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| ashshea Newbie United States Joined 5167 days ago 19 posts - 19 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 1 of 6 15 March 2010 at 2:13am | IP Logged | ||
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What's the best way to use the FSI text? Especially- do you recommend following along in the text while doing the audio drills or not following along? The problem is that the text gives you the answers. Is this okay? What do you think?
By the way, I just started FSI French Basic. Edited by ashshea on 15 March 2010 at 2:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Breogan Bilingual Tetraglot Groupie Spain Joined 5703 days ago 42 posts - 48 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Galician*, French, English Studies: German, Russian, Arabic (classical) | Message 2 of 6 15 March 2010 at 3:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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You follow the text only in the presentation of lessons and in grammar points. There you have the vocabulary and structures you'll have to use in the drills.
Obviously you can always take a look at the text when you don't understand anything :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6696 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 6 15 March 2010 at 5:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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So far, I havent used the texts while studying with FSI, primarily because I have mainly listened to the lessons (in my mp3 player) while taking a walk or exercising. If you're a complete beginner, you may want more instructions, but for me, the grammar concepts of the lessons were never completely new.
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| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5310 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 4 of 6 15 March 2010 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm, the FSI Finnish text includes a whole bunch of classroom exercises and exercises which have answers that only the teacher's textbook includes >.<
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6943 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 5 of 6 15 March 2010 at 6:01pm | IP Logged | ||
For FSI Finnish, the workbook is a better bet for self-instruction since it does include answers to its drills. The answers are either recorded on the .mp3s or printed on one side of the page - just cover the side with the answers when doing the exercises. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5938 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 6 of 6 16 March 2010 at 10:42am | IP Logged | ||
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I used to read the text separately to doing the audio drills, but now I'm using them together. I normally read through the entire text once without audio, and then listen to the audio when I'm walking. At my first read through the lesson, I try to complete the drills in my head. When I then listen to the audio, I'll look at the associated text once, and then listen to the audio by itself. This means I end up seeing the answers to the drills, but that actually helps reinforce the subsequent re-iterations of the same drill. Edited by DaraghM on 16 March 2010 at 10:46am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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