lvd4127 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6071 days ago 3 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish
| Message 1 of 8 09 March 2010 at 8:20pm | IP Logged |
The American Foreign Service Institute courses, which are wonderful means for learning any language, are now on the internet free of charge. In the United States, government documents cannot be copyrighted and are available for anyone to copy, and these courses are government documents. Someone is putting first the books, then the sound recordings, on the web. Go to http://www.fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php and try them out. At first, our computers did not receive the sound clearly, but someone here or there remedied it and now the sound is fine. The site is not maintained by the American government, but by private citizens.
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7159 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 2 of 8 09 March 2010 at 9:47pm | IP Logged |
yup
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alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7224 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish
| Message 3 of 8 09 March 2010 at 11:07pm | IP Logged |
lvd4127,
You had become a member almost two years ago. Did you not know about the FSI site all this time?
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Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5425 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 4 of 8 10 March 2010 at 5:23am | IP Logged |
were they not free before?
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7159 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 5 of 8 10 March 2010 at 6:42am | IP Logged |
Johntm wrote:
were they not free before? |
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Before the creation of fsi-language-courses.com and .org, the only effectively free option was to get them at the library.
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delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7184 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German
| Message 6 of 8 10 March 2010 at 11:39am | IP Logged |
They were digitized by members of this forum!
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Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5425 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 7 of 8 11 March 2010 at 5:37am | IP Logged |
Chung wrote:
Johntm wrote:
were they not free before? |
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Before the creation of fsi-language-courses.com and .org, the only effectively free option was to get them at the library. |
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Oh thanks.
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global_gizzy Senior Member United States maxcollege.blogspot. Joined 5706 days ago 275 posts - 310 votes Studies: Spanish
| Message 8 of 8 11 March 2010 at 7:49pm | IP Logged |
Who is the OP? Didn't he know about FSI website all this time?
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