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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6152 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 7 23 November 2009 at 5:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Having used only three FSI courses so far, I'm wondering which FSI courses have very good quality audio, and which ones are very poorly recorded.
My ratings are as follows, FSI Hungarian Basic : Excellent FSI French Basic: Average but occasionally very poor. FSI Spanish Basic: Average but also occasionally very muffled. How would you rate the others ? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6152 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 2 of 7 08 April 2011 at 12:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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In addition to my previous post, I'd add the following on some FSI style courses,
Modern Russian 1: Reasonable but some tapes have volume problems and muffling. Spoken Russian 1: Suprisingly good. (I haven't listened extensively.) Beginning Polish: Reasonable but also has some muffling and some very low volumes. Edited by DaraghM on 08 April 2011 at 12:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7078 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 3 of 7 08 April 2011 at 1:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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From memory...
FSI Korean Basic: average to poor Beginning Japanese: generally good 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| etracher Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 5335 days ago 92 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Modern Hebrew, Russian, Latvian | Message 4 of 7 08 April 2011 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hebrew Basic Course: Generally decent but sometimes muffled. At times it is difficult to distinguish masculine and feminine second and third person plural pronouns in the drills, which can be somewhat problematic.
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| CaucusWolf Senior Member United States Joined 5273 days ago 191 posts - 234 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Written), Japanese | Message 5 of 7 09 April 2011 at 7:09am | IP Logged | ||
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FSI Modern Written Arabic 1&2: Audio in both books is easy to understand. The quality is far better in some of the recordings than others. You can hear backround noises in most(if not all)of the recordings, but you can only hear this if you use ear phones. Edited by CaucusWolf on 09 April 2011 at 7:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MichaelM204351 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5445 days ago 151 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English*, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish | Message 6 of 7 09 April 2011 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | ||
I totally agree with this statement... As a whole, the Basic Hebrew Course has pretty good audio (except the problem above). Basic German Course: Excellent! No complaints... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 7 of 7 09 April 2011 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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- FSI Conversational Finnish: usually acceptable (for some tapes the audio for the first few minutes of the respective .mp3 alternates between being muffled and clear. The up-and-down nature of this levels out after a few minutes into the track)
- FSI Czech FAST and FSI Russian FAST: decent 1 person has voted this message useful |
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