16 of 16 03 May 2012 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm pretty sure it stands for "Soldier Orientation Language Training". correction: I found out it stands for " Special Operations Language Training (SOLT)" Edited by liddytime on 03 May 2012 at 7:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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