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Italian audio-missing

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Category: Learning Languages
Forum Name: General Discussion
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URL: http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=522
Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 3:11am


Topic: Italian audio-missing
Posted By: NemanjaM
Subject: Italian audio-missing
Date Posted: 23 December 2007 at 5:51am
Any chance of posting audio files on Italian page?

I am learning Italian and have a cd which goes with espresso1 book. I am willing to scan and send it to you if you are willing(both the book and cd).

Interested?


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Posted By: Othelia
Date Posted: 09 July 2008 at 5:26pm
I am an absolute newbie here, and have been trying to find some audio info for Italian.  I have downloaded the FSI material, but it appears to need audio to make sense.

Is the audio something we are supposed to purchase separately? I am looking for an inexpensive program ;)

Thanks for any advice you can give me.



Posted By: Manlio
Date Posted: 26 August 2008 at 5:46pm
The Italian course that has been made available via this webpage seems extremely well-made, with a structured, progressive approach that is rarely if ever seen in contemporary books offered to the general public. That high level of organization is seen consistently in the FSI courses and I find it most inspiring.

Italian is my native language, but for various reasons I have not learned it. Presently, I want to make a serious effort to do that and I believe that the FSI material would fit the bill nicely. Thus, I really hope that the audio material will be provided as well, so that I will then be able to follow the entire course carefully, according to the printed instructions.

I express my great gratitude in advance for an upload of the Italian audio files; that would be immensely useful.

By the way - was ever a second volume of the Italian course published? If yes, will that be provided here, as well, in the future?

Best regards from Sweden.

Manlio.


Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 26 August 2008 at 11:15pm
I'm not sure if a second volume of FSI Italian was made available for public sale. A scan of NTIS' website shows only the FSI Italian FAST course.

If someone really wants to buy the audio for Italian, then the usual sources are Multilingual Books, Audio-Forum or NTIS (I also suspect that Barron's Mastering Italian is a rip-off of the original FSI course so it should have the corresponding audio to the text on this website).

Sometimes copies of original FSI courses can also be borrowed from large public libraries or university libraries. I know that Demipuppet has made the most of his access to a university library and digitalized a large portion of the material that you now see on this website.

Uploading of new material is sporadic and depends on which FSI courses people can find and when they have time to do the digitalization. Of course there's always room for more contributors/volunteers, so if any others can step up, then by all means.


Posted By: Manlio
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 12:02pm
Thank you, "Chung", for your very prompt and kind response.

After making my previous post, I saw, in the section of this webpage that has been named  "Status", that the Italian audio material has in fact already been acquired by those responsible, in various capacities, for the (most generous) services provided by this webpage.

Specifically, it says: "Italian Programmed[:] Waiting [-] Texts and tapes on hand" (with the bracketed symbols added by myself).

Thus, I assume that it is just a matter of waiting, presently, for the audio material to appear.

Given the potential impact of the FSI courses on people across the globe - due to a pedagogical excellence rarely paralleled, and their apparent state of carrying no cost - which could perhaps even have a slight effect on the advancement of democracy in some parts of the world, where adequate language training is scarce and comprehension slight of  the relatively unbiased information published by independent writers often using different languages, I would normally not have hesitated to contribute to this website in whatever way that was feasible - within the rather narrow bounds defined by my current student economy and schedule, that is - but a great barrier to "stepping up", as you call it, to provide assistance of any kind, is that this website does not offer much clarification regarding the history and copyright status of FSI publications and, further, the fact that some of those that are running the site (again, in various capacities, including being "contributors" like yourself) are doing so on an anonymous basis is not something that makes you less hesitant, in the present regard. There are many perfectly acceptable reasons for not using one's actual name overtly on the Internet in an indiscriminate manner, but I do hope that my point is still perceived as reasonable.

More information about who you all are, why you do this and what the legal status of the operation is should increase the number of external contributors (provided that there are, in fact, no legal complications). Some comments in a different thread in the forum appear to testify, indirectly, to a general effort to maintain legal prudence, but I feel that some explicit comments on the said issues are necessary.

What is "NTIS", which you also mention?

Again - thank you for your prompt response, and for contributing to a site that exposes some of the most brilliant language courses I have ever laid eyes on.

Best regards,

Manlio


Posted By: newyorkeric
Date Posted: 29 August 2008 at 12:37am
Originally posted by Manlio

After making my previous post, I saw, in the section of this webpage that has been named  "Status", that the Italian audio material has in fact already been acquired by those responsible, in various capacities, for the (most generous) services provided by this webpage.

Specifically, it says: "Italian Programmed[:] Waiting [-] Texts and tapes on hand" (with the bracketed symbols added by myself).

Thus, I assume that it is just a matter of waiting, presently, for the audio material to appear.


I wouldn't sit around waiting for it to be upoaded. The status page hasn't been updated for a very long time and the pace of material being uploaded has slowed to a crawl. Cry



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