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| Tanizaki Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4589 days ago 21 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1 of 25 26 February 2013 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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As of 2/26/2013, the FSI website is still down. While I remain hopeful that it will return, I think the prudent thing to do is assume the worst and prepare to restore it. Many of us have benefited from others' time and resources in creating and maintaining the archive, so I think now is the time to pay back.
I propose that between us, we should all have the complete archive in bits and pieces on our own hard drives. Let's upload them to upload sites such as 4shared and then link here on the forum and/or a page on our wiki. I think that is a good stop-gap measure. Then, we may consider another option. To follow will be a list of all of the FSI Courses that were on the site at the time it last went down. Let's pledge to upload courses. Once you have uploaded it somewhere, post the link and the course(s) in this thread and I will edit this post accordingly with hyperlinks and noting the contributor's name in parenthesis. Amharic Basic Course Arabic Written Arabic Levantine Arabic Saudi Arabic (Tanizaki) Comparative Arabic Courses Bulgarian Basic Course Cambodian Cambodian Basic Course Contemporary Cambodian Cantonese Basic Course Chinese – Standard Chinese: A Modular Approach Chinyanja Basic Course Czech FAST Finnish – Conversational Finnish Course French Introduction to French Phonology French Basic Le Monde Francophone Testing Kit – French and Spanish French FAST Course Headstart for Belgium Fula Basic Course German German Programmed Introduction Course German Basic Course German FAST German Headstart Greek Basic Course Hausa Basic Course Hebrew Basic Course Hindi: An Active Introduction Hungarian Hungarian Basic Course Hungarian Basic Reader Igbo Basic Course Italian Italian FAST Italian Programmed Course Italian Headstart Japanese FAST Course Kirundi Basic Course Kituba Basic Course Korean Korean Basic Course (new) Korean Basic Course (Original) Korean Headstart Lao Lao Basic Course Reading Lao Lingala Lingala Basic Course Luganda Moré Basic Course Norwegian Polish Portuguese Portuguese Programmatic From Spanish to Portuguese Portuguese FAST Romanian Reference Grammar Russian Russian: An Active Introduction Russian FAST Serbo-Croatian Basic Course Shona Basic Course Sinhala Basic Course Spanish Spanish Programmatic Spanish Basic Spanish FAST Suplemento para Secretarias Testing Kit - French and Spanish Headstart for Latin America Headstart for Puerto Rico Headstart for Spain Swahili Swahili Basic Course Swahili: An Active Introduction Swedish Basic Course Tagalog Headstart for the Philippines Thai Basic Course Turkish Basic Course Twi Basic Course Vietnamese Vietnamese Basic Course Vietnamese Familiarization Course Yoruba Yoruba Basic Course Yoruba Intermediate Texts Edited by Tanizaki on 26 February 2013 at 6:32pm 8 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5321 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 25 26 February 2013 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | ||
I know that some people were uploading courses to the Internet Archive, as mentioned in another thread. The great thing about the Internet Archive is that they have serious funding, and that they're committed to serious, long-term storage of almost the entire Internet. So even if somebody ultimately wants to make another nice "FSI courses" site, or to share things via online sharing platforms, we should probably try to make copies at the Internet Archive, too. That way it will be much easier to recover the courses the next time a site goes down. Edited by emk on 26 February 2013 at 7:06pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6018 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 25 26 February 2013 at 7:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have uploaded a whole bunch of courses to ericunet's
www.yojik.eu site namely Korean1 and 2 Vietnamese1 Swahili More Yoruba Igbo More Turkish 1 and 2 Cambodian Hausa and Shona Hungarian 1 and 2 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4919 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 4 of 25 26 February 2013 at 8:23pm | IP Logged | ||
A lot, if not all of these courses are already up on filesharing services. You can find most of them by virtually visiting Uzbekistan (for good or bad). R. == 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6018 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 5 of 25 26 February 2013 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | ||
The problem with "Uzbekistan" is most of the links are dead after a few months and many of the file sharing sites it uses are blocked in many countries. I suppose there is also the torrent option, I haven't looked into that one yet. The FSI site was great because you could just pop on and download - say, you needed the audio for Greek unit 9A, and boom! There it was! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 6933 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 6 of 25 26 February 2013 at 9:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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A number of different courses have already been uploaded to various places as listed in the thread entitled "FSI site down?" just a bit farther down...
Another suggestion for those uploading materials: I think it would be useful, if possible, for courses to be uploaded in bulk, i.e., the book and/or the audio for a given volume of a course as a zip file, if not too big, rather than split up by individuals lessons as on the FSI site(s). This would make it easier to download or transfer the courses, rather than having to depend on a given website's always being available to utilize on-line. ADDENDUM: I see from the above that Liddytime seems to prefer the arrangement of individual units; to each his own, I guess. Re the Yojik site, the FSI courses that Liddytime provided seem to be uploaded on this specific page: http://fsi-dli.yojik.eu/ Edited by daristani on 26 February 2013 at 9:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4496 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 7 of 25 26 February 2013 at 9:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Right, does anybody have volume 2 of the Serbo-Croatian textbook? Preferably with audio?
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4919 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 8 of 25 27 February 2013 at 4:29am | IP Logged | ||
Truthfully, I'm not a big fan of the UZ site. I only mentioned it because it's currently another option. Any of these file sharing sites are going to suffer the same dead links problem as time goes by. That's the nature of these file sharing sites, unless you're a paying member. With the recent expanded offerings from Box or Skydrive, I suppose one could create an "FSI" account and place all the files there. I took advantage of the free 25G from both Skydrive and Box, and Box has recently upped their free offer to 80G, although I doubt that's still available. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful |
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