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| unzum Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom soyouwanttolearnalan Joined 6849 days ago 371 posts - 478 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 9 of 22 23 June 2008 at 9:13am | IP Logged | |||||
For those interested in the Headstart courses, this is a copy of a post from the forum on fsi-language-courses:
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| workerbee Senior Member United States Joined 6786 days ago 173 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 10 of 22 10 July 2008 at 9:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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For anyone who was lucky enough to get a Headstart course, is a .mil address necessary to use the program? Don't want any troubles...
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| Cebeel Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6495 days ago 51 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 11 of 22 29 October 2008 at 6:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
WOW!!! thanks a million! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6638 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 22 30 October 2008 at 4:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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The only trouble with GLOSS is that even its easiest texts are at the level of at least the lower intermediate stage, - you have to get the basics somewhere else. But as soon as you can understand the texts with the help of the translations and audio then it is just about the best thing you could imagine in its genre.
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| unzum Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom soyouwanttolearnalan Joined 6849 days ago 371 posts - 478 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 13 of 22 16 November 2008 at 5:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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There have been some new stuff added to the site recently, especially for Arabic learners.
Arabic Accents has different passages to listen to in MSA and ten different Arabic dialects/accents: Egyptian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, Libyan, Palestinian, Saudi Arabian, Sudanese, Syrian, and Tunisian Arabic Grammar Search - I couldn't really get this to work but then I don't know any Arabic... Phone Conversations to listen to in Egyptian, Iraqi and Levantine Arabic. Folktale map isn't really language related but it has several folktales for different parts of the world, with picture and audio. Lingnet has been updated with Azeri, Tausug, Wu and possibly some others. And GLOSS now includes Azeri, Hausa, Kurmanji, Punjabi, Swahili, Tagalog and Uzbek. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6083 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 14 of 22 16 November 2008 at 9:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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It seems for the field support site, you can now only download the audio for the familiarization course where you learn charming phrases like "Stop or I will shoot" and "You are a prisoner".
Did anyone manage to download any of the Headstart courses? I'm not in North America nor am I a US citizen so I don't think they'll be as willing to ship a dvd to me as they did for the other guy. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| unzum Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom soyouwanttolearnalan Joined 6849 days ago 371 posts - 478 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 15 of 22 17 November 2008 at 11:20am | IP Logged | |||||
The availability does seem to be a bit spotty. I was able to access most of the Cantonese language guides but some of the Bengali ones weren't available. However, for most learners, the basic guide would be of most use; I can't imagine anyone outside of the military wanting to know names of weapons in Javanese, for example. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ANK47 Triglot Senior Member United States thearabicstudent.blo Joined 7032 days ago 188 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (classical) | Message 16 of 22 20 January 2009 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I love GLOSS. I don't do the lessons, but having a translation and a transcript for the audio is so valuable. That's the best way to learn for me. I listen to the audio without looking at the transcript, then if there's anything I don't understand I'll go through the transcript and translation and work it out. There's another site like GLOSS called Weekly Training Events that has the same type of files that GLOSS has but they aren't the same ones. http://wte.lingnet.org/search.aspx
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