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Tanizaki Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4600 days ago 21 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Japanese
| Message 1 of 25 26 February 2013 at 6:31pm | IP Logged |
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
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emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5332 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 |
Tanizaki wrote:
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. |
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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
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| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6029 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 |
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
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4930 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 |
Tanizaki wrote:
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.
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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.
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| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6029 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 |
hrhenry wrote:
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.
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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!
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| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 6944 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek
| Message 6 of 25 26 February 2013 at 9:01pm | IP Logged |
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
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4507 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 |
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 4930 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 |
liddytime wrote:
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.
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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.
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