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evol
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02 March 2013 at 11:20am | IP Logged 
I once read what was available in the public domain, who they were for and how they were
supposed to be used in sequence. Unfortunately, I did not back it up and the website is
now
down.

So my questions is how much of the basic course is available, and what are the courses
beyond that?

Thank you.

Edited by evol on 02 March 2013 at 2:48pm

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Ericounet
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02 March 2013 at 2:22pm | IP Logged 
Hi,

everything will be available very soon ... I got the structure of the dead website on archive.org, so as soon I got all the material (recordings and books), I'll reconstruct a website which mimicks the old one.

I just need some time ;)

Be patient ;)


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evol
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02 March 2013 at 2:53pm | IP Logged 
That's awesome! Will be a good mimic. This forum is really em... there are so many
crouching tigers and hidden dragons (as we say in Chinese).
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02 March 2013 at 2:57pm | IP Logged 
evol wrote:
So my questions is how much of the basic course is available, and what are the courses beyond that?


The FSI Basic Course is meant to take the student to a pretty high level as far as control of the grammar and it drills a core vocabulary as well as irregular verbs very thoroughly. Although there is FSI material for graduates of a Basic Course, the Basic Course is meant to get the student up to a high level of proficiency, such as ILR level 3 or CEFR level B2.

Edited by luke on 02 March 2013 at 2:58pm

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03 March 2013 at 6:54am | IP Logged 
So how useful is it if you are going it completely alone? I made it a way through French, but gave up. There's no one in my area to practice with (even the local college doesn't offer it!) and there's not many great sources on the web. I switched to Spanish, instead. Similar Romance language, and LOTS more resources. Plus a few native speakers in the area. I'd like to get fairly advanced, at least intermediate if not marginally fluent. In your opinion, can these progams deliver that kind of result with no teacher attached? I welcome anyone's opinion, BTW.
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03 March 2013 at 10:28am | IP Logged 
The first time I read about FSI was when I first found this place and read how our dear administrator learned Spanish (in less than six months):
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/guide/learned-spanish .html
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03 March 2013 at 10:44am | IP Logged 
Good, I used it as practically my only source for Swedish.
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03 March 2013 at 12:29pm | IP Logged 
If you can make it through FSI basic Spanish, you should be able to talk about nearly any subject fairly fluently, and will just have to add lots of extra vocabulary and idioms to the structures you have learnt.

It can definitely deliver the results you want, without a teacher, but it would be worth having a native speaker give you feed back. Of course you should supplement the course with 100's of hours of listening, reading, writing etc.


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