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CantoKid
Newbie ![]() Joined: 28 March 2006 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 6 |
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Was there ever an FSI course for Japanese?
Edited by CantoKid - 01 August 2006 at 3:48am |
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DemiPuppet
Administrator ![]() Joined: 27 May 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 163 |
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As far as I can tell, there never was a Japanese Basic Course. It looks like the FSI just used Eleanor Harz Jorden's "Beginning Japanese" book. I'm not sure, but the FSI may have produced the audio tapes.
I was browsing through my university library and noticed that the FSI did produce a "Japanese FAST" book. But like all the FSI FAST books, it did not look very comprehensive. |
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RavinDave
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Chung
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Are these originals directly from FSI? Or are they from Multilingua Inc.?
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onebir
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I'm confused about this too. It thought that NTIS only sold US government produced materials. But here's a chunk of its mission statement: "NTIS' Responsibilities
The second bullet seems to mandate them to sell copyright materials too. On the other hand there are 'true' copyright materials based on FSI stuff (usually modified by the course developers at a later date) and Jorden did work for the FSI 'for many years', according to her Wikipedia entry: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Jorden) So maybe the 'Beginning Japanese' sold by NTIS (link below) is a government-funded, public domain version of the Eleanor Hartz Jordan, which she later modified into the Yale version... (http://www.ntis.gov/search/results.asp?loc=3-0-0&strSearch=ntisavlanguagejapanese&formShow=no) Perhaps the NTIS could answer the question? EDIT: I think the existence of a Barron's Mastering Japanese, crediting the FSI + the same authors (Eleanor Harz Jorden, and Hamako Ito Chaplin) supports the theory that the NTIS beginning Japanese is public domain... http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Japanese-Foreign-Language-Institute/dp/0812078659/sr=1-11/qid=1168283230/ref=sr_1_11/102-4853311-8496108?ie=UTF8&s=books Edited by onebir - 08 January 2007 at 1:16pm |
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CantoKid
Newbie ![]() Joined: 28 March 2006 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 6 |
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Very interesting, it looks like we may have to try and get a hold of this course as well! Cool!
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CharlieBrown
Newbie ![]() Joined: 05 February 2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 1 |
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I would love to have a Japanese section!
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emptysilo
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Actually, the book that comes with the Barron's course is the exact same book (1963 copyright) that is published by Yale University Press (I bought both without knowing it at the time). If you order the Beginning Japanese tapes, the same several (8 tapes come with part 1) of the first ones are the same. So, I don't think it is in the public domain. But I don't know.
This is the first of three parts by the way. Part 1 then Part 2 then Reading Japanese. You can order all the tapes (217$ for Beginning-15+16 tapes, 117$ for Reading) through Cornell now, instead of whatever company is mentioned in the book. I am guessing there are 15 tapes for Part 1 covers the same for Barron's so it is cheaper to get the tapes from Barron's since Cornell's price for just the tapes for Part 1 is 105$ (Part 2 = 112$). I don't know if there is a cheaper price to get it from then perhaps a friend. Hopes this helps, ES. |
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beanie
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I believe "Reading Japanese" from 1976 by Eleanor Harz Jorden has a notice in it that released it to the public domain in 1991.
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overrated
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Can anyone do anything about this?
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