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Neil_UK
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 Message 33 of 38
21 October 2011 at 5:38pm | IP Logged 
fortheo wrote:
Neil_UK wrote:
Ericounet wrote:
Hi,

just a short notice to announce the availability of the FSI Russian course in a new
pdf. I ocred the pages and transformed them to docbook format, and generated the pdf. I
have still some work to do on the docbook document and will put it asap.

The pdf is now here: Yojik website: look under the FSI
Russian menu.

Very soon will be there the audio, split into words/lessons/phrases with the
correspondant text part in French and English. There will be lists in Anki, Shtooka,
Yazik, plain text format and maybe others if anyone is interested. My wife will record
the missing Russian audio parts. I'll record the French part.

I want also to provide a French version of the course.

Do note that this version is a non stressed version; the stressed version will also be
there very soon.

Feel free to notice the mistakes, errors.

Enjoy.



I don't get why a new pdf is needed. The pdfs for the Russian FSI course are already
available on the FSI website. Why did you need to make another pdf?


I found it to be much more organized with the pdf's split into lessons. It also suits
my divide and conquer approach better too. That may be just me though.


Oh, fair enough. I'll have to check out your versions then, as I do use the Russian FSI
course.
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Ericounet
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 Message 34 of 38
21 October 2011 at 7:38pm | IP Logged 
Hi,

the principal goal of doing what I did is:

to have a document which has theses properties:

1) editable (not the pdf, but the epub, xhtml and xml versions)(making new exercises, extract some parts of the lessons etc ...)
2) searchable (you cannot search anything in a pdf made with scanned pages (images)
3) easy to translate (with OmegaT for example)
4) it's xml so, you can extract the vocabulary, or the exercises ....
5) easy to read on any device: I made pdf but also epub format, online, xhtml.
6) easy to link with audio files (on the way: I have to decide if I 'll make embeded audio or not ...)
7) The xml sources I made available (docbook 5) allows anybody to take the document and do what he wants with it. (new formating, modifications etc ...)

and first at all: I just wanted to do that :); it's a way for me to work on Russian material, to read and improve my knowledge. (in English too by the way)

best regards,

Eric!

ps: I have to add that I like very much programming (since 1976..), typography (TeX and LaTeX) ... I found a way to use the LaTeX backend of docbook (DBLatex) and got it work: the pdfs are very nice to look at and to read . I'll put them on my site this weekend.


Edited by Ericounet on 22 October 2011 at 9:16pm

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Ericounet
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 Message 35 of 38
06 November 2011 at 5:10pm | IP Logged 
Hi,

I added today: Comminicate in Russian part 1 (1972)

Available as usual on Yojik, DLI submenu.

You'll find there an alternative pdf formated with DBLatex: try it and say to me what you think about it (the formatting, visual)

Edited by Ericounet on 06 November 2011 at 5:11pm

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Ericounet
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 Message 36 of 38
17 June 2012 at 10:13am | IP Logged 
Hi,

I added today: Communicate in Russian part 2 and 3 (1972)

Available as usual on Yojik, DLI submenu.

Also was added the first unit of FSI-German-Basic-course: same website.

Note: my server was hacked last end december: it took some time to install a new one; the web site is not fancy, but everything is there.

I also reanimate the shtooka website , which was down for several months: I get the image of the site on the "internet archives" and built a static site; it was a big time work, but all ressources are now available again (collections of audio words/phrases) (my wife recorded a lot of Russian words for shtooka)

You'll find the "new" old shtooka site here:

oldshtooka

I know that it's not perfect (I don't have the server side programs), so the site is only static, but I think the ressources are valuable.

Like usual, send to me errors/mistakes ...

Eric


Edit 10H50 today : the links on the website are corrected ...

Edited by Ericounet on 17 June 2012 at 10:51am

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maydayayday
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 Message 37 of 38
17 June 2012 at 11:06am | IP Logged 
Thanks for putting in so much work: I am sure I'll be able to use these!
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napoleon
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 Message 38 of 38
17 June 2012 at 2:25pm | IP Logged 
You sir are a gem of a person. Its because of the hard work of people like you that makes HTLAL what it is today.
Thank you very much.


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