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| dutos Newbie Argentina Joined 5723 days ago 35 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* | Message 9 of 17 12 October 2008 at 2:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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TheElvenLord!
If MyTaylorisRich wants FSI Spanish Basic Course levels 3-4 *audio*, then he's got to buy it. No one has put those files up. You can find the Spanish Basic Course texts 3&4, but no audio. Think about this: The people like appreciate the FSI materials on here could essentially make a huge library with all of the public domain language materials. I think that's what www.fsi-language-courses.com tried to do, but it's been over a year since they updated that site, and there's a lot material that's there. Personally, I don't want to spend $100 or $250 for a course that supposed to be free. At the same time, I know that it's a lot of work to scan books. If someone likes to scan the books as a hobby, then fine.. I respect that, but I would be perfectly willing to donate to a site too. If you think about it, $5 from 50 people = $250, which is plenty enough to compensate someone for the course and the hours scanning (depending on their scanner, of course.) After all, this IS NOT copyrighted material, and it feels a little rotten to see these people are profiting from the tax dollars of my grandparents and parents. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 5860 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 11 of 17 16 October 2008 at 3:55am | IP Logged | ||
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This my answer to the original question.
How I use each unit is this way; I read and listen to the dialog first, amd imput the words into Anki and memorize them. From then on I will completely ignore the pdf with drills and do only audio. I then listen to all the drills except the convo stimulus, without text, several times throughout the day (spaced out). The next day, I listen to the drills again, imput the frist vocab enrichment (these start later on) into Anki, and memorize. Read the first reading. I then continue until I can respond to nearly every drill with no effort. When this happens, I do the review drill, and the convo stimulous, as well as read the final reading. I then move on the the next lesson. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| luckyboy1300 Diglot Newbie Philippines Joined 6377 days ago 17 posts - 18 votes Speaks: Tagalog*, English Studies: Spanish, French, Japanese | Message 12 of 17 30 November 2008 at 7:18am | IP Logged | ||
I think it was mentioned in Platiquemos that there will come a stage where you think you're not learning anything. It is because your brain is assimilating information like a jigsaw puzzle, and everything will start to make sense starting about level 3 or 4. So I guess you just have to persevere and when you arrive at level 3 or 4 you'll start to feel real progress. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| roy2005 Diglot Groupie Hong Kong Joined 6360 days ago 70 posts - 75 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, German | Message 13 of 17 30 November 2008 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you feel you can't retain anything, it might help to listen to the basic sentences for a few more times (days) before repeating after the speakers. Move on to the exercises only when you are familiar with the basic sentences.
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| wakefield10 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5717 days ago 10 posts - 12 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 14 of 17 25 November 2010 at 4:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know this is old but I have one last question.
On some of the exercises it seems like there are no correct answers. eg ¿Están Uds. en la escuela o en el hotel answer : Estamos en la escuela is it supposed to be like that? what is the point of the exercise? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6913 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 15 of 17 25 November 2010 at 4:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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The moment I read this post, it rang a bell.
You're talking about the response drills, in particular the "choice" ones which do not provide a clue to the anwser in the prompt. The guidance is only that they "normally require full sentence replies". In one sense, you are right there is no correct answer - both might be correct depending on context. On the other hand, the "correct" answer is the one given in the book/on the tape. You shouldn't worry too much about this, the important thing is that you have assimilated the correct pattern in response to the question: ¿Están Uds en __ o en __ ? Estamos en __ 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Talairan Tetraglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6402 days ago 194 posts - 258 votes Speaks: Afrikaans, English*, Gypsy/Romani, Dutch Studies: Spanish, Flemish, Galician, Aramaic | Message 16 of 17 25 November 2010 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think that there are no correct answers for these types of drills; answering "Estamos en la escuela" or "Estamos en el hotel" would equally be correct. I have gone through my printed out copy of Platiquemos and written the correct option in brackets behind the question, so that I know which will be coming up on the audio/ as the model answer. So eg. ¿Están Uds. en la escuela o en el hotel? (la escuela).
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