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Serbo-croatian coarse gone?

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Topic: Serbo-croatian coarse gone?
Posted By: incunabulum
Subject: Serbo-croatian coarse gone?
Date Posted: 29 October 2006 at 4:05pm
Hi,

I was thrilled to find several links to this site that said you had the FSI Serbo-croatian course available.  But I'm unable to find it here. 

Will it be returned sometime in the near future? 

Thanks,
Incunabulum



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Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 29 October 2006 at 4:48pm
Originally posted by incunabulum

Hi,

I was thrilled to find several links to this site that said you had the FSI Serbo-croatian course available.  But I'm unable to find it here. 

Will it be returned sometime in the near future? 

Thanks,
Incunabulum
 
Check this thread out:
 
http://fsi-language-courses.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=42 - http://fsi-language-courses.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=42
 
The Serbo-Croatian course here wasn't much to write about. The textbook that he used was printed very faintly. When I saw it on .pdf here, some of the pages were very hard to see, and a lot of the words on other pages were illegible.
 
gdfellows had only put up the first chapter of the textbook but stopped working on it and eventually removed it for the reasons he mentioned in the link.
 
As far as I know, daristani has lent a copy of the Serbo-Croatian text of Vol. 1 that is of better quality, but that's it. So far no one else here has mentioned having Serbo-Croatian Vol. 2 or any of the audio.


Posted By: daristani
Date Posted: 29 October 2006 at 6:57pm
Just for the record, I have the book (only) to Serbo-Croatian volume II, which I'd be happy to make available to the site if needed.  (I've loaned gdfellows my copy of volume I, which was a bit clearer than the one he had initially put on-line.)  The problem is, evidently, that no one has had a set of the audio tapes available.  Without the audio, this course is, perhaps understandably, not the highest priority for putting on-line.  I picked up the two volumes of Serbo-Croatian at a used -book store or garage sale a number of years ago, but they didn't have the tapes, and so my copies essentially remained in storage for many years.

Hopefully, someone out there will come up with a set of the audio tapes for both volumes and make them available, so that the material can be put up on the site for everyone to benefit from. 

  


Posted By: gdfellows
Date Posted: 29 October 2006 at 7:42pm
I also have a good copy of Volume II.  However, as daristani mentions, until we get a copy of the audio, digitizing the text is our lowest priority.


Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 29 October 2006 at 7:48pm

Sorry, about that. My mistake.

Thanks for clearing that up, gents.


Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 12:49pm
BTW, I see the Cleveland Public Library claims to have a copy of the original FSI tapes...

http://www.cpl.org/ - http://www.cpl.org/



Posted By: Deniz
Date Posted: 20 December 2006 at 3:20pm
I cannot polemize about a priority of posting only the text of the Serbo-croatian course, but I think that many members would benefit from the text even without the tapes.  As I remember, the pronunciation part is very extensive in this course and so learners would not do major mistakes and all their minor flaws can be corrected with the tapes that will come later.


Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 20 December 2006 at 4:32pm
I 'unno, gdfellows idea seems fair to me. I think that it's better to let him finish posting what he's already working on (i.e. Ahmaric, Arabic and Hungarian) before moving on.
 
Besides, Serbo-Croatian has pitch accent with variable stress. You really do need to have the tapes to make the textbook worthwhile (that is, if you want to do more than learn how to read and write). FSI's SC textbooks do mark all of the pitch and stress placement but I think that it'd be hard for a beginner to interpret the pitch markings properly without the tapes. It'd be hard for a novice to know what long rising pitch or short falling pitch or short rising pitch should sound like in SC.
 
At any rate, someone still needs to donate the tapes. Unfortunately, no one so far has stepped up with them.



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