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mawkernewek
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Message 10 of 18

11 July 2008 at 5:47am | IP Logged

I've been going through FSI German at a ridiculously fast rate of a unit a day. I'm having time off from my PhD at the moment so I have time to do this. I'm going to Germany next week, and wanted to do a quick review to remind me of what I did when I took German GCSE a few years ago.

I already find the German case system and adjective endings come much more naturally to me than when I did German GCSE. I think I will go up to unit 12 or 13 in this blitzkrieg manner and then start at the beginning again doing the variation drills properly.

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TheElvenLord
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Message 11 of 18

11 July 2008 at 7:28am | IP Logged

Wel, mar a nyns yw Davydh arta, Maw Kernewek!

An hanow ha "FSI German" a ri an dybyans dell dybav - Res yw dhis kewsel orthov y'n spas-nebyethow.

Fatl'a gavydh an wiasva ma?

Come to the multilngual lounge Mawkernewek.

TEL
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mawkernewek
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11 July 2008 at 7:33am | IP Logged

I am indeed who you think I am. I can't quite remember how I found this website, just a search I think. It was here that I found about the FSI courses.
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jeff_lindqvist
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Message 13 of 18

11 July 2008 at 3:34pm | IP Logged

mawkernewek wrote:

I've been going through FSI German at a ridiculously fast rate of a unit a day./.../I already find the German case system and adjective endings come much more naturally to me than when I did German GCSE. I think I will go up to unit 12 or 13 in this blitzkrieg manner and then start at the beginning again doing the variation drills properly.

I have sometimes done one unit of FSI German per day without too much difficulty. My guess is that it may give a better view of the "big picture", depending on what type of learner you are. I could never stand doing the same lesson over and over until "perfection" (and definitely not over-learning!) so instead I move on till I get a burnout. And I can always review the entire course again (or individual lessons).
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mawkernewek
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Message 14 of 18

11 July 2008 at 4:01pm | IP Logged

My philosophy is similar, get the big picture first then consolidate later.

I do plan to go back to the variation drills and do them properly, although I find the substitution ones too tedious to do to the point of overlearning. I believe it is more useful to use what grammar you know to produce German sentences rather than overlearn substitution drills and memorise dialogues.

I'm currently on unit 12, I plan to complete it and the next unit and then start going back to consolidate. I suppose I should aim to be able to get through the variation drills without use of the pause button.
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30 July 2008 at 6:52pm | IP Logged

!LH@N wrote:

Hi everybody!
I am still wondering how one is actually supposed to use FSI, and how one should use it (or how you have used it) in a self-study invironment.
I'd be especially interested in Francois' response :)

Regards,
Ilhan

PS: If anyone has any experience, how would you recommend me using FSI Serbo-Croatian?

If i were going to study Serbo Croation, or any other language, I would begin using Rosetta Stone and Pimsleur in no particular order. When I felt sufficiently advanced I would begin regularly visiting www.sharedtalk.com and speaking with locals. I would add some vocabulary study in as well. After finishing Rosetta Stone and Pimsleur, I would then begin the FSI course from scratch, if one exists. By then I would be visiting www.sharedtalk.com regularly to practice speaking with natives. After finishing the FSI course i would figure out something else to study in my language of choice.

Si yo iba a estudiar Serbo-Croatian, yo empecia con Rosetta Stone y Pimsleur primero. Cuando aprendia mucho de la idioma, empecia con FSI. Cuando estaba estudiando FSI, visitia www.sharedtalk.com unos veces por la semana. Es Este Espanol Correcto?
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!LH@N
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Message 16 of 18

30 July 2008 at 7:13pm | IP Logged

Thanks for the help ;)
I will be using Pimsleur Croatian in combination with Ronelle Alexander's books and see how far I get. I also have several Bosnian friends and my sisters husband is Croatian (I made a deal with him, I'm gonna help him out with Turkish, and he's gonna help me out with BCS). I'll see how far that'll get me.

Regards,
Ilhan

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