Twi and Other Course Request .. Also Tha
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Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 3:20am
Topic: Twi and Other Course Request .. Also Tha
Posted By: Yonatan
Subject: Twi and Other Course Request .. Also Tha
Date Posted: 10 March 2007 at 10:18pm
First I would like to commend you people and give great honor to you.. I even paid $250 for the swahili course a while back and returned it as some of the tapes for missing recordings. I felt totally ripped off by those guys I bought it from.. Anyhow, I would love to give everyone at this site a big hug for your efforts, your all saintly in what your doing.
Now, I would like to comment that I know there is some FSI courses I see for sale that have not yet made it to the site.. I have travelled to West Africa and currently own the very limited Pimsleur Twi course. I am wondering if anyone has come across the FSI Twi course as of yet?
Also, is there any progress on the creation of an Italian course or acquriing the more advanced FSI French courses Vol 3+ that I see other websites selling for a bundle.
Thanks again.
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Posted By: raincrowlee
Date Posted: 11 March 2007 at 8:21am
Originally posted by Yonatan
the more advanced FSI French courses Vol 3+ that I see other websites selling for a bundle. |
Just so you know, in most cases those French courses actually take the FSI course and cut each of them in half and call them levels 1-4. That way you have to pay twice as much for the same amount of material. I think the general consensus is that FSI vol 1 + 2 is the complete FSI Basic Course.
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Posted By: Poetry
Date Posted: 20 April 2007 at 10:23am
Hi Yonaton,
I have access to the FSI Twi course, most of the African languages, actually. Right now I've pulled Luganda, both the Pre-Training and the Basic Course. I think the Pre-Training course audio may be lost to history unless someone has it, but I'm trying to sweet talk one of my classmates into recording the Luganda pre-training course again. The dialogue and exercises are all in the book, but since Luganda is tonal, that's almost useless without audio.
I am kinda booked up in scanning and recording at the moment because I'm trying to push my Arabic and dialect courses from DLI into electronic form. The books take up a lot of space anyway.
So, I'm working on Luganda because it was "stalled" in the course list with something that I have, and digitizing the several thousand pages and couple of hundred Arabic tapes and books.
If you'd like the Luganda course, I should have the basic course finished soon. I'm going to do the pre-training course after since the tapes can't be located.
--Poetry
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Posted By: ghanachad
Date Posted: 23 April 2007 at 8:40am
Poetry,
I have a great interest in having access to the Twi material. Do you have any plans to complete this course in the near future?
R,
Chad
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Posted By: Yonatan
Date Posted: 23 April 2007 at 8:43am
HIHI.. I have decided to go to Ethiopia now.. I need Amharic course ASAP!! Can anyone help.. I download all the Voice MP3s.. but they are worthless without the text.. Need the textbox.. where can I get it or does someone have yet? I will post this in a seperate thread since its off the subject of Twi..
Thanks
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Posted By: emptysilo
Date Posted: 23 April 2007 at 11:29am
If you need the text ASAP my advice is just to buy the book or go to a local public university and request it through interlibrary loan or check out if they have it. My library has the book. But I would just buy it if you can.
Good luck, ES.
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Posted By: Yonatan
Date Posted: 23 April 2007 at 5:28pm
Thanks where can I get the book cheap, I want to buy it.. The only place I see the book is in those rip-off $300 FSI courses on the internet. I would like to hopefully get the book for under $20 if I can. Also, I don't want to deal with libraries, I just want to have the book. I do not see it on Amazon and it was not at the giant Powells book store in Portland; anyhow, if anyone sees it for sale somewhere let me know.
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Posted By: emptysilo
Date Posted: 23 April 2007 at 7:21pm
Have you tried Portland State library? Even if you are not a student, (and if PSU is a public university) I think you can request it through interlibrary loan.
You are in Portland? If so, OSU in Corvallis has it. Call, see if you can check out things from the library there and drive or request through a school in Portland.
Hope that helps, ES.
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Posted By: Yonatan
Date Posted: 23 April 2007 at 7:50pm
As I said, I would like to own it not get it from a library.. I am going to search through all bookstores I can to purchase the book. Does anyone know if it is possible to order the book through the Foreign Service Institute?
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Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 23 April 2007 at 11:01pm
Funny that you mention that you didn't see it at Powell's because I did.
http://www.powells.com/search/DTSearch/search?PID=338&cgi=search/search&searchtype=isbn&searchfor=0884328082
Going for $38.50 + shipping.
I don't think that you'll find many FSI textbooks at $20 or fewer (unless you buy it from that seller on eBay who's reselling the stuff that he's getting for free from this website). Either those cheap textbooks would be snapped up before you could lay your hands on them, or they're in such beat up condition that you may want to take a pass.
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Posted By: Yonatan
Date Posted: 23 April 2007 at 11:05pm
oops.. think my post got deleted, or sorry if it shows twice, as i said was looking for Amharic course now, not Twi course.. Thanks for the link though.
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Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 23 April 2007 at 11:14pm
Spoken Language Services sells the FSI Amharic course as part of its offerings.
http://pro.spidergraphics.com/spo/spo_start.taf?_function=list&catID=5&_UserReference=D46FB911A734F696462D83EE - http://pro.spidergraphics.com/spo/spo_start.taf?_function=list&catID=5&_UserReference=D46FB911A734F696462D83EE
$45 for each volume. (Vol. 1 has units 1-50; Vol. 2 has units 51-60 but apparently both volumes have 550 pages)
I don't think that you can do better than that for now. Otherwise, sit tight as gdfellows and iieee gradually work on Amharic.
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Posted By: Yonatan
Date Posted: 23 April 2007 at 11:17pm
Wow.. thanks, good linkj.. I think I may just buy the books and tapes since I realize there is actually only view digitzed volumes online in the site.. seems like this Amharic course is very comprehensive. Someone mention that if you write the FSI in Wash Dc and send $2.25 they can send you the entire course or something like that, does anyone know if it is true?
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Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 23 April 2007 at 11:24pm
This is the thread you're probably thinking of:
http://fsi-language-courses.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=266 - http://fsi-language-courses.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=266
And yes it's irritating that the government now only sells its courses through NTIS at prices that are comparable to that of the third-party resellers like Multilingual Books.
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Posted By: emptysilo
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 1:06am
I think it has been said before, but the audio for the Amharic is available online I think in full. Don't need to buy the tapes, just go here.
http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/amharic_a400.html
Other material available. Don't seem to need a password even though it says you do.
Hope that helps, ES.
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Posted By: zoshchenko
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 6:49pm
Originally posted by Chung
And yes it's irritating that the government now only sells its courses through NTIS at prices that are comparable to that of the third-party resellers like Multilingual Books. |
Do they sell more recent versions than we have here on this site?
I was amused to see multilingual.com selling these exact same courses for hundreds of dollars.
I wonder how you say "caveat emptor" in Twi... or Igbo
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Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 10:23am
Originally posted by zoshchenko
Originally posted by Chung
And yes it's irritating that the government now only sells its courses through NTIS at prices that are comparable to that of the third-party resellers like Multilingual Books. |
Do they sell more recent versions than we have here on this site?
I was amused to see multilingual.com selling these exact same courses for hundreds of dollars.
I wonder how you say "caveat emptor" in Twi... or Igbo
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No. The FSI courses on this site are no older than the ones that NTIS sells. The only advantage with Multilingual Books is that some of the courses there can be bought as MP3s (via CD-ROM or download) at around $100 instead of $300-$400 for the courses with books and CDs/tapes.
Other than that, I think that NTIS is the better choice. If you buy from NTIS, almost all of its FSI courses are in the public-domain in the USA, thus you could donate most of the FSI courses obtained from NTIS and allow gdfellows to add more courses to the site.
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Posted By: mmccain
Date Posted: 06 May 2007 at 1:04am
Poetry,
what is Luganda. i need to learn Twi. what are some good learning materials that'a also cheap
thanks
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Posted By: Poetry
Date Posted: 06 May 2007 at 11:07am
Hi,
Luganda is spoken in the lake district in Uganda. It's got about 3 Million speakers, I think. It's tonal. Probably won't help you if you need Twi.
Twi is spoken in Ghana, which is on the western coast of Africa.
--Poetry
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Posted By: mmccain
Date Posted: 06 May 2007 at 8:55pm
so you know where i can get good twi lessons
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Posted By: poliglot
Date Posted: 08 May 2007 at 6:27am
Hi Mmccain,
Maybe I can help you. I have got Twi Basic Course by Audio-Forum and Pimsleur Twi. Tell me if you are interested.
Geranio
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Posted By: mmccain
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 9:29pm
i have that....i need a more advanced teachings...thanks
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Posted By: emptysilo
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 12:41am
The Twi Basic Course from audio-forum should be the same as the FSI one. Probably just a reprint. Just a guess from what I have seen here.
ES.
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Posted By: ghanachad
Date Posted: 16 May 2007 at 12:09pm
I am very interested in any digital material that is available. I have about a year to work on my Twi.
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