tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 3845 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 1 of 8 14 January 2014 at 10:32am | IP Logged |
Hi all,
are there other methods similar to FSI for languages that are not covered by it?
For example, I'm studying Dutch and Persian but there isn't a course for them.
Sub-questions: there are classes of languages which the FSI method doesn't apply very
well?
Thank you very much in advance.
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ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7036 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog
| Message 2 of 8 14 January 2014 at 11:25am | IP Logged |
Well out there is Teach Yourself & Assimil. I think the second one might only be
available in French, which depending on how good yours is now, might not be a problem. It
might be your best choice just based on hours of audio. I would not worry about the
*exact* method too much.
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luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7003 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French
| Message 3 of 8 14 January 2014 at 11:34am | IP Logged |
The Defense Language Institute (DLI) Courses are very similar to FSI and they have Dutch and Persian and many other languages.
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geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4486 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian
| Message 4 of 8 14 January 2014 at 4:17pm | IP Logged |
ElComadreja wrote:
Well out there is Teach Yourself & Assimil. I think the second one
might only be
available in French, which depending on how good yours is now, might not be a problem. It
might be your best choice just based on hours of audio. I would not worry about the
*exact* method too much. |
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There is a Persian Assimil with an Italian base. See assimil.it. Dutch is only in French,
English and German, from what I can tell.
EDIT: Nevermind, I was wrong. The Persian courses do indeed seem to be all in French.
Edited by geoffw on 14 January 2014 at 4:21pm
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daristani Senior Member United States Joined 6942 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek
| Message 5 of 8 14 January 2014 at 4:33pm | IP Logged |
FSI actually did produce a Persian course, although it's not as extensive as some of their other courses.
You can download a PDF here: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED053628.pdf
The audio is available here: http://www.iu.edu/~celtie/persian_archive.html
Since audio is not available for the first few lessons of the DLI Persian course cited above, starting with the FSI course and then moving on the the DLI course might be a useful approach for those who like courses of this type.
ADDENDUM: The PDFs for the DLI Persian course can be found here:
http://eric.ed.gov/?q=persian+basic+course
The audio (but not for the first volume) is here: https://jlu.wbtrain.com/sumtotal/language/DLI%20basic%20cour ses/Persian/Audio%20Only/
Edited by daristani on 14 January 2014 at 4:39pm
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 3845 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 6 of 8 17 March 2014 at 7:36pm | IP Logged |
I unexplainably forgot to thank you all!
Thanks a million!
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Mutant Groupie United States Joined 3709 days ago 45 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German
| Message 7 of 8 18 March 2014 at 1:46am | IP Logged |
I don't know about the Dutch course, but the Linguaphone course for Thai reminds me of an FSI course in some respects. Most of the exercises are drill-type. Maybe the Dutch course is the same way?
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Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5363 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 8 of 8 18 March 2014 at 12:13pm | IP Logged |
It isn't. The Linguaphone Dutch course, which is from the 1980s, is not like the
earlier 1970s courses that had FSI like exercises attached to the back of each lesson.
Its more conversation based.
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