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| Jake Day Newbie United States Joined 5027 days ago 30 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 4 21 June 2012 at 11:13pm | IP Logged |
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I'm picking up my Spanish studies, and I was wondering, is the pronunciation in the FSI Spanish course worthy of
imitation, or should I start with a different program with different pronunciation? I ask because I've heard from various people that the voices on FSI courses in most languages generally mispronounce words in the target language with an incorrect accent, and I was wondering if this was true for Spanish as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jason6 Diglot Newbie United States jasonanders Joined 4936 days ago 6 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 2 of 4 21 June 2012 at 11:34pm | IP Logged |
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I´ve listened to about the first 3rd of Part 2 of the Spanish Programmatic Course and the pronunciation seems fine to me. I´m not a native speaker, but the people on the tape are.
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| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5373 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 3 of 4 21 June 2012 at 11:58pm | IP Logged |
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I just completed the FSI Basic Course for Spanish and it seemed fine. They do speak fast though!
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| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5781 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 4 of 4 22 June 2012 at 12:23am | IP Logged |
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I don't think they pronounce incorrectly, but they do speak in an unnatural machine
like manner, both in English and in Spanish. A quick point about FSI. One of the reasons my Spanish accent is not so great is that I spent a long time pronouncing words they way beginner's textbooks told me to pronounce them. I initially skipped the pronunciation lessons on FSI (actually platiquemos) because I thought I already knew how to pronounce Spanish- big mistake! While I was in Spain I tried shadowing and was disturbed to find that far from being better my pronunciation actually got WORSE (or so I thought) not better when shadowing. To give just one example I would find myself pronouncing "n" as "m" before certain letters, such as "b". I thought I had a problem and fought very hard against this tendency. Luckily for me I later went back and studied the pronunciation units in FSI and found that this (an example of assimilation) is how you're supposed to pronounce Spanish! I will be forever grateful to FSI for explaining this (and many other things I "thought" I was doing wrong) and angry in equal measure with the standard beginner's textbooks for omitting these more complex points. Sadly, with a few very common words (my worst one being the "favor" in "por favor") I even now find it very hard to pronounce them the correct way because of my earlier error. In sum: FSI + pronunciation = a very valuable part of your armoury, NOT something to worry about. Edited by Random review on 22 June 2012 at 12:30am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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