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Quote Yonatan Replybullet Topic: Twi and Other Course Request .. Also Tha
    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.
 
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Quote raincrowlee Replybullet 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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Quote Poetry Replybullet 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.

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Quote ghanachad Replybullet 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? 
 
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Quote Yonatan Replybullet 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.. 
 
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Quote emptysilo Replybullet 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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Quote Yonatan Replybullet 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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Quote emptysilo Replybullet 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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Quote Yonatan Replybullet 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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Quote Chung Replybullet 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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