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Cavesa
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 Message 17 of 20
30 October 2013 at 7:46pm | IP Logged 
Yeah, I hadn't mentioned progressive just becuse it isn't a course per se.

DaraghM wrote:
I would add to my original list the complete “French in Action – 3rd
Edition”. This course covers a lot more vocabulary than FSI courses. I did a quick word
count from the dictionary at the back and it comes to about 10,000 words for the entire
series. Most of the vocabulary is contained within the numerous reading passages in the
main text book. The drills aren’t as comprehensive as FSI, but it still comes to over 100
hours of audio.


Sounds awesome. Is the 3rd edition much different from the previous ones?
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DaraghM
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31 October 2013 at 2:58pm | IP Logged 
Unfortunately, I don’t have a second edition to compare it with, but the third edition has numerous articles that were written after 2012, from various publications such as Francoscope and Le Monde. I was originally going to steer clear of it as the FIA videos are very basic. The additional course content is quite advanced relative to the associated lesson . They use tenses like the subjunctive, imperfect and conditional which aren’t taught until the second half of the course .
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DaraghM
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31 October 2013 at 2:59pm | IP Logged 
Unfortunately, I don’t have a second edition to compare it with, but the third edition has numerous articles that were written after 2012, from various publications such as Francoscope and Le Monde. I was originally going to steer clear of it as the FIA videos are very basic. The additional course content is quite advanced relative to the associated lesson . They use tenses like the subjunctive, imperfect and conditional which aren’t taught until the second half of the course.
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Cavesa
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31 October 2013 at 7:51pm | IP Logged 
Thanks, DaraghM. That is actually a very valuable piece of information no matter you
didn't compare the editions side by side.

It kind of breaks the myth of the FIA being only basic and being too old and outdated.
Thanks.


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