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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 9 of 48 17 March 2010 at 12:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7179 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German | Message 10 of 48 17 March 2010 at 6:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yes I found up to lesson 18 but the rest... :(
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| Jadoo1989 Diglot Groupie Joined 5631 days ago 51 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Irish, French | Message 11 of 48 17 March 2010 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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if you don't, message me and I'll see if I can help you find what you're looking for.
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| magictom123 Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5591 days ago 272 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 12 of 48 29 July 2010 at 5:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Is anyone currently working through this. I am using Assimil New French with ease but
have started watching and rewatching the French in action videos. I have the audiofiles but havent really bothered to go through them. What do you suppose would be the benefit of just watching the videos alongside doing assimil. I am only only lesson 3-4 of FIA and lesson 13 of assimil. At this point, there seems to be an overlap in quite a bit of the vocab used. Are the audiofiles worth while. I have listened to one and it seems to be inda pimsleur-ish and a bit dull - maybe I am wrong though. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| skchi Groupie United States Joined 5743 days ago 57 posts - 86 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 13 of 48 29 July 2010 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm working through the FIA videos right now, and I just finished lesson 12. I've taken French classes for a few years, so I'm not a total beginner.
I thought that the first 5 lessons or so were fairly easy (they basically repeated a lot of stuff that I remember from my French classes). After that, the lessons seem to quickly get more difficult. I looked through my notes, and I wrote down many more words and phrases for lessons 10, 11, and 12 than I did for the previous lessons. One thing that initially disappointed me was the story (or lack of it). You probably noticed that the first few lessons are basically just an introduction. You see the professor in the classroom, talking to the students. The professor tells them that they're going to put together a story and describes the characters, etc. That "introduction" part lasted for about 10 lessons. I'm finally to the point when the story is taking off. I'm excited about that, because I assume that a big part of the appeal of FIA is the continuing story and the characters. So far, I definitely feel that the videos are valuable. I learn enough vocab and grammar in each 30 minute video to make it worth my time. Also, I really need to work on listening comprehension, and the videos are certainly helping me with that. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| magictom123 Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5591 days ago 272 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 14 of 48 29 July 2010 at 11:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks for the response. Yeah, I really feel that listening comprehension is what I am
going to gain most from this course. Of course, the video's include a specific instruction element alongside the overall effect of immersion, as today's video explains the difference between articles defini and indefini but I feel MT and assimil are where this will sink in properly for me. I think by reinforcing Assimil with FIA, I am gaining a good passive understanding from the language due to the vocab and expressions being displayed on screen. I just wonder what other people are doing who may only have access to the videos to get the maximum from the material. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5325 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 15 of 48 30 July 2010 at 4:41am | IP Logged | |||||
Then it shouldn't be illegal to torrent, so get µtorrent (or another torrent app) and download this. If it's not, I'll take down the link. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7101 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 16 of 48 30 July 2010 at 7:01am | IP Logged | |||||
It's not so much doing as did. I used them precisely for what you've already noted - listening comprehension. The rate of speech and differing voices is ideal for that. I didn't have access to any of the audio or textbooks at the time, so I just went over and over them until I got every word. I had a transcript of the first 26 lessons which helped as well - you can now get one for all 52. @John: I think that's a torrent for the videos rather than the one mentioned above. If you want a summary of what's available online, take a look here 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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