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Squiggly
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Message 25 of 48

30 July 2010 at 9:22pm | IP Logged

Elexi wrote:

Unless that link has changed, it does not contain the whole audio for FIA - Its missing about 2/3rds per lesson and contains the text work up only (what you are supposed to do directly after watching the video). This is pretty useful in itself but the exercises for the 2 workbooks and the summary quizzes are missing (or at least they were last time I looked)

If you downloaded the 1.7 gigabyte zip file and still can write that it does not contain all of the French in Action audio, I do not know what you downloaded or else I am missing something. By the way the zip file on the link is the same as it has always been. It was uploaded to the otter.middlebury.edu server in March of 2003 and someone posted a link to it on this forum about a year ago.

For others that may need to know, there is an audio player embedded in the web pages in the download that requires Quicktime to be installed for the audio player to work. If you do not have Quicktime and do not want to install it, the mp3 files are all located in one folder and these mp3 files can be used in any player that can read mp3 files.

Edited by Squiggly on 30 July 2010 at 9:24pm
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Message 26 of 48

30 July 2010 at 10:54pm | IP Logged

You are right, my apologies - I did download a link from that site before and it took me to part 1 - So thank you very much! You are a scholar and a gent!

Edit - Although the Summary Quizzes that accompany the study guides are missing - Its only one short file per lesson, so its no big loss.

I have them, so they are not too hard to get.

Edited by Elexi on 30 July 2010 at 11:41pm
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Message 27 of 48

30 July 2010 at 10:56pm | IP Logged

Squiggly wrote:

or else I am missing something.

I downloaded the entire file. Is that everything?

I can see from the above post that it is - ignore.

Edit2: I've only listened to the first few audio files for some of the lessons which seemed to relate directly to the videos. It seemed possible to use these without any of the textbooks

What other exercises does the audio provide and are they usable without the textbooks?

Edited by Andy E on 30 July 2010 at 11:02pm
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Message 28 of 48

30 July 2010 at 11:49pm | IP Logged

If I am correct, the files are available to stream anytime here:

http://www.vatoweb.com/french.html

From what I have listened to, they sounded pimsluerish to me. Maybe I should revisit them
as I am loving the video's at the moment. I feel like I am starting to understand in
french, which is different to my Italian experiences where understanding came in the form
of the common beginner technique of on the fly translating the 2nd language back to
english.
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Elexi
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Message 29 of 48

31 July 2010 at 12:02am | IP Logged

Now, those files ARE just the text workup - A kind of immediate revision that you do directly after watching the video lesson to build on what you have just seen and to practice the language.

The workbooks and the audio exercises that accompany them (part of the link posted by Squiggly) contain exercises in grammar, listening comprehension and substitution type drills.

Edited by Elexi on 31 July 2010 at 12:04am
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Message 30 of 48

31 July 2010 at 1:02am | IP Logged

Elexi wrote:

Edit - Although the Summary Quizzes that accompany the study guides are missing - Its only one short file per lesson, so its no big loss.

This is significant information you have provided.

The last time I checked the complete FIA audio could be found online at three different sources and all three sources were schools of some type and they all had the exact number of audio files that are found in the otter.middlebury.edu action.zip download. This would imply that that the audio files that schools were given are missing the audio for the study guide summary quizzes. I wonder why they would be missing this audio.

So all of the audio for FIA is not present in the zip file download. Albeit just a small portion is missing. It is missing just the same. I can live without the summary quiz audio but that it is missing is good to know.

Edited by Squiggly on 31 July 2010 at 1:02am
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Message 31 of 48

31 July 2010 at 2:00am | IP Logged

A search turned up the study quide summary quiz audio. All of the files downloaded, however I haven't listened to them all. :)

http://yalepress.yale.edu/FiA/summaryquizzes/

Thanks again Elexi for letting us know the audio was missing from the zip file download.
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Message 32 of 48

06 August 2010 at 11:26am | IP Logged

Hey guys,
I'm also doing FIA at 17th lesson, twice every single of them.
Since I'm pretty busy, my progress is relatively slow one lessson per week.
I've gathered most of the media mentioned: the videos (52 episodes), the complete audios and workbooks (1 to 26 of 52, sadly). Planning to grab a workbook part 2 from Amazon. audios and workbooks are indispensible parts of the course, IMO.
Intructions on how to get audios: they're available at

http://otter.middlebury.edu/ns-media/frenchmedia/action/03-0 0.mp3
http://otter.middlebury.edu/ns-media/frenchmedia/action/03-0 1a.mp3
http://otter.middlebury.edu/ns-media/frenchmedia/action/03-0 1b.mp3
http://otter.middlebury.edu/ns-media/frenchmedia/action/03-0 1c.mp3
http://otter.middlebury.edu/ns-media/frenchmedia/action/03-0 1d.mp3
http://otter.middlebury.edu/ns-media/frenchmedia/action/03-0 1e.mp3
http://otter.middlebury.edu/ns-media/frenchmedia/action/03-0 2.mp3
http://otter.middlebury.edu/ns-media/frenchmedia/action/03-0 3.mp3
http://otter.middlebury.edu/ns-media/frenchmedia/action/03-0 4.mp3
http://otter.middlebury.edu/ns-media/frenchmedia/action/03-0 5.mp3
http://otter.middlebury.edu/ns-media/frenchmedia/action/03-0 6.mp3

Of course, this is just part of lesson 3, but you may easily figure out the rest (hint: none of them are indexed beyond 50)
Then just import them to a download manager and allez-y, you have them all downloaded.

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