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Category: Learning Languages
Forum Name: German
Forum Discription: Discussion about studying German using the FSI course.
URL: http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=309
Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 2:44am


Topic: Status quo
Posted By: Lamp
Subject: Status quo
Date Posted: 10 February 2007 at 1:57pm
Hi folks,

I have decided to study german, and, guess what, to my luck, I found this site Big%20smile.

I have however a question, which came into me when I checked the status, where reads "Need better audio for volume I": Is this impeditive in anyway? or is it just some annoying noises here and there?

I thank ye in advance.
Lamp




Replies:
Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 10 February 2007 at 6:11pm
The audio for volume 1 is of poor quality because the master tapes from NTIS (government distributor) were pretty poor to begin with. Certain sections in Vol. 1 sound unclear or muffled and that can interfere with your studying.
 
Sir Nigel and gdfellows tried hard to get around these problems by adjusting the settings on the recording software, but it didn't work out, so what you get here is straight from NTIS, warts and all.
 
Apparently Barron's "Mastering German" (a rip-off of the original FSI materials) has much clearer audio, but alas Barron's stuff is under copyright protection and ineligible for posting here.


Posted By: andy_cog
Date Posted: 07 June 2007 at 7:30pm
I am currently in the process of cleaning the noise out of the recording of Vol.  1.  It will be encoded in VBR wma.  I am willing to send it in; would this be helpful?


Posted By: seyal
Date Posted: 10 June 2008 at 6:59pm
I'm not the topic creator, but I think it would be helpful for me. :)





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