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667medic
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Hi guys,
I was just wondering how long would it take to finish the FSI course assuming that I spend around 1 hour every day. I am at the beginner level as I have already completed Pimsleur 1 and 2.
Can anybody who has completed the course relate their experience and what regimen they had followed for the material....
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Thomas
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I started in August of last year, so I've been working on it for about 5 months. I just finished Module 4 so I've gone through around 120 lesson segments (tapes as they're described in the recordings). That comes to about a tape every 1.25 days I guess. At that pace, given the number of tapes left I would finish in 7-8 months, or 12-13 months total for the entire course. I probably spend 2-3 hours a day, 7 days a week. It sounds like a lot but for many of us in Silicon Valley in California, that's the round trip commute time to work plus maybe 30-60 minutes at home. I have all the lessons loaded into my ipod so it's easy to listen whenever I have free time.
Lately I've also been transcribing some of the target and reference lists so I can load them into flashcard programs and cut and paste the content into other things. I wonder if there are others out there who'd like to use the same format to do their own transcribing. That way we could share the load. Here's what one of them looks like. Note I added Chinese characters which the FSI texts don't have so they'd need to be proof-read by someone else to correct any mistakes I might have made.
Cheers, Tom
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Tom
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lucvileyn
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I’ve been working on Pimsleur mandarin I, II, III and I master them really very well. If you have done Pimsleur, you shouldn’t have much trouble to study Modules 1, 2, 3 and 4, but certainly do the drills and the reference notes, which are the most interesting stuff. Of the rest, I prefer the optional modules personal welfare and restaurant. I also take evening courses, in a small group (6 persons) and we do a lot of talking and the teacher does correct our pronunciation.
I’m also looking, as an exercise, and to help other people, to transcribe completely the Pimsleur course in simplified Chinese. I looked up all the vocabulary of the third volume. Also, at the evening course, I create a list sorted by radical, helpful for remembering and understanding Chinese characters. However, you will need a lot a time to study the FSI course. It is almost ideal to do the Pimsleur course before starting. |
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onebir
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There's some Pimsleur transcripts here:
http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?t=11204 (only vol 1, but maybe she's done some more since then) & another one here: http://ezmandarin.com/ (I think you have to register to download it) |
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rathpy
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Like Thomas, I have transcribed a couple of lessons.
eg. RES: CE1 - Classroom Expressions 1
I use a spreadsheet format, which is fine for viewing, editing and printing. I think someone could then load into a database and produce an Acrobat document or a set of web pages, or whatever. It is a bit slow for me to create these though. With person's names I have to guess what appropriate characters might be. Perhaps if the Vocuabulary sections were already transcribed into characters I could recreate the dialogues more easily. The tapes are there for the aural side. If Chinese characters existed, then that would great for leaning to read. One could practise with the tapes then them. Edited by rathpy - 09 January 2007 at 3:22pm |
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667medic
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Thanks for all the replies guys. Even though I have been through Pimsleur, I think I had better start from the scratch for FSI for the sake of completion. I would probably have to wait for 6 months before I can start with FSI as I would graduate from my studies only in July...
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