evol Triglot Newbie Hong Kong Joined 4090 days ago 28 posts - 39 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French, German, Spanish
| Message 1 of 18 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 Senior Member France yojik.euRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5195 days ago 157 posts - 414 votes Studies: English, German, Russian
| Message 2 of 18 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 Triglot Newbie Hong Kong Joined 4090 days ago 28 posts - 39 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French, German, Spanish
| Message 3 of 18 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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luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6965 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French
| Message 4 of 18 02 March 2013 at 2:57pm | IP Logged |
evol wrote:
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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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Okie Newbie United States phasetransition Joined 4047 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Studies: Spanish
| Message 5 of 18 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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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6669 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 6 of 18 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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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4467 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
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Good, I used it as practically my only source for Swedish.
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dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4782 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 8 of 18 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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