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| Przemek Hexaglot Senior Member Poland multigato.blogspot.c Joined 6256 days ago 107 posts - 174 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, SpanishC2, Italian, Portuguese, French Studies: Turkish, Hindi, Arabic (Written) | Message 1 of 3 26 March 2013 at 8:23pm | IP Logged |
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Hi! I know there are some posts about various materials for MSA. But I'd like to ask
about the two specific courses: FSI and DLI. Has anyone tried both of them and could share their opinion? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4670 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 2 of 3 26 March 2013 at 8:40pm | IP Logged |
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I did the first ten lessons of FSI MSA Arabic in 2011. It took me about six weeks, and
it was excruciatingly painful at times. The biggest problem is that there is no answer key, and so if you get stuck on an issue you might be stuck for days while you try and figure it out. I remember being unable to untangle a sentence similar to this: - The ambassador flew on the jet into the national airport. or it might have been ... - The ambassador flew on the national jet into the airport. or ... - The ambassador of the country flew into the airport on the jet. Since each drill is based upon the previous one, once you are stuck, you are stuck for awhile. The good part, though, is like other FSI courses it contains massive amounts of material. It's a writing-based course, so I became much more comfortable with Arabic script. It's worth starting, I just don't think it's as easy for the auto-didact to use like some of the other FSI courses. Edited by kanewai on 26 March 2013 at 8:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Przemek Hexaglot Senior Member Poland multigato.blogspot.c Joined 6256 days ago 107 posts - 174 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, SpanishC2, Italian, Portuguese, French Studies: Turkish, Hindi, Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 3 27 March 2013 at 9:28am | IP Logged |
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Thank you.
Anyone else? I have an impression that FSI course is concentrated more on vocabulary connected with military and consular work, while DLI has more everyday language, but that's just my impression after browsing two books so I may be wrong. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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