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| anothername Triglot Groupie Brazil Joined 5062 days ago 96 posts - 195 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, English | Message 1 of 9 22 February 2011 at 4:09am | IP Logged | ||
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1 - What are the best/most recommended FSI/DLI courses? (the french FSI course seems to have a solid reputation, but what about the others?)
2 - Is there a tangible difference/improvement between FSI and DLI courses/approaches? 3 - Did someone here really tried to learn arabic (MSA and/or dialects) with DLI courses? If yes, what are your thoughts? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anothername Triglot Groupie Brazil Joined 5062 days ago 96 posts - 195 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, English | Message 2 of 9 22 February 2011 at 11:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Any help will be appreciated.
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| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5758 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 3 of 9 23 February 2011 at 12:52am | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't used either of the courses but these links may help you:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=23446&PN=1 http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/keyword.asp?KW=52 http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=16480&PN=1 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5758 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 9 23 February 2011 at 12:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Just delete the spaces from the links above when you copy and paste and they will work
fine. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anothername Triglot Groupie Brazil Joined 5062 days ago 96 posts - 195 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, English | Message 5 of 9 23 February 2011 at 3:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks a lot for the links, there are good discussions posted.
Unfortunately, none of the specific questions I made are answered on these threads. Or perhaps they are answered in one of these threads marked with "UPGRADE NOW", which, with all respect for the supporting members, I prefer not to. The reason why I asked these questions is I'm trying to adopt a mixed approach on my language learning, and FSI seemed like a valuable extra tool. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Artek Triglot Newbie Poland Joined 5031 days ago 6 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Spanish Studies: French | Message 6 of 9 24 February 2011 at 8:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I personally recommend DLI Basic Spanish. (Unfortunatelly I have only the text version without the audio. If anyone knows where the recordings can be found I would very much appreciate the tip). I think that DLI is at least as good as FSI Basic Spanish/Platiquemos if not better. There is less emphasis on somewhat mechanical repetition and substitution drills and more on answering questions about the dialogues and narrations as well as translation exercises. It leaves you with an impressive vocabulary ( if you can stomach loads of vocab and expressions with a military slant :-)) Edited by Artek on 24 February 2011 at 8:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anothername Triglot Groupie Brazil Joined 5062 days ago 96 posts - 195 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, English | Message 7 of 9 25 February 2011 at 1:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, the military bias/jargon is probably useless to me...
I feel those courses are not very attractive to me on european languages (I mean, within the indoeuropean branch) like Spanish, french, German or even russian, in which Assimil (and alikes) already does the trick to me, accompanied with a good grammar. With such familiar languages, the feeling of being able to walk on my own feet happens much earlier. What entices me most about DLI/FSI is the opportunity to get a solid work on hard and distant languages like arabic and chinese, because that's a field in which I believe I cannot attain the same independency/proficiency with "normal" courses (or, at least, I never came close to). I'm very impressed with some excerpts of DLI arabic (MSA and dialects), and it sounds like a rewarding work, military slant and all... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dleewo Groupie United States Joined 5819 days ago 95 posts - 131 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 8 of 9 25 February 2011 at 3:39am | IP Logged | ||
Is this what you're looking for: FSI Spanish Baisc EDIT: (Sorry...just realized you wanted the DLI audio and not the FSI audio) Edited by dleewo on 25 February 2011 at 2:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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