FSI Language Courses Forum http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum This is an XML content feed of; FSI Language Courses Forum : Last 10 Posts Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:22:27 +0000 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:49:59 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 8.05 30 fsi-language-courses.com/forum/RSS_topic_feed.asp FSI Language Courses Forum http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/../images/fsilogo.jpg http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum Problem Reports : Reading Lao - link to mp3 39 http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=624&PID=2732#2732 Author: jpfishburn
Subject: Reading Lao - link to mp3 39
Posted: 04 July 2008 at 7:49pm

That link works fine, many thanks.]]> Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:49:59 +0000 http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=624&PID=2732#2732 General Discussion : English Course Canada http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=626&PID=2731#2731 Author: Aishia22
Subject: English Course Canada
Posted: 03 July 2008 at 9:28pm

Hello to all out there! I am writing to share our recent experience ofbeing a host family for a German girl here in Canada. Due to a tightworking schedule starting right after university I never had the timeor chance to go abroad and experience different cultures through a stayabroad. But I always wanted to get in touch with other cultures andlearn about them. So I decided to bring the cultural experience to meand my family.

Until last week aGerman girl who took anEnglishcourse Canada stayed with us. It was a great adventure and a bigsuccess for both sides. Her English was already pretty good as shealready took a two-weekSprachkursHawai ” last year and we had no problems at all to communicatewith her. While she of course was able to further deepen her languageskills and to experience the Canadian culture in a Canadian family wealso learned a lot about her culture and Europe as a whole. She cookedtypical German meals for us and even taught us a little German! In facther and my daughter (who are almost the same age) became really goodfriends so my daughter decided to continue the cultural exchange andvisit her in Germany next year! There they will explore Germany andafter that they are planning on doing a tour through Great Britaintogether. Can anyone give me advice on how to travel best through theGreat Britain? Does anyone have any experience with the British railpasses? I think this is a great chance for my daughter and I wasable to see from our guest how much one can gain through such a stayabroad.

All in all this was a greatopportunity for us to widen our horizons and I would recommend this toanyone who is open-minded and wants to get in touch with othercultures.]]> Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:28:23 +0000 http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=626&PID=2731#2731 General Discussion : FSI Language Courses http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=625&PID=2730#2730 Author: Chung
Subject: FSI Language Courses
Posted: 03 July 2008 at 8:44am

They come from the State Department. The official source for these courses is NTIS.gov which is the American government's distributor of government-related documents and resources.

Here's a link to the list of FSI courses that NTIS sells to common folk.

http://www.ntis.gov/products/nac_browse.aspx (look on the screen's right)

You can sometimes find second-hand copies of the original courses for sale on e-Bay or the database of bookfinder.com.

Because most FSI courses are in the public domain in the USA (however we've had some arguments on this forum about the status of what is presented as the FSI Japanese course), sellers on e-Bay and private companies copy these courses and resell them - sometimes even applying copyright protection on them. Some of these companies are Barron's, Multilingual Books, Plurality Language and Audio Forum.


Edited by Chung - 03 July 2008 at 8:49am]]> Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:44:11 +0000 http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=625&PID=2730#2730 General Discussion : FSI Language Courses http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=625&PID=2729#2729 Author: Animal44
Subject: FSI Language Courses
Posted: 03 July 2008 at 6:58am

Where do the original courses come from? They are mentioned on the FSI website, but no indication where or how you can get them.

I'm interested in a Japanese course... 

]]> Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:58:59 +0000 http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=625&PID=2729#2729 Problem Reports : Reading Lao - link to mp3 39 http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=624&PID=2728#2728 Author: DemiPuppet
Subject: Reading Lao - link to mp3 39
Posted: 01 July 2008 at 8:07pm

Try the following link:

http://fsi-language-courses.com/Courses/Lao/Reading%20Lao/FSI%20-%20Reading%20Lao%20-%20Tape%2039%20-%20F096A.mp3
]]> Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:07:23 +0000 http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=624&PID=2728#2728 Problem Reports : Reading Lao - link to mp3 39 http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=624&PID=2727#2727 Author: jpfishburn
Subject: Reading Lao - link to mp3 39
Posted: 01 July 2008 at 4:09pm

Hi, many thanks for the great site. As the subject lines states; reading lao no.39 will not download??
'requested site is unavailable or cannot be found'.
 
Cheers
]]> Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:09:31 +0000 http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=624&PID=2727#2727 Chinese (Standard) : Learning Chinese Characters http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=431&PID=2726#2726 Author: lucvileyn
Subject: Learning Chinese Characters
Posted: 30 June 2008 at 3:13pm

I'm working on the optional modules transcribing the dialogues to characters (in collaboration with a Chinese teacher).
 
For all those who did pimsleur (mandarin III) before fsi, I have transcriptions in simplified and traditional Chinese, also a writing dictionary.
 
Feel free to take a look and comment (files are in pdf).
 
http://www.pimsleur-mandarin-level-iii-transcripts.cn/
 
]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:13:59 +0000 http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=431&PID=2726#2726 Chinese (Standard) : Learning Chinese Characters http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=431&PID=2725#2725 Author: Lars
Subject: Learning Chinese Characters
Posted: 30 June 2008 at 11:37am

For those of you who are working through the FSI Mandarin Chinese course and want to learn how to recognize and write the characters, I suggest you check out this post on Language Log:
 
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=189
 
There is a new Chinese newspaper produced specifically for people learning the language: all characters have their equivalents written out in Pinyin.  The linguist who wrote this post said that if you use this method you need not write out every character dozens of times in order to learn them.
 
Hope this helps.
]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:37:26 +0000 http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=431&PID=2725#2725 Problem Reports : Can't download Book 1 for Spanish basic course http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=588&PID=2724#2724 Author: jessicarox
Subject: Can't download Book 1 for Spanish basic course
Posted: 28 June 2008 at 4:00pm

thanks for the link! Clap



Edited by jessicarox - 28 June 2008 at 4:02pm]]> Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:00:29 +0000 http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=588&PID=2724#2724 General Discussion : Luganda audio? http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=623&PID=2723#2723 Author: fjbosko
Subject: Luganda audio?
Posted: 27 June 2008 at 7:30pm

 I am going to Uganda. I downloaded the Luganda SFI book and I need the audio.

Does anybody know where can I get it from?

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