Glen,
Just as one suggestion (take it with a grain of salt as you receive many mutually exclusive requests), I would recommend adding Programmatic Spanish Volume 2 before continuing with Basic Spanish.
Programmatic Spanish is a great course. It does not take one as far as Basic Spanish, but it definitely goes farther than Barron's 1 & 2 with grammar (heavy drilling in subjunctive and conditional phrases).
I believe it provides a more thorough grounding in the "introduction" to Spanish, with heavy drilling in pronunciation that really helps to lose the gringo accent (it is a Spanish phonetics course combined with grammar). FSI claims it goes beyond the grammar taught in most 1st year college Spanish classes.
The words are spoken more slowly, and I have found the combination with pronunciation exercises has made it easier for me to learn to trill my r's and work on consonent clusters, whereas I have had problems moving at the spoken speed of Basic Spanish without developing a slower but still somewhat natural speed that emphasizes better pronunciation.
The weakness of course is that Programmatic Spanish does not cover all the grammar taught in Basic Spanish 1 - 4, and teaches only 1400 words (heavy emphasis over syntax/grammar rather than vocabulary acquisition). But that is the perfect reason to complete Programmatic Spanish and then have an easy move to Basic Spanish, tear through the grammar going through Basic Spanish 1, 2, and parts of 3 (in terms of grammar) with rapid vocabulary acquisition (Basic Spanish being more vocabulary intensive). And then of course Basic Spanish would take one farther ultimately in points of grammar by Level 4.
I think someone who has already taken a substantial amount of Spanish would want to simply go with Basic Levels 1-4, but proceeding with Programmatic Spanish 1 & 2 then moving on to Basic Spanish (rushing through it until encountering new grammar somewhere in Level 3) is an excellent way to get a thorough grounding in grammar.
Finally, Programmatic Spanish is not as easily available. With the first half of FSI Basic Spanish available at most libraries (Barrons 1 & 2), the crunch is not felt until level three. Plus, with Platiquemos and Learning Spanish Like Crazy, one can purchase Basic Spanish 3 & 4 at a comparitively reasonable price.
All of this is just a plug for the sequencing of posting files, not whether Basic Spanish (an excellent, more thorough course by Level 4) should be made available.
I suspect one who started with Programmatic Spanish 1 & 2 and then moved to Basic Spanish 1 - 4 could potentially finish sooner than a novice who started only with Basic 1 and tried to move through to Basic 4 (many conceptual barriers barring progress with more truncated grammar explanations and fast speech to the point of sloppiness before a proper foundation in accurate pronunciation).
To summarize, as a language student I'd pick Basic over Programmatic Spanish if I were forced to make a choice in the "only" course to complete, but I'd choose completing Programmatic Spanish 1 & 2 first before completing Basic 1 - 4 (at an accelerated pace with a thorough PS grammatical foundation). Therefore, my suggestion would be to post PS Vol. 2 first before moving on to Basic 1 - 30.
Again, take it with a grain of salt as you prioritize competing demands. Regardless of the course sequencing order, Your web page is bringing encouragement to a number of language students who could never afford a fraction of the material being posted.
--John
P.S. to anyone browsing the PS material, don't get discusted with the initial pronunciation exercises. You will hear a voice bleating "PaPA, PaPA" "PApa, PApa", etc. in the first chapter or two. The pronunciation exercises are good but can be skipped, and by Level 10 you can say a surprising number of things.
By about unit 15 I was able to hire a nanny for my children who speaks no English, using a small vocabulary but a more functional chunk of grammar than I would have had under my command for Basic Spanish unit 15.
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