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junkyak
Newbie ![]() Joined: 22 July 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2 |
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From my understanding, the basic has 4 volumes and right now there is audio for vol 1, and text for vol 2. Is the entire thing gonna go up and if so, any idea when?
I also have a couple of questions. Since platiquemos is pretty much based on the basic 1-4, is it worth to take that one in addition to this one? My second question is regarding Learn Spanish Like Crazy http://www.learningspanishlikecrazy.com/offer1b.html?split_id=3 Does anyone know anything about this program? |
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manny
Newbie ![]() Joined: 15 July 2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 7 |
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Not sure how you would use the FSI Spanish, but it is online at http://www.loquella.com/learn-spanish/ I have done begin-interm-advance with other materials and I am now using the above to review. The FSI stuff is a little dated, can be boring, but is very thorough. It is excellent. Manny P.S. I am not affiliated with the above web site and I hope they add other languages in the future. |
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El Santo
Newbie ![]() Joined: 19 March 2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
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I am also eager to see the Spanish Basic courses posted. I sent a PM to Sir Nigel but have not received any response. It is good that Loquella has the audio online, but it would sure be to nice to have the text and a more complete form of the audio.
Does anyone know if the progress is being made?
This website is amazing! Thanks to everyone who has contributed.
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mouse
Newbie ![]() Joined: 21 October 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 17 |
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The entire course has over 2000 pages of text and 80 hours of audio (I don't have the actual course, so these numbers need confirmation), so digitalizing and posting it would take probably a year of hard work.
It is quite strange, though, that the Spanish course hasn't been updated for months.
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redhounds
Newbie ![]() Joined: 12 August 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1 |
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Does anyone know how far Loquella goes? Looking at it it seems to be at least FSI Basic I & II--does it go all the way to IV?
Regarding the Learning Spanish Like Crazy series--if you like Pimsleur it is pretty good. It attempts to rectify some of the problems with Pimsleur, and it does a good job of introducing many phrases in an everyday non-formal type of speech. It uses native speakers from different Spanish speaking countries, so you get exposed to a few different ways to pronounce things ("yo" & "jo", "eya" & "eja" etc). It is a nice introduction or addition to your learning material, but it is not as much of a stand alone course as the FSI Basic series. I believe that one will gain a higher level of proficiency with the FSI course carried to completion than the LSLC series, but the LSLC only has the 2 levels so far and I would guess that over the next few years we will see a level 3 & possibly 4 come out. Platiquemos is great--it should be, it's based on the FSI courses that most of us are here for in the first place. It eliminates the stupid phonetic spelling in the printed material and it is updated just enough to take away some of the "stink" of the original material (ie -- "fat girls with glasses"). If you already are using the FSI course for free, I personally don't feel that the Platiquemos series is worth the extra expense. If you had to choose between buying FSI basic or Platiquemos and the cost was the same, Platiquemos comes out on top for me. |
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daristani
Contributor ![]() Joined: 04 March 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 104 |
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I'm pretty sure that what's on the Loquella site is the entire FSI Basic Spanish course, through volume IV. I'm a bit uncertain as to the final few lessons, which in Loquella are apparently devoted to samples of different Spanish dialects. I don't know whether those are from the original FSI course, or whether they're something created by Loquella. But other than that final handful of lessons, I think the rest of the Loquella course is identical to the original FSI Spanish course.
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junkyak
Newbie ![]() Joined: 22 July 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2 |
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Well ive been doing the loquella and so far its pretty good, though I wish it translated a little bit more. Ive heard that the LSLC Spoken Spanish is basically the FSI courses remastered with better sound quality. Im just gonna continue with the loquella, and then do the programmatic vol. 1 and 2.
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emptysilo
Newbie ![]() Joined: 31 October 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 30 |
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LSLC comes with Spoken Spanish and Programmatic Spanish v. 1 - 4. The Spoken Spanish is very similar to Pimsleur. The former uses the informal you while the later sticks with the formal use. I think the LSLC material goes to fast personally. I prefer Pimsleur.
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Jared
Newbie ![]() Joined: 20 October 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1 |
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Curious if we could get an update on the Spanish Basic Courses? From searches of the board I think the last status report was towards the beginning of the year. If it's going to be another year, fine - just curious when we should check back. Thanks for your hard work guys.
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