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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 1 of 7 02 August 2011 at 8:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Does anyone know where I can get a chapter by chapter vocabulary list for French in Action? A google search only brought up lists for an online flashcard programme.
EDIT: I suppose the textbook would have vocabulary lists for each chapter. So a second question would be, is the textbook worth getting? I have the DVD's. Edited by Jeffers on 02 August 2011 at 9:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6919 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 7 03 August 2011 at 2:12am | IP Logged | ||
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French in Action Vocabulary List on Quizlet
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3 of 7 03 August 2011 at 2:16am | IP Logged | ||
Thank you. But both sites seem to have random selections of chapters, and they are online flashcards. Does anyone know of a site which just lists the vocabulary? If not, I might try to cull the vocab from these sites (although I don't think all chapters are included). (EDIT: those two sites are the sites I mentioned in my original post, by the way). Edited by Jeffers on 03 August 2011 at 2:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| srh9592 Newbie United States Joined 5704 days ago 14 posts - 15 votes Studies: French, Spanish | Message 4 of 7 12 August 2011 at 1:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm using French in Action now. The text book and work book are important, but you will also need the audio files to use with the workbook. These items are available at amazon.com or at (http://www.learner.org/catalog/series83.html); these items are pricey but how valuable is your time? These products will make your time investment in FIA much more effective. The study guide is okay but not necessary.
Wrt VOCAB lists: FIA does not want you to use vocab lists, and does not want you to translate from English to French. You are supposed to watch the videos/ use the text book & work book in French... learn through immersion. The text book and work book have photos and cartoons showing actions that correspond to audio you hear in the audio file drills; this method is effective for learning vocabulary. This is one of the reasons it's important to have the text book, work book, and audio files in addition to the videos. Like you, I would still like English/French flash cards to augment the FIA method and have also been looking for a FIA vocab list (by chapter) via google with no luck. The text book does have a complete vocab list at the back of the book but it's an alphabetical list for all chapters combined; each entry has (German word/English word/ grammar/ chapter number(s) for the word/phrase). This list is for emergency use if the immersion method is not working for a specific word/phrase. If money was not object, I'd pay someone to re-type all the words in a Word document with the chapter number used at the start of each entry; then I could sort by chapter... instant vocab list by chapter. Unfortunately, doing this work myself would take a ton of time that I could better use studying French. If we could get 10 or more FIA students to work together on the project, I'd be willing to participate since the smaller time investment would be worth the complete (sorted by chapter) vocab list. Edited by srh9592 on 12 August 2011 at 1:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Farley Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 7092 days ago 681 posts - 739 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, GermanB1, French Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 7 13 August 2011 at 5:20am | IP Logged | ||
I agree 100%. The French in Action Textbook is well worth the investment of money. I'd buy Mastering French Vocabulary as the next best thing to a FIA word list. You'll recognize most of the vocabulary as being "somewhere" in FIA. The workbooks are valuable but not essential. For the money, I think Hugo French gives a better overview. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5565 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 6 of 7 13 August 2011 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am going through the whole of FIA now - I would disagree that the workbooks/audio are not essential to
the course. Capretz and co have buried a huge amount of phonology, grammar and practice in the two workbooks that, in my opinion, is not matched by any other single course on the market. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 7 of 7 16 August 2011 at 7:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I did buy the FIA textbook, finally. I think it will be very helpful, although there's not really much in it other than the transcripts of the DVD's. Each section has vocabulary in grey boxes, which I will make into cards.
In keeping with the philosophy of the course, all the vocabulary is illustrated rather than translated. It generally works well with the videos, but in the textbook it doesn't always work well (much like Rosetta Stone). In any case, I'm not learning by immersion, so I will use a dictionary to help make my vocabulary cards for FIA. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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