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| fizzer Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5544 days ago 17 posts - 25 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 1 of 2 13 February 2010 at 1:15pm | IP Logged |
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I am constantly seeing warnings that FSI occasionally teaches phrases that are hopelessly old-fashioned, perhaps even offensive today. Examples in FSI German are said to be 'Gnädige Frau' and 'Fräulein' respectively. Has anyone compiled a list of these things for the various courses? I see an effort at ielanguages.com as part of the HTML-ization, but it seems to have stalled.
I ask because I am about to embark on FSI French. If my last visit is anything to go by, the French don't need any extra excuses to ridicule my efforts. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6271 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 2 of 2 15 February 2010 at 3:26pm | IP Logged |
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There are quite a few in the Turkish version. Zevce is given for wife, but this Arabic-origin word has long been obsolete in Turkish. Umumiyetle is given for generally and this word too is archaic. The Turkish FSI was published in 1966 and I am sure those words were on the way out even in the 1960s.
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