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SunnyDD
Newbie ![]() Joined: 28 December 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 10 |
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I just found this site today, and I am so happy I did. This is truly amazing! I'm in the process of learning spanish and I noticed that the french course has text but the basic spanish course does not. Will the text added at some point?
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daristani
Contributor ![]() Joined: 04 March 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 104 |
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Since no one else has yet weighed in to answer your question, I'll give a quick answer, even though I'm not the most authoritative person to respond: Yes, the text for the entire Basic Spanish course will be put on line, as will all the audio. This is a very big project, though, and will probably take a while, since a small group of people are working on a purely voluntary basis to put materials up in a variety of languages. If I'm not mistaken, the Basic Spanish course consists of 60 lessons in all, with many, many hundreds of pages of text to be digitized. How long the digitization effort will take I don't know, but I suspect that it will be a matter of several months before the entire course is available on the site here.
In the meantime, while I don't think all that much of the Programmatic Spanish course, it can still be useful while waiting for the Basic Spanish course to come on-line. Best of luck in your studies! |
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SunnyDD
Newbie ![]() Joined: 28 December 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 10 |
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Thank you for your reply. I totally understand that this must be a massive undertaking to digitize the audio and video. I'm about half way through Pimsleur, so hopefully I can start on the Spanish Basic when I'm finished. I read from numerous sources that the Spanish Basic FSI course was absolutely the best, and I'm really looking forward to it.
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germinator
Newbie ![]() Joined: 30 December 2006 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 1 |
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I've just discovered this website too...Doing Pimsleur now but will take a look at the FSI after.
Thanks to all the contributors |
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riffin1
Newbie ![]() Joined: 05 December 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 3 |
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I've almost completed Pimsleur, but I take breaks and do random portions of other courses periodically. FSI Basic seems more my speed than programmatic. What I've been meaning to ask is if anyone knows if the Defense Language Institute courses have the same copywrite status as FSI? The Quickstart ones are very interesting.
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smoen
Contributor ![]() Joined: 08 August 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 30 |
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If you are referring to the HeadStart courses, I am fairly confident that they have the same copyright status as the others (none, being in the public domain).
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Chung
Contributor ![]() Joined: 23 May 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 143 |
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I'd be careful with courses from Defense Language Institute even though they are part of the War Department/Department of Defense and thus seemingly excluded from copyright protection in the US.
I recently came upon the old DLI series for Serbo-Croatian at my alma mater's library but noticed that every book in the series had a stamp "US Army - Not authorized for redistribution or resale".
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riffin1
Newbie ![]() Joined: 05 December 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 3 |
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Well, it's an interesting question. One the ones I have, the cassettes are stamped ""Property of the US Government", some of them say "For official use only". The books say that thy're to be used "primarily in support of training military personnel".
I hope that we're not veering wildly off topic with this.
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DemiPuppet
Administrator ![]() Joined: 27 May 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 163 |
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The 1963 DLI Burmese Basic Course Vol 1 inner cover says:
This pamphlet is for the use faculty and staff of the Defense Language Institute solely for official purposes. It is NOT for general distribution. It may NOT be released to other persons, quoted or extracted for publication, or otherwise copied or distributed without specific permission in each instance from the Director, Defense Language Institute. See pretty clear to me... |
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riffin1
Newbie ![]() Joined: 05 December 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 3 |
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Looks like it's different in every one. This is from LA 0090 S "Spanish headstrart for Latin America": Janurary 1984 revision
"This publication is to be used primarily in support of training military personnel as part of the Defense Language Program (resident and nonresident). Inquiries concerning the use of materials, including requests for copies should be addressed to:..."
Doesn't seem as clear as they'd probably like.
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