Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 7106 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds
| Message 9 of 12 08 December 2005 at 1:15pm | IP Logged |
jtmc18 wrote:
I'm going to have to find some other method of learning Italian, because I do not think that FSI will be of any use. What other programs are people using for this? |
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That's a very good question, I've wondered what else is out there. However if you know Spanish and even some French it's a lot easier to learn Italian.
As far as the other FSI courses, I've looked at the first level of Barron's Portuguese. It was a little like the Italian in that if covered a lot of intonation patterns (I guess this is what the "programmatic" courses are like) but you were still learning real sentiences along the way. The German course is very good though, not exactly like the Spanish format, but nothing like the strange one on the Italian course.
Edited by Sir Nigel on 08 December 2005 at 1:17pm
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mike245 Triglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6974 days ago 303 posts - 408 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Cantonese Studies: French, German, Mandarin, Khmer
| Message 10 of 12 08 December 2005 at 3:22pm | IP Logged |
Sir Nigel wrote:
As far as the other FSI courses, I've looked at the first level of Barron's Portuguese. It was a little like the Italian in that if covered a lot of intonation patterns (I guess this is what the "programmatic" courses are like) but you were still learning real sentiences along the way. The German course is very good though, not exactly like the Spanish format, but nothing like the strange one on the Italian course. |
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If you are looking for a drill-heavy Portuguese method, I'd suggest the Portugues Contemporaneo series (2 books and 21 tapes, approximately $250 total) published through Georgetown University Press and available here. This set is very much like FSI German (I don't know what FSI Spanish looks like), and much more drill-intensive than the FSI Programmatic Portuguese set. I've used it for class as a supplement and it's great.
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7017 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 11 of 12 08 December 2005 at 4:13pm | IP Logged |
Sir Nigel wrote:
That's a very good question, I've wondered what else is out there. However if you know Spanish and even some French it's a lot easier to learn Italian. |
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The full Linguaphone course is good. It includes nine CDs, two videos and four books. It's expensive but there are always good second hand versions on eBay.
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Kleberson Diglot Senior Member Great Britain Joined 6420 days ago 166 posts - 168 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese Studies: Italian, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin
| Message 12 of 12 22 August 2008 at 12:49pm | IP Logged |
Is there an FSI Italian 'basic' course? Similar to that of the FSI French and Spanish?
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