James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5162 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French
| Message 9 of 18 03 March 2013 at 2:01pm | IP Logged |
It is a great course. You will speak correctly and fairly confidently, but you will likely crave even more when you are done with it. After completing you will feel like you need more vocabulary and more listening/understanding.
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Martien Heptaglot Senior Member Netherlands martienvanwanrooij.n Joined 6892 days ago 134 posts - 148 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, French Studies: Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Swedish, Arabic (Written)
| Message 10 of 18 04 March 2013 at 3:40pm | IP Logged |
Ericounet wrote:
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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Thank you I will certainly back it up all as soon you will finish the site. Do you know
if the fsi site will we re-opened in the future?
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Ericounet Senior Member France yojik.euRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5222 days ago 157 posts - 414 votes Studies: English, German, Russian
| Message 11 of 18 04 March 2013 at 5:25pm | IP Logged |
Hi,
I don't know. Members here tried to contact the owner without response.
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Mistermark21 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4399 days ago 23 posts - 26 votes Studies: Swedish* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Polish
| Message 12 of 18 15 March 2013 at 1:32pm | IP Logged |
I just found the FSI Spanish in a great little second hand bookshop in Liverpool for just £5!
8 cassette tapes and thick coursebook.
Im gonna go back and get it after work. I had no cash on me at the time.
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James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5162 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French
| Message 13 of 18 15 March 2013 at 6:10pm | IP Logged |
8 cassette tapes and a thick coursebook does not sound like the FSI Basic course. It may be the FSI FAST course or one of the introduction courses. It could be the first quarter of the Basic course too. The Basic course would consist of roughly 60 hours of audio and four text books.
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Mistermark21 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4399 days ago 23 posts - 26 votes Studies: Swedish* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Polish
| Message 14 of 18 16 March 2013 at 3:34pm | IP Logged |
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8 cassette tapes and a thick coursebook does not sound like the FSI Basic course. It may be the FSI FAST course or one of the introduction courses. It could be the first quarter of the Basic course too. The Basic course would consist of roughly 60 hours of audio and four text books. |
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OK so i went back and bought it and its 12 cassettes which are 90 mins each. Its called MASTERING Spanish by Foreign Service Institute.
Cant wait to try it!
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Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5570 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German
| Message 15 of 18 16 March 2013 at 10:34pm | IP Logged |
Mistermark21 wrote:
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8 cassette tapes and a thick coursebook does not sound like
the FSI Basic course. It may be the FSI FAST course or one of the introduction courses.
It could be the first quarter of the Basic course too. The Basic course would consist of
roughly 60 hours of audio and four text books. |
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OK so i went back and bought it and its 12 cassettes which are 90 mins each. Its called
MASTERING Spanish by Foreign Service Institute.
Cant wait to try it! |
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So James29 was right: it's just one level out of the 4.
Edited by Random review on 16 March 2013 at 10:35pm
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James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5162 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French
| Message 16 of 18 17 March 2013 at 1:36am | IP Logged |
Yes, you purchased the first quarter of FSI basic. Congratulations! You can also buy the second quarter in most bookstores (I bought level 2 on Amazon for $0.50) or you can just wait until the FSI website is back up and running.
I must say that all the buzz about FSI on this forum is making me want to do the FSI Basic Spanish course again.
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