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| Marchal Diglot Senior Member Germany christian-renner.deRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6161 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Latin | Message 1 of 16 19 May 2010 at 12:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I found some threads on FIA (French in Action, Capretz, Yale), but so far no answer to THAT question and constellation:
If I have the audio disks and almost all the written material (textbook, study books, work books, instructor book), do I really need the video material (which is awfully expensive when bought on DVD outside the US)? The texts seem to be all on the audio disks, or aren't they? So the videos seem mainly for motivation (which I hope I can stimulate in other ways, as well :-). FIA without the videos - possible or not? Edited by Marchal on 19 May 2010 at 12:40am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5705 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes  Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 2 of 16 19 May 2010 at 12:42am | IP Logged | ||
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Have you tried using a proxy internet connection? If you can find one that uses a
Canadian or American connection, you can watch them for free at http://www.learner.org/resources/series83.html . 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7131 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 3 of 16 19 May 2010 at 8:49am | IP Logged | ||
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To answer your question, yes. The text of the main dialogue is certainly given in the audio files - the first one marked nn-00.mp3 if memory serves. However, I don't believe the "classroom" dialogues from Pierre Capretz that follow this on the video are represented in the audio (someone may correct me on this) and the rest of the mp3 files provide excersises to back up the main teaching.
However, don't buy the videos - download them. Almost five years ago, I posted this: French In Action Without a Proxy They're still available. I'm currently downloading 27-52 because I appear to have put my original copies "in a very safe place". Andy. Edited by Andy E on 19 May 2010 at 8:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| bushwick Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6272 days ago 407 posts - 443 votes Speaks: German, Croatian*, English, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese | Message 4 of 16 19 May 2010 at 9:39am | IP Logged | ||
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aren't they public domain now?
torrent them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7131 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 5 of 16 19 May 2010 at 10:46am | IP Logged | ||
Not everyone's comfortable with the idea of torrents. They can be watched and/or downloaded as and when required. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Marchal Diglot Senior Member Germany christian-renner.deRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6161 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Latin | Message 6 of 16 19 May 2010 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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I seem just to be too technically innocent. Is there really no way to download all the files to my harddisk in a kind of batch? At the moment it seems I have to watch each file with kaffeine and save the stream to harddisk as it comes. Possible, but I would rather like to just batch-download. Any idea? (torrenting is about network optimizing and download sharing, I think, which does not seem the best answer to the prob, is it?
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| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7131 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 7 of 16 19 May 2010 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes. There is. Download managers (I use NetTransport - V1.87 the last freeware one) often have a batch download feature to facilitate this. Alternatively, a download via torrent would, I suspect, give you everything in one go (I can't check on FIA because an attempt to access any such site at work would bring the internet police down on me in short order). You mention "Kaffeine", are you using a flavour of Unix then? Somewhere on this site, I've seen a Unix script for downloading the FIA audio. Perhaps that could be adapted to download the video - at the moment I can't find it.** Having said that, I'm not batch downloading the files. I'm downloading them one at a time (I've occasionally had corrupt downloads) in the background, verifying that the WMV file is ok and then re-indexing them which reduces the size by about half and makes them seekable. **Edit: Idiot that I am. It's on the last page of my own thread posted above and it's already a script to download the video, not the audio. Edited by Andy E on 19 May 2010 at 4:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7043 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 16 20 May 2010 at 1:42am | IP Logged | ||
Yes it's possible, but as you mention, it's nowhere near as much fun! There are ways round the downloading-from-outside-the-US problem, just follow Andy's advice in his (very old!) thread. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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