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Which FSI courses are good and which not?
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arbigelow
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23 April 2009 at 5:48pm | IP Logged

What does everyone think of the FSI German course? What kind of level could one expect after both parts 1 and 2 (24 units)?
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Cainntear
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23 April 2009 at 5:51pm | IP Logged

Tabula Rasa wrote:

My friends who have gone through full-time, real-life FSI courses end up somewhere between proficient and
relatively fluent in 6-10 months, so I'm thinking FSI language learning in general must be pretty darn good.

Unfortunately the on-line versions don't come with the innumerable hours in a classroom with the exceptionally skilled and well-qualified native-speaking teacher that your friends will have had....
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30 April 2009 at 1:21am | IP Logged

!LH@N wrote:

I have always heard that people make great results with FSI but I have never found an understandable description of how the course is really supposed to be used (a step by step, idiot proof guide).

Regards,
Ilhan

Check out the first couple pages of the Hungarian course. It does a pretty good job explaining how to use any Basic course, even though I have no interest at all in Hungarian.
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!LH@N
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30 April 2009 at 11:15am | IP Logged

Yes, I was pointed to that too, and it does have very good instructions.
My problem with FSI was always that I was going through the tapes and reading along what to do in the book, but it never seemed to me as if I was doing any progress.
I think I have to stick a little more to it

Regards,
Ilhan
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AlexL
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30 April 2009 at 7:34pm | IP Logged

!LH@N wrote:

I have always heard that people make great results with FSI but I have never found an
understandable description of how the course is really supposed to be used (a step by step, idiot proof guide).

Regards,
Ilhan

I think the courses are all to be used a bit differently. In the Mandarin course, the introduction explains exactly in
what order to work through the tapes and books. Someone posted on the fsi-language-courses forum, as well, an
explanation of how to best use Mandarin for self-study. But I think it is probably different from course to course...

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