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| desert_daisy Newbie Australia Joined 6934 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Arabic (Written) | Message 25 of 45 22 April 2006 at 3:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Could anyone please tell me: is the book used for the FSI Saudi course, the one by Margaret K. Omar (also known as Margaret Nydell)? :-)
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| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7145 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes  Studies: Uzbek | Message 26 of 45 22 April 2006 at 9:00am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, the FSI Saudi Arabic (Urban Hijazi Dialect) Basic Course is by Margaret K. Omar. (I don't know anything about the Nydell connection, but the Omar name is on the first page, and a note from the Dean of the FSI language school makes it clear that the course is primarily her work.)
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| desert_daisy Newbie Australia Joined 6934 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Arabic (Written) | Message 27 of 45 22 April 2006 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks, daristani :-)
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| Malcolm Triglot Retired Moderator Senior Member Korea, South Joined 7316 days ago 500 posts - 515 votes 5 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Korean Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 28 of 45 11 July 2006 at 9:39pm | IP Logged | ||
I realize this is an old thread, but I just wanted to add that I'll be getting a scanner tomorrow and I'll be able to scan in the books for the FSI Modern Written Arabic course. I've never scanned anything in before, but how difficult could it be? Does anyone know how long this kind of job takes? I'll be using a Canon CanoScan Scanner (LiDE 60) with USB 2.0. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Deniz Bilingual Heptaglot Groupie Czech RepublicRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6820 days ago 94 posts - 97 votes Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, FrenchB2 Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, Indonesian, Persian | Message 29 of 45 12 July 2006 at 5:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Great, Malcolm. Scanning a page with text can take you less than 4 minutes and maybe even less. Thank you and braveb for such altruism. We all will appreciate it. Don t you know about anybody with the Hijazi FSI coure? Edited by Deniz on 12 July 2006 at 5:48am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 7105 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds | Message 30 of 45 12 July 2006 at 11:41am | IP Logged | ||
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I recently acquired a new scanner and it's much faster than my old one. Most of the newer USB 2.0 scanners should be able to do the page in 20 seconds or less.
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| Malcolm Triglot Retired Moderator Senior Member Korea, South Joined 7316 days ago 500 posts - 515 votes 5 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Korean Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 31 of 45 12 July 2006 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been playing around with the new scanner and it's pretty easy to use. It can scan a page in under 10 seconds, but if you include the time required to preview the image first then crop it, as well as the time required to position the book on the scanner and turn the pages, it probably averages to 30 seconds per page. This seems reasonable to me.
So far, I've scanned the introduction and the first lesson and made them into pdf files. I also have braveb's mp3 for the first lesson. If anyone wants these from me, just let me know. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Deniz Bilingual Heptaglot Groupie Czech RepublicRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6820 days ago 94 posts - 97 votes Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, FrenchB2 Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, Indonesian, Persian | Message 32 of 45 13 July 2006 at 3:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Ok, it seems my approximation of the scanning time was a bit overrated. This is due to the rather older age of my scanner. Well, Malcolm, could it be possibly up-loaded to http://fsi-language-courses.com/ ? I am definetly interested in the progress of your cooperation with braveb. Thank you both again for your effort.
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