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Quote rongon Replybullet Posted: 28 April 2008 at 8:27pm
Didn't the FSI do a Kirundi lesson package?  I see it for a few hundred dollars on some other sites.

If anyone has access to the Kirundi lessons that would be amazing, since I'm going to be moving to Burundi/Rwanda indefinitely in the next few weeks.

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Quote solniger Replybullet Posted: 02 May 2008 at 7:08am
Well, my vote is to finish posting languages that are part-way available (esp. those of us who are busy for now, but want to download something for a rainy day).
 
So I'd love to see the rest of the Swahili audio posted, and the second half of the Hungarian graded reader.
 
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Quote onebir Replybullet Posted: 05 June 2008 at 3:07am
Originally posted by liddytime

As  far as I know there is no FSI Indonesian course.  If you check on ebay there is a DLI indonesian course which is 20 bucks or something.  My experience with the DLI courses is that they are very comprehensive and good!


I'm sure one there was one - I saw it in mentioned in the 'other publications' list printed inside the cover of a physical copy of another FSI publication from the 70s.  (The book's thousands of miles from me, but I might be able to get someone to send me a photo of the page, if anyone's interested.)

Existing is one thing, but tracking it down might be quite another...
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Quote oldlang2003 Replybullet Posted: 05 June 2008 at 5:19pm
On the last page of the 'French Phonology' text is a listing of FSI Language Publications.
 
There does not appear to be a 'course' for Indonesian, but they show an 'Indonesian Newspaper Reader'.
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Quote DemiPuppet Replybullet Posted: 05 June 2008 at 6:11pm
The only FSI product I am aware of is the "Newspaper Reader" There aren't any sound recordings for this. I scanned it a while ago and considered posting it on the site. But since the material was 100% Indonesian newspaper articles, the only way it could be posted is if it met the criteria for "Fair Use".  I decided I didn't want to go own that path.

Note that the US government's "ERIC" website has all of the "Indonesian Basic Course" volumes available online.  These were created by the Defense Language Institute.  There were at least 129 cassette tapes created for the course (not available online).
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Quote delectric Replybullet Posted: 08 June 2008 at 11:04am
I have the Indonesian DLI course. If you want to arrange it being sent to you then best to PM me on the how to learn any language website
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Quote onebir Replybullet Posted: 14 June 2008 at 8:07am
Here's something that suggests/proves (?) that there was an FSI Indonesian Basic Course:


(& suggests/proves I'm not crazy - phew!)

It's the resume from a reader that accompanied the course, available in full here http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/38/cf/3e.pdf
(Note this link is to a 3mb PDF that may freeze your pc if you have a slow internet connection - perhaps this won't trouble people outside China.)
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Quote Chung Replybullet Posted: 14 June 2008 at 10:20am
The .pdf shows the title as Indonesian Basic Course with DLI as the institution that put it together.
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Quote onebir Replybullet Posted: 14 June 2008 at 10:40pm
Oops - got over-excited by the "Basic Course" bit & forgot to read the rest.  Sorry!
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Quote sorcieus Replybullet Posted: 19 June 2008 at 9:56am
The older DLI material for Indonesian are outdated. I used to teach Indonesian using that module 4-5 years ago and had to do a lot of adjustment. I think recently - since they are upgrading all DLPT test to level 4 and 5 - they have a new set of module. I have & use material from DLI (old and new), SOLT, 200 hr fam course, among other government sources online that you can get for free (scola, lingnet - among others).
I will be very happy to help if you have questions about Indonesian.
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