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| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5385 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 9 of 12 24 July 2015 at 1:52pm | IP Logged |
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Regarding how to use FSI... when starting a lesson just open the book and start the audio and listen straight through while doing the drills. Then, when you feel like you can do it without looking at the book, just play the audio.
One good thing about a comprehensive course like FSI is that it covers everything. If you complete the entire course you will hit just about everything you need to know and they will present it in roughly the right proportion. You will still have problems after, but everything will be there. I say this because I would not worry about anything in particular you don't get at first. If you go through a comprehensive course and then get a lot of exposure to the language in general it will come. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| buylow12 Newbie United States TotalTravelers.ComRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3427 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 10 of 12 24 July 2015 at 11:07pm | IP Logged |
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OK so you would advise starting at the beginning
and going all the way through rather than attempting to pick specific topics from FSI? My worry is that it'll be much to easy for my level but from what I understand it starts right from the get go fairly difficult from what I've read elsewhere. Pimsuelar was actually extremely easy starting out but since Duolingo doesn't really cover basics such as introduction, ordering food, etc. It was still helpful, even if I already knew the vocabulary. In fact I found myself using statements from pimsuelar in my speech practice rather others I had previously learned. I think it provided some automaticty(not sure that's a word, lol). However if I had already covered those phrases I think it would have been a waste, at least the first two levels of so. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5385 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 11 of 12 25 July 2015 at 4:17am | IP Logged |
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Yes, I would advise to start right at lesson 3 of FSI (the first two lessons that focus on pronunciation can be skipped). I had done Pimsleur 1-3, Michel Thomas and Assimil before starting in on FSI. The content of the lessons will be "easy" for you, but actually doing the drills is well worth doing it. FSI, for me, was more about drilling the grammar than actually learning. It just makes it natural and automatic.
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| buylow12 Newbie United States TotalTravelers.ComRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3427 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 12 25 July 2015 at 11:46am | IP Logged |
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Yea, I think that's what I need. I tend to speak
fairly slowly, especially when it comes to conjugations I haven't used extensively in speech yet. I feel myself improving in fluidity every few classes but I think that might really speed up the improvement. I had a great class today. It's crazy how one day you feel like your going nowhere and then the next you feel like you could be on the cusp of fluidity. My tutor did say that although I speak slowly I can cover a much wider range of topics then a lot of the other people he works with. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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