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| breakfastfox Newbie United States Joined 4747 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 17 21 December 2012 at 7:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello all,
It seems as though the FSI course website (fsi-language-courses.org) is down - it has been down for about four days now. Does anyone know if there's a mirror anywhere else, or is anyone willing to mail the mp3s/PDF to me? I'm on unit 11 in Spanish Basic, and I'd hate to have to drop it now. Thanks so much! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4491 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 2 of 17 21 December 2012 at 8:47am | IP Logged | ||
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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5960 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 3 of 17 21 December 2012 at 12:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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I really hope the site comes back online. It's an invaluable resource where Daristani, Oberon, and others, spent a significant effort sourcing, extracting and uploading material. Edited by DaraghM on 21 December 2012 at 12:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 6953 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 4 of 17 21 December 2012 at 1:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm keeping my fingers crossed as well that the site comes back online. Old-timers on the forum will recall that the original FSI courses site was created by forum member gdfellows as a result of discussions on HTLAL, and that it went down temporarily more than once, leading to the creation of the current site as a backup against the event the original one disappeared permanently -- which it eventually did.
In the worst case, even if the site doesn't come back, I've got a few of the courses in my computer, and I'm sure various others do as well, and so it should be possible to reconstitute it to some degree, or minimize the extent of the loss, with a cooperative effort. (Indeed, Quique has already provided one of the most popular courses at the site.) Still, though, let's hope that the site comes back. (Even though there hadn't been many updates recently, it did get plenty of users, per my understanding, and was a real treasure trove to language learners everywhere.) Edited by daristani on 21 December 2012 at 2:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4939 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 5 of 17 21 December 2012 at 2:39pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm sure I'm not the only one to have these courses, but I could contribute both Turkish and Bulgarian, if needed. In any case, I'm sure it'll be back online at some point. I get a 503 message: "Server currently undergoing maintenance.", so the server's still there. R. == Edited by hrhenry on 21 December 2012 at 2:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4656 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 6 of 17 21 December 2012 at 2:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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That is unfortunate. I was hoping to learn a lot of languages via the FSI website.
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| breakfastfox Newbie United States Joined 4747 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English* | Message 7 of 17 21 December 2012 at 3:10pm | IP Logged | ||
Estoy muy agradecido! Thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| HenryMW Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4983 days ago 125 posts - 179 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, French Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 8 of 17 21 December 2012 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Does anyone have the materials downloaded? I have some of the books but I never got
around to the tapes. I have both French Phonology books, the first German book and the Hebrew book. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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