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| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4510 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 1 of 11 21 August 2012 at 6:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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Anyone have an opinion on this specific course? If not, any opinions on the Head Start
series in general? Thanks! http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Norwegian 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4965 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 2 of 11 21 August 2012 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It seems pretty much focused on touristic situations. If your goal is to learn Norwegian more extensively, i'd recommend something else like Hugo's Norwegian in Three Months.
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| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6028 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 11 21 August 2012 at 5:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yeah, the "Head Start" series were intended for just that; a "Head Start" for diplomats assigned at the last-minute to
a foreign country. The courses are intended to be a bare-bones, crash course to get the basics down with the intention of the diplomat picking up much more once on assignment. That being said, they aren't bad. They teach 300 or so high frequency words and it looks like Norwegian has 4 hours of audio. I would say that it is a good alternative to Pimsleur or Teach Yourself if you are starting from scratch. If you are more advanced, it probably wouldn't offer you more than a quick review! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4510 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 11 21 August 2012 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Nice, thanks for the replies. I had actually bought a used "Norwegian in 3 Months" and a "Teach Yourself," but they were older copies that had no audio, so I was thinking to using something with audio would be a good idea. So, I was thinking of maybe using "Head Start" in conjunction with Klouman's "Learn Norwegian" since both have audio
I am a total beginner, so getting ~300 high frequency words while having legit audio sounds pretty solid :) The intro says that "Head Start" consists of 8 units with 5 sections each. This will actually be my first ever time to use anything from DLI (I've never used FSI either), so any input on how long each should take? I'd assume with what it was designed for, it isn't something to last months and months. But any input on pacing would be great. 1 unit a week a decent pace? More? Less? Edited by ericblair on 21 August 2012 at 7:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4929 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 5 of 11 21 August 2012 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
This doesn't include audio, but the Norword Reprise site, together with the Verb of the week link on the same page, will give you good exposure to high frequency words and conjugations. This grew into a more complete course later on, but what's on their web page is free. R. == 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6028 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 6 of 11 22 August 2012 at 6:42am | IP Logged | |||||
I'll bet if you put in an hour or two a day you could get through the whole course in 1-2 months and then move on to an intermediate course. Now that I'm thinking of it Pod101 has a Norwegian course now (either called Norwegian Pod or Norwegian Class 101). I used the Russian Intermediate Series and it was really good! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4510 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 7 of 11 22 August 2012 at 8:13am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks for the tip on how long I should use Head Start for :) I just signed up for Norwegian Pod 101. I don't really have the money to spare to pay for an account, but do you know if the free stuff there is very quality (or worth the effort to go back for) or do I really need to spend the money to make it worth my time? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4510 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 8 of 11 22 August 2012 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Does anyone know how to download the audio links from the FSI site?
http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Norwegian I'd really like to be able to download those so I can put them on my mp3 player and use them anywhere. I am sure it is possible, but I am just not that gifted in the arena of computer skills. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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