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| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4688 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes  Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 1 of 7 01 September 2013 at 9:39am | IP Logged |
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So, I'm considering tackling Turkish in the next few months and I was wondering if anyone had any experience with FSI Turkish. I know the FSI courses vary quite a bit in their quality depending on the language and I was curious about the content, accuracy and overall usefulness of the FSI Turkish course.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2 of 7 01 September 2013 at 10:07am | IP Logged |
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I haven't tried this one. But FSI is usually super thorough. Only problem may be the
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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5261 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 3 of 7 01 September 2013 at 2:16pm | IP Logged |
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I remember seeing posts that talked about some of the vocabulary being out of date, but that being not such a big deal. Check out Daristani's post on this HTLAL thread: FSI Turkish and also this thread may be of interest: How outdated is FSI Turkish?.
Outdated vocabulary in a course, to me, is not that big a deal because I am not just using a course. I am using several other resources at the same time besides the course, bilingual texts, songs, children's books, listening to the news with a transcript, using a tutor/language exchange, etc. FSI, is very thorough and you can't beat the price- free! You may have to unlearn some dated vocabulary but that's a small price to pay for such a resource. If you use other resources as well, you'll get the updated vocabulary you'll need. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5864 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 4 of 7 02 September 2013 at 12:30am | IP Logged |
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I believe the first half of the course only teaches around 500 words, it's more focused on getting you used to the structure/grammar of Turkish. In the second half, once you're a little more familiar with the structure of Turkish they spend more time on vocabulary, introducing another 2000 or so words. I haven't done the course either and can't remember where i read that, maybe in the student text?
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| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4688 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 5 of 7 02 September 2013 at 2:55am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the responses everyone. I really appreciate it. Sounds like a decent course to get my feet wet and gain a solid foundation in the grammar and core vocab. I will be supplementing with some other resources as well.
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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5864 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 6 of 7 02 September 2013 at 11:10am | IP Logged |
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I'd be interested to know how it goes for you if you do decide to follow through the course :)
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| Przemek Hexaglot Senior Member Poland multigato.blogspot.c Joined 6474 days ago 107 posts - 174 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, SpanishC2, Italian, Portuguese, French Studies: Turkish, Hindi, Arabic (Written) | Message 7 of 7 06 September 2013 at 12:29pm | IP Logged |
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I personally use FSI for Turkish and I think it's very good. It covers all the main
grammatical issues and TONS of audio material to drill what you're learning 1 person has voted this message useful |
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