Marchal Diglot Senior Member Germany christian-renner.deRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5928 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Latin
| Message 1 of 12 16 May 2010 at 12:35am | IP Logged |
I would like to take the four levels of FSI French. I am not sure where best to get them from. I ordered Barron Mastering French 1 and 2 - but apparently these are abridged versions of the first two levels only. I looked at multilingualbooks.com which offers all four leves with printed books - but the price is rather heavy (about 1000 US dollars alltogether). I would like to have the books in a printed out form and I do not have the equipment to print out thousands of pages myself. Any idea where I could get things a bit cheaper :-)? I am living in Germany, btw - which adds customs fees to the whole, as well. Is there a market for used copies?
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kerateo Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5441 days ago 112 posts - 180 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian
| Message 2 of 12 16 May 2010 at 1:56am | IP Logged |
Download at http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php
and then print at office depot or whatever you find in Germany, or just buy and Ipad...
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Marchal Diglot Senior Member Germany christian-renner.deRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5928 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Latin
| Message 3 of 12 16 May 2010 at 7:46am | IP Logged |
There seem to be only level 1 and 2 on the FSI website. Or do they count differently (I thought there were 4 levels)?
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kerateo Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5441 days ago 112 posts - 180 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian
| Message 4 of 12 16 May 2010 at 8:30am | IP Logged |
Every level in the FSI website accounts for two in the barron series, so yes, everything is in there
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maaku Senior Member United States Joined 5369 days ago 359 posts - 562 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 5 of 12 16 May 2010 at 11:22am | IP Logged |
There were only ever two levels--some publishers split each level in half so they could sell you four packages and make more money.
Return the Barron's copies if you can. I assure you that they are not abridged, but it is so much cheaper to print the PDF's yourself at a copy center, and it's perfectly legit. You may even find the audio quality better in the MP3's..
Edited by maaku on 16 May 2010 at 11:23am
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Marchal Diglot Senior Member Germany christian-renner.deRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5928 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Latin
| Message 6 of 12 16 May 2010 at 11:25am | IP Logged |
Thanks all!
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Marchal Diglot Senior Member Germany christian-renner.deRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5928 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Latin
| Message 7 of 12 16 May 2010 at 12:02pm | IP Logged |
maaku wrote:
There were only ever two levels--some publishers split each level in half so they could sell you four packages and make more money.
Return the Barron's copies if you can. I assure you that they are not abridged, but it is so much cheaper to print the PDF's yourself at a copy center, and it's perfectly legit. You may even find the audio quality better in the MP3's.. |
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Would you have the printouts bound? I guess it would be hard to work with loose sheats of paper, wouldn it? Or put them into a ring binder? What would be more practical?
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maaku Senior Member United States Joined 5369 days ago 359 posts - 562 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 8 of 12 17 May 2010 at 6:42am | IP Logged |
I had access to a laser printer at my last job.. so I have the units printed out and clipped with binder clips. Works for me. I find loose sheets of paper better (with clips for transport), but that's a highly individual thing; everybody is different.
Good luck!
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