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Quote !LH@N Replybullet Topic: Instructor's Manuals
    Posted: 27 March 2008 at 7:18am
Hi everybody!
I couldn't find the instructor's manuals on the website, I was wondering if anybody knew where to get them.

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Quote abhaz Replybullet Posted: 01 May 2008 at 6:53am
It is rather interesting that the instructor's manuals are nowhere to be found and that even though this post has 213 reads so far, there is not a single explanatory word to ilhan's request from the moderators. Thanks anyway.

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Quote daristani Replybullet Posted: 01 May 2008 at 7:09am
This site is run entirely by volunteers who devote their own time, efforts, and resources to make materials available others for free.  No one is obliged to respond to any particular post or question, and it should not be assumed that anyone connected to the site has any materials that have not already been posted. 

It should likewise not be assumed that there exist instructor's manuals for every course that was produced by FSI. 

If no one responded to the question above, it is likely that no one has, or perhaps is even aware of, an instructor's manual for the French course.
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Quote abhaz Replybullet Posted: 02 May 2008 at 8:03am
@daristani, thank you for your explanation. We appreciate all the efforts and time of volunteers. Does any one know if the French Instructor's Manuals are on sale somewhere ? I would like to purchase them and scan and put them on this site. Regards.
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Quote DemiPuppet Replybullet Posted: 02 May 2008 at 8:23am
I'm not aware of the existence of any French Instructor's Manuals.  Do you have an exact title or author's name?
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Quote abhaz Replybullet Posted: 02 May 2008 at 4:14pm
@ DemiPuppet : Thank you for your interest. Unfortunately no, I do not. But, common sense tells me that there should be manuals for teachers containing the answers to the not recorded written exercises in the textbooks. 
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Quote daristani Replybullet Posted: 02 May 2008 at 5:14pm
My copy of the Basic French book makes no mention of an instructor's manual.  It is of course possible that one was produced, but if so, it may never have been sold to the public, and was probably utilized by FSI's instructors -- who were native speakers and presumably didn't need to have a book with the correct answers. So if one was produced, finding a copy will likely be exceedingly difficult.

But it's just as likely there was no instructor's manual.  If you should ever find one, it would be a welcome addition to the site, but in the absence of positive evidence, I suspect that there may never have been one. 

Remember that the materials were NOT produced to be used as stand-alone instructional materials, but rather as materials to complement intensive in-class instruction by native speaking instructors in small groups.  People err in thinking that the books/tapes were ever intended to be the entirety of the FSI instructional process -- an error that has been compounded by the various commercial resellers who suggest that you can become fluent merely by going through the tapes. They're marvelous for individual practice, but the whole FSI approach was always based on intensive classroom work, in addition to the tapes.    
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