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smoen
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Quote smoen Replybullet Topic: Next Course or Course Part Contribution
    Posted: 03 January 2007 at 4:11pm
I am ready to make an additional contribution to the fsi-language-courses.com site, and am trying to determine which course I should next purchase from NTIS.

The first group of course are those currently listed on the status page, missing some components:

1) Hungarian Reader Text
2) Serbo-Croation Basic Tapes
3) Spanish Programmatic Vol 2 Text
4) Vietnamese Basic, Volume 2 (text and tapes)

This second list contains those courses which I believe have had the greatest number of requests:

1) Modern Written Arabic, Volumes 1 and 2 (text and tapes)
2) Cambodian Basic Course (text and tapes)
3) German, A Programmed Introduction
4) Beginning Japanese, Parts 1 and 2 (text and tapes)
5) Korean Basic Course, Volume 1 (text and tapes)
6) Thai Basic Course, Volumes 1 and 2 (text and tapes)

And finally, what I consider to be the exotic languages

1) Bulgarian Basic Course
2) Chinyanja Basic Course
3) Hausa Basic Course
4) Igbo Basic Course
5) Kirundi Basic Course
6) Kituba Basic Course
7) Luganda Basic Course
8) More Basic Course
9) Shona Basic Course
10) Sinhalese Basic Course

Of course, this is how I categorize them, yours may differ.  I will buy a minimum of ONE (more if it's not too expensivie) of the above listed courses/course parts, based on forum members ideas, wants and wishes. I will also communicate with gdfellows. I am inclined to go with completing the Group 1 courses listed above, unless there is an unusual demand from you'all for one of those in Group 2.

I will digitize the tapes, no problem, but someone will need to volunteer to scan the texts, if needed. I'll take input via this forum for about 10 days, then will let you know what course(s) will be ordered.

Corrections/additions/comments welcomed.

NOTE: I included, in the 3 groups above, only the BASIC courses, no Headstart or Survival Courses.

smoen

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Quote Chung Replybullet Posted: 03 January 2007 at 4:32pm
Since it's your treat, just go with your strongest inclination. Namely, "fill in a blank" with something from the 1st group.
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Quote raincrowlee Replybullet Posted: 03 January 2007 at 8:49pm
What he said. Your dime, your choice.

I would recommend that, since you can digitize tapes but not scan books, then it might be best to get the Serbo-Croatian tapes, because I think everyone who can easily scan is scanning something or another. That way you know your purchase will be posted.

But, really, it's up to you.
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Quote sepulnation Replybullet Posted: 03 January 2007 at 11:46pm
personally id love to see more arabic on this site but its your money and if something else would help more people since it would complete the courses already here i think that would be a great value. and i just want to say i and im sure everyone else really appreciates your contribution to the site
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Quote nieuk Replybullet Posted: 04 January 2007 at 4:44am
As the others have said.. your penny, your pick. I'll offer my insight though; since you asked :P
 
The Group 1 options are the most sensible, as they would round out those courses.
 
And of the Group 2 options, my logic would say Cambodian Basic or Korean Basic Vol 1 - since Cambodian is being started and the Basic would complete that (??), and most people would find Korean Vol 2 useless without Vol 1.
 
Honestly, I would put Vietnamese Vol 2 in your Group 2 as well.
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Quote raincrowlee Replybullet Posted: 04 January 2007 at 7:29am
Oh, and I just wanted to point out that, after Swahili, the African languages with the largest number of speakers are Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. If you wanted to do an exotic, I'd say either Hausa or Igbo, or maybe Bulgarian.
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Quote morprussell Replybullet Posted: 04 January 2007 at 6:56pm
I would vote for the Serbo-Croatian course or the Korean Basic Course, Volume 1.  Whatever you decide to go with I'm sure it will be appreciated.
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Quote Deniz Replybullet Posted: 06 January 2007 at 4:16pm
That is great from you, smoen. From the lists given, I would vote for completing serbo-croatian, as only the tapes are needed and MSA, because the rest of the arabic material is already available and the MSA course would be a cherry on the cake for arabic learners.

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Quote daristani Replybullet Posted: 06 January 2007 at 6:24pm
Smoen, if you should decide to go for the MSA, I've got volume 1 of the book (only, no tapes) that I'd be happy to send to whoever might be able to do the digitizing, so if you're going to purchase materials, there's no need to pay for the MSA volume 1 book. 
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Quote patuco Replybullet Posted: 07 January 2007 at 10:00am
Like others have said, go for what you want since you're going to be spending your money.

However, it makes sense to me to "finish off" the courses which have already been started before getting new ones.
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