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| Panglot Tetraglot Newbie United States eiu.edu Joined 6082 days ago 21 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin, Russian, Italian | Message 1 of 9 17 September 2008 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello All,
I have been searching for a program for intermediate through advanced Mandarin Chinese, and I had hoped that there would be an FSI course available. After searching Amazon, I could only find FSI courses for Cantonese. Am I missing something, or are there no FSI courses available for Mandarin? Thanks in advance, Panglot 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| willcouchman Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6350 days ago 23 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish | Message 2 of 9 17 September 2008 at 4:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes there is. Try the FSI language courses website (fsi-language-courses.com). Most FSI courses are available there
for free download, including Mandarin. Under 'Chinese'. It's done in a modular approach, which is the only one I have seen in FSI courses. But still, it should be good, just the layout is unusual. Best of luck, Will 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| autodidactic Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States tinyurl.com/cunningl Joined 6625 days ago 100 posts - 110 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Japanese, Kazakh | Message 3 of 9 17 September 2008 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | ||
Oddly enough, they list it as: cantonese. chinese. I was confused by this at first because once I saw cantonese listed I was scanning the page for mandarin. Someone should relabel that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6911 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 9 17 September 2008 at 7:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm... if I was looking for Mandarin and found "Chinese" and "Cantonese", I would be ready to bet a small fortune that "Chinese" indeed was "Mandarin", but that's probably just me...
Which language did you think was hidden behind "Chinese"? Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 17 September 2008 at 7:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Panglot Tetraglot Newbie United States eiu.edu Joined 6082 days ago 21 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin, Russian, Italian | Message 5 of 9 18 September 2008 at 8:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you for the information about FSI Chinese. Additionally, though, would anyone know the best place to buy it? I cannot seem to find it available on Amazon or anywhere on ebay. Any suggestions?
Thank you, Panglot 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Raincrowlee Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 6704 days ago 621 posts - 808 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Indonesian, Japanese | Message 6 of 9 19 September 2008 at 10:58am | IP Logged | ||
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www.fsi-language-courses.com
Why buy when you can download for free? It's legal, if that's what you're worried about. Public domain. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| awake Senior Member United States Joined 6638 days ago 406 posts - 438 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Spanish | Message 7 of 9 19 September 2008 at 2:36pm | IP Logged | ||
You might want to buy it if you have a slow internet connection and don't want to tie up your connection downloading so many mp3 files and large pdfs. If that's the case you can sometimes buy CD's with the FSI Chinese/mandarin course on Ebay for a few dollars. It may also be that they want a nondigital version of the course, if you don't want to burn your own CD's and print out your own copy from scanned pages. Alas, I'm not sure if anyone sells the full FSI course in hard copy form (books/tapes). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 白云山 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6138 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 9 28 September 2008 at 7:07am | IP Logged | ||
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How far will the FSI Chinese course take you? I'm currently downloading it....it's been downloading for about 6 weeks now. I'm up to 80%. Really can't wait until it's done. But i'm just curious to what level will this course take me?
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