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| HTale Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6189 days ago 164 posts - 167 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written)* Studies: French | Message 1 of 15 21 June 2007 at 1:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Salut!
Unless I can be pointed in some direction otherwise, I have found a laborious method for obtaining the FIA audio which is streamed on this website. The method involves downloading a sound recording program, called FREE Hi-Q recorder, you can google this up; I have forgotten the link. The rest is pretty intelligible to all but the luddites of today; you simply press record and play the audio stream, and the file comes out as an MP3 recording. If at all possible, I may upload the files on to an upload site of some sort, such as bigupload. I pray that if somebody has an easier (free) method of obtaining the audio files in their entirety, that I shall be stopped in my tracks. If that isn't the case, then watch this space! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Farley Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6903 days ago 681 posts - 739 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, GermanB1, French Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 15 21 June 2007 at 2:37pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
You can actually live without the audio. Don’t get me wrong the audio is an excellent course, but if do don’t want to spend the $300 in money or the time in downloads then I recommend doing three things: 1) Buy the FIA textbook and workbooks. 2) Use French audio course to master pronunciation. You can cheat at FSI just by using it as listen and repeat course. SmartFrench is a reasonably priced alternative. 3) Watch the videos until there is nothing to improve. The nothing to improve bit is subjective. Ideally you will get to the point where you can interact with the audio – answer the questions and participate in the dialogs. The FIA audio concentrates on two things: pronunciation and the question and answer you play the role of audio exercises. The pronunciation exercises can be replaced by set 2 above. Once you have a good command on the sound of French, and have watch the videos a few times, the FIA textbook workbooks exercise will fall into place – even without the FIA audio. It takes some persistence, but it works. Edit: Besides the price, the FIA audio is expensive in terms of time. While it is the best course, I found I’ve used courses such as Assimil more than the FIA audio. That is why I’d recommend starting with the video and the books and see if those do the trick before starting to master the audio. The books have a full transcript of the audio program and once you have a good command of French pronunciation you can do the exercise without the audio. Maybe it is not quite the same thing, but it is cheaper in terms of time and money. Once you get a good foundation in French the audio is a great way to simulate conversation, but if you are on a budget there is no reason why you can’t use your imagination and use the videos. Edited by Farley on 21 June 2007 at 4:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| dpoesc Newbie United States Joined 6416 days ago 29 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 3 of 15 22 June 2007 at 10:36am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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That would be great HTale, the problem I have with FIA is that I'm tied to my computer - keep us posted!
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| Sulis Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6262 days ago 60 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 15 26 June 2007 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Yes, I would love to find an easier solution too!
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| LilleOSC Senior Member United States lille.theoffside.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6502 days ago 545 posts - 546 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 5 of 15 05 July 2007 at 2:28pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Easier way: http://www.vatoweb.com/french.html 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sulis Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6262 days ago 60 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 6 of 15 05 July 2007 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Thanks for the link, but it unfortunately does not contain all the audio exercises for FIA - there are many more for each lesson. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| reltuk Groupie United States Joined 6627 days ago 75 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 7 of 15 05 July 2007 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
But the site that they're linking to _does_ have all of the files. You just have to know where to look. For example: http://otter.middlebury.edu/ns-media/frenchmedia/action/07-0 2.mp3 is a live link. All of the audio for the exercises is in that directory, and they are named extremely regularly. I downloaded all of them a couple months back by writing a script that simply tried to download every audio file, from chapter 1 to chapter 52, 01-99. So it would try 02-01.mp3, 02-02.mp3, 02-03.mp3, ..., 02-99.mp3, 03-01.mp3, etc. I also downloaded [0-52]-01[a-z].mp3. If you're interested, I could easily whip up a list of links for you to download later today. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sulis Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6262 days ago 60 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 8 of 15 05 July 2007 at 3:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Thanks - that would be fantastic!
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