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Quote Zorglub Replybullet Topic: Arabic audio FSI course
    Posted: 14 October 2006 at 3:05pm
Well well, unfortunately there is no Arabic FSI audio course here. Are they copyrighted ?
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Quote gdfellows Replybullet Posted: 14 October 2006 at 6:33pm
No, they are not copyrighted; we just haven't gotten them digitized yet.  All of the FSI courses are not yet available here, but I hope to have them all posted one day.  
 
I have the Saudi Arabic Urban Hijazi dialect materials, but I have not yet digitized them.  I am working on completing French and Chinese first.  I will get to them soon!
 
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Quote r438 Replybullet Posted: 31 October 2006 at 10:04pm
Sorry.  I think I said mid-October in my original message (to do Saudi Arabic Urban Hijazi) and didn't meet that deadline.  I just finished scanning the Saudi Arabic text, so hopefully you'll see it up soon.  
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Quote Guests Replybullet Posted: 10 December 2006 at 2:36pm
I have the whole Arabic Hijazi in mp3 format (encoded from my original audio CDs). But they'll take about 400MBs in 64 kbit/sec...
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Quote Chung Replybullet Posted: 10 December 2006 at 2:42pm
Send a PM to gdfellows to make sure that the CDs that you got did not come from a 3rd party reseller such as Multilingual Books, LanguageInnovations, learn-how-to-speak.com or Audio Forum among others.
 
We've been digitalizing stuff that comes straight from NTIS or original government stuff that is borrowed from libraries or bought at yard sales.
 
Incidentally, we've been digitalizing audio for some time now as 32kb/sec. in mono. It seems to sound fine. Some of the earlier MP3s were done at 64kb/sec. in mono but after finding no audible difference between speech at 32kb and 64kb, we started switching to 32kb to save space.
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Quote Guests Replybullet Posted: 10 December 2006 at 2:56pm
I got my CDs durectly from FSI along with the book.
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Quote Chung Replybullet Posted: 10 December 2006 at 4:45pm
Really? That's interesting.
 
NTIS (the official distributor for anything related to the American government including FSI) only sells the old language courses with tapes.
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Quote Guests Replybullet Posted: 10 December 2006 at 4:57pm
Well, I ordered them directly here:
http://www.foreignserviceinstitute.com/languages/arabic/

Maybe it's not officially FSI...
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Quote Chung Replybullet Posted: 10 December 2006 at 5:03pm
That explains it.
 
As much as those guys have the right name, there's a disclaimer on their website at this link:
 
 
A bit sneaky but it's not illegal.


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Quote sharshar Replybullet Posted: 08 April 2008 at 6:20am
i belive all the course are copyright, however only for private use  and not allowed to use it as commercial as this one
 
:http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Beginners-Russian-Language-Course-MP3-Audio-Work-
or this
 
this should not happen..  and Ebay should be inform .do you agree with me ? if yes then do somthing


Edited by sharshar - 08 April 2008 at 6:25am
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