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| Will Senior Member United States Joined 6737 days ago 165 posts - 165 votes  | Message 9 of 19 13 December 2006 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks dpoesc! Your post will help a lot of people.
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| Will Senior Member United States Joined 6737 days ago 165 posts - 165 votes | Message 10 of 19 14 December 2006 at 4:52am | IP Logged | |||||
Good of dpoesc to post the links but just so it is known, on the lessons 1-26 page I come up with eleven (11) of the audio file links not working. On the lessons 27-52 page, seventy (70) of the links do not work. It could be any number of reasons why the links do not work. As examples: On the lessons 1-26 page click on lesson 2-08 and the see if the audio plays. On the lessons 27-52 page click on lesson 31-01b. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dpoesc Newbie United States Joined 6404 days ago 29 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 11 of 19 14 December 2006 at 8:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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For some of these, there isn't supposed to be a recording for the lesson, for section 2-08 for example, the workbook and studyguide says you are supposed to review the video or the text work up (2.01 a through e) for the lesson. When I was working through chapter 2 this at first confused me too - I dont know why there is a link there for 2-08 - apparently there is a link for each lesson of the workbook even if there isn't supposed to be a recording for that workbook section.
If you read the workbook and study guides, and read what is required for each lesson, you'll see I mean - if there isn't a little headphone symbol in the workbook for that lesson, then there's no recording you need to listen to. Edited by dpoesc on 14 December 2006 at 10:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Will Senior Member United States Joined 6737 days ago 165 posts - 165 votes | Message 12 of 19 14 December 2006 at 9:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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That explains it
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| Kubelek Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland chomikuj.pl/Kuba_wal Joined 6651 days ago 415 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC2, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 13 of 19 15 December 2006 at 9:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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is the audio useful if you don't have the textbook?
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| dpoesc Newbie United States Joined 6404 days ago 29 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 14 of 19 15 December 2006 at 10:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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The text book isn't really that necessary, but the workbooks and study guides are for the audio tapes to be used, if you don't have the workbooks, only the text workup portion of the audio (the first several audio files for each chapter) will be of any use.
By the way, you can find used text books for as little as $1.00 (the 1987 version) through abebooks, the text book contains a partial transcript of each video and is required for some of the lessons in the workbook. The 1987 version of the textbook is fine, although I heard the newer text books are about twice as many pages and have a lot more info in them, they're about $30.00 used. I've been getting by fine with the older text book. You can also find a transcript for the first 26 programs here link, click on teachers index, then go under suggestions by lesson. You should buy the workbooks new, otherwise they are likely to have lots of writing in them. Make sure you get the 1994 or newer versions of the workbooks, the exercises in the 1987 versions don't match up with the audiofiles on the College of DuPage site. I initially ordered some used 1987 workbooks, there were full of writing and the lessons didn't match up with the audio files. The study guides are necessary if you're using the course on you own, they contain material to help you through the lessons in the workbook. I found used 1994 study guides for about $10 each. Edited by dpoesc on 15 December 2006 at 10:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| rafaelrbp Pentaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 6812 days ago 181 posts - 201 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, English, French, Italian Studies: German | Message 15 of 19 15 December 2006 at 1:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
Some drills require to check the correct answer in the textbook or fill in the blanks. But most of them give grammar explanations or audio variations or even just repeating drills. I like to listen to them, even though I don't have the text workbooks yet. Thanks for the link, by the way! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Farley Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6891 days ago 681 posts - 739 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, GermanB1, French Studies: Spanish | Message 16 of 19 19 December 2006 at 9:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
I agree, but without the textbook, even the text workup files might be difficult.
You can still get a lot out of the audio files without the textbook or workbooks, but you will miss many of the finer points of the course. The audio files are book driven, using both the textbook and workbooks. That is the big drawback to the course, it is not “on the go” friendly and requires the books to piece the course together. If you are just using FIA for listening comprehension it is not a problem. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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