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| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5325 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 17 of 48 30 July 2010 at 7:16am | IP Logged | |||||
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| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5563 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 18 of 48 30 July 2010 at 10:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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And as I understand it, the audio files available on the internet only cover the text work up and not the exercises in the workbooks and the summary quiz in the study guide.
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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 19 of 48 30 July 2010 at 10:49am | IP Logged | |||||
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Again, thanks for the replies. It's good to hear experiences from those who are further
along the line in their studies than I am. Would you say that you saw a big improvement in your listening comprehension from solely watching the FIA video's? I am doing Assimil as well as I said, but the FIA videos are quite enyoable to watch. At the moment, in italian, I'm at the point where I can speak (albeit within a modest vocabulary) quite well but listening and understanding is still a struggle. This is something that I wwant to conquer as quickly as possible in French. I could watch TV shows I suppose but my thinking is that the graded usage of the language in the FIA video's is more suitable to someone at a beginner level. 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 20 of 48 30 July 2010 at 11:44am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes. Most definitely. I was using on-line news resources (audio only) as well but in general they speak more slowly and carefully so I found FIA much better for that. I'm brushing up my French at the moment and I did attempt to run through the series again but I think I've watched them all too many times now, so I've ended up looking for fresh material. 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 21 of 48 30 July 2010 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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That is great news. My whole revival of this thread was to determine whether or not it
was worth the effort of watching the FIA videos without using any other aspect of the course. My own instincts said that I was benefiting from it but knowing that there are others who have adopted a similar approach and have obtained good results just gives me more enthuisiam to carry on. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5563 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 22 of 48 30 July 2010 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The videos are good enough on their own. Before I decided that I was going to do FIA with all the materials (I am a language course obsessive - sometimes I think I am doing the course to complete it, rather than learning the language) I watched the first 13 videos - and found them to be good excellent on their own.
The workbooks can be bought relatively cheaply used but are pretty useless without the audio files (the ones that are not on the internet). I just managed to acquired the tapes second hand from a University library (28X90 minute cassettes - linguaphone eat your heart out!)and am putting them onto MP3 now. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Squiggly Newbie Joined 5229 days ago 20 posts - 35 votes Speaks: German* | Message 23 of 48 30 July 2010 at 8:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It has already been mentioned in several places on this forum but all of the audio for FIA can be downloaded from the below link. The audio is in mp3 format and the lessons are indexed with web pages. Paste the link in your browser or download manager and any spaces in the below URL will need to be removed or else the link will not work.
http://otter.middlebury.edu/ns-media/frenchmedia/french_acti on/action.zip 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5563 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 24 of 48 30 July 2010 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Unless that link has changed, it does not contain the whole audio for FIA - Its missing about 2/3rds per lesson and contains the text work up only (what you are supposed to do directly after watching the video). This is pretty useful in itself but the exercises for the 2 workbooks and the summary quizzes are missing (or at least they were last time I looked)
[EDIT - Yes it does work] Edited by Elexi on 30 July 2010 at 10:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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