What languages are needed?
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Category: Language Courses
Forum Name: Member Contributions
Forum Discription: If you have course materials and are planning to contribute them to the website, this is the place to let everyone know.
URL: http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=572
Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 2:26am
Topic: What languages are needed?
Posted By: TSkarda
Subject: What languages are needed?
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 2:59pm
Hi all,
This is mainly for the administrators. Via some personal contacts in academia and the military I may be able to source some of the older FSI coursework. What languages are the group currently looking for?
Thanks,
Tom
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Posted By: liddytime
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 3:21pm
Check with Demi-Puppet because I believe he is working on quite a few right now. But, I do know the Bulgarian tapes are asked for quite often and the African languages are always popular requests (Yoruba, Lingala etc...)
Thanks for your help!!
BL
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Posted By: toivo
Date Posted: 30 March 2008 at 11:36am
There are missing tapes in some of the courses, eg missing units 34 and 35 in the Greek Basic Course and units 34 and 35 in the Saudi Arabic Basic Course. Could you supply them?
Thanks!
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Posted By: liddytime
Date Posted: 30 March 2008 at 11:37am
I just finished digitizing the Igbo tapes but am missing Units 4, 5 and 6. Do you have access to these?
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Posted By: bgreco
Date Posted: 31 March 2008 at 7:25pm
Finnish book would be AMAZING.
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Posted By: ddoty
Date Posted: 02 April 2008 at 3:59pm
Does anyone have the tapes for units 11-15 Vietnamese [the second course] and if so are there plans to include them in the Vietnamese section of the FSI language courses? I'm currently on unit 7 and love the quality of the work that was done on those course one tapes. Thank you VERY much for the time and effort that was put in to digitize them!
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Posted By: pebah
Date Posted: 08 April 2008 at 1:08am
I would love to see the audio from Thai volume 2!
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Posted By: Bojan
Date Posted: 15 April 2008 at 11:26am
Is there any chance that you can upload an course for Indonesian?
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Posted By: flashback
Date Posted: 27 April 2008 at 12:31pm
Posted By: liddytime
Date Posted: 28 April 2008 at 11:22am
As far as I know there is no FSI Indonesian course. If you check on ebay there is a DLI indonesian course which is 20 bucks or something. My experience with the DLI courses is that they are very comprehensive and good!
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Posted By: rongon
Date Posted: 28 April 2008 at 8:27pm
Didn't the FSI do a Kirundi lesson package? I see it for a few hundred dollars on some other sites.
If anyone has access to the Kirundi lessons that would be amazing, since I'm going to be moving to Burundi/Rwanda indefinitely in the next few weeks.
Thanks,
Ron
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Posted By: solniger
Date Posted: 02 May 2008 at 7:08am
Well, my vote is to finish posting languages that are part-way available (esp. those of us who are busy for now, but want to download something for a rainy day).
So I'd love to see the rest of the Swahili audio posted, and the second half of the Hungarian graded reader.
Thanks.
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Posted By: onebir
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 3:07am
Originally posted by liddytime
As far as I know there is no FSI Indonesian course. If you check on ebay there is a DLI indonesian course which is 20 bucks or something. My experience with the DLI courses is that they are very comprehensive and good! |
I'm sure one there was one - I saw it in mentioned in the 'other publications' list printed inside the cover of a physical copy of another FSI publication from the 70s. (The book's thousands of miles from me, but I might be able to get someone to send me a photo of the page, if anyone's interested.)
Existing is one thing, but tracking it down might be quite another...
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Posted By: oldlang2003
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 5:19pm
On the last page of the 'French Phonology' text is a listing of FSI Language Publications.
There does not appear to be a 'course' for Indonesian, but they show an 'Indonesian Newspaper Reader'.
------------- Former DLI student
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Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 6:11pm
The only FSI product I am aware of is the "Newspaper Reader" There aren't any sound recordings for this. I scanned it a while ago and considered posting it on the site. But since the material was 100% Indonesian newspaper articles, the only way it could be posted is if it met the criteria for "Fair Use". I decided I didn't want to go own that path.
Note that the US government's "ERIC" website has all of the "Indonesian Basic Course" volumes available online. These were created by the Defense Language Institute. There were at least 129 cassette tapes created for the course (not available online).
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Posted By: delectric
Date Posted: 08 June 2008 at 11:04am
I have the Indonesian DLI course. If you want to arrange it being sent to you then best to PM me on the how to learn any language website
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Posted By: onebir
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 8:07am
Here's something that suggests/proves (?) that there was an FSI Indonesian Basic Course:
http://img406.imageshack.us/my.php?image=indobasiccoursext6.jpg"> (& suggests/proves I'm not crazy - phew!)
It's the resume from a reader that accompanied the course, available in full here http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/38/cf/3e.pdf - http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/38/cf/3e.pdf (Note this link is to a 3mb PDF that may freeze your pc if you have a slow internet connection - perhaps this won't trouble people outside China.)
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Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 10:20am
The .pdf shows the title as Indonesian Basic Course with DLI as the institution that put it together.
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Posted By: onebir
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 10:40pm
Oops - got over-excited by the "Basic Course" bit & forgot to read the rest. Sorry!
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Posted By: sorcieus
Date Posted: 19 June 2008 at 9:56am
The older DLI material for Indonesian are outdated. I used to teach Indonesian using that module 4-5 years ago and had to do a lot of adjustment. I think recently - since they are upgrading all DLPT test to level 4 and 5 - they have a new set of module. I have & use material from DLI (old and new), SOLT, 200 hr fam course, among other government sources online that you can get for free (scola, lingnet - among others). I will be very happy to help if you have questions about Indonesian.
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Posted By: onebir
Date Posted: 20 June 2008 at 3:14am
sorcieus, since you have experience teaching the language, it'd be great if you could explain somewhere what materials you'd recommend to someone trying to self-study indonesian (splitting up the recommendations into levels, and indicating which materials are freely available on-line)
Probably best to do this in a new thread tho! :)
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Posted By: can000
Date Posted: 19 September 2008 at 12:43am
Originally posted by toivo
There are missing tapes in some of the courses, eg missing units 34 and 35 in the Greek Basic Course and units 34 and 35 in the Saudi Arabic Basic Course. Could you supply them?
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I will second that.
Greek tapes are incomplete. Please share them if you have them.
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Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 05 November 2008 at 9:21pm
Most of the FSI text materials are now available at ERIC. See the bottom of this post:
http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=692 - http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=692
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Posted By: tamburlaine
Date Posted: 06 November 2008 at 1:29pm
Firstly, thank you to everyone for making these wonderful resources available!
DemiPuppet, could an alternative dowload be provided for the Metropolitan French Audio zip file? I can't get it--once the countdown is finished and I click the button, nothing happens. I have tried in three browsers and two different operating systems, but still no luck.
Thanks
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Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 06 November 2008 at 7:46pm
Posted By: ThaGreatGonzo
Date Posted: 19 November 2008 at 11:27am
If anyone knows how I can get Lingala, I was would grateful. I've been studying the book without the audio, but I can't master it without the tapes. Thanks.
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Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 19 November 2008 at 7:49pm
The only place I know is at the Indiana University Language Lab. It appears to be a reel-to-reel tape. Looks like they would let you make a copy.
http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/audio/africantapes.html#lingala - http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/audio/africantapes.html#lingala
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Posted By: ThaGreatGonzo
Date Posted: 29 November 2008 at 3:40pm
Thanks for the suggestion. Small chance I'll ever be in the area though.
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Posted By: wickham
Date Posted: 27 December 2008 at 7:45pm
Thought I'd mention that ERIC has made pdfs available for many of the Spoken Language Series manuals: Spoken Turkish, Book One and Book Two
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_Operator_2=and&searchtype=advanced&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=ti&ERICExtSearch_Operator_1=and&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_1=kw&eric_displayStartCount=1&ERICExtSearch_PubDate_To=2009&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=spoken&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_2=kw&ERICExtSearch_SearchCount=2&ERICExtSearch_PubDate_From=0&ERICExtSearch_FullText=true&pageSize=50&eric_displayNtriever=false&eric_sortField=dti&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b8002bcba&accno=ED113923&_nfls=false -
- Spoken Thai, Books One and Two Spoken Serbo-Croatian, Book One and Book Two Spoken Russian, Book One and Book Two Spoken Malay, Book One and Book Two Spoken Korean, Book One Spoken Japanese, Book One Spoken Iraqi Arabic, Book One Spoken Hungarian, Books One and Two Spoken Hindustani, Book One Spoken Greek, Book One and Book Two Spoken German Spoken Finnish, Books One and Two Spoken East Armenian Spoken Dutch Spoken Danish, Book One and Book Two Spoken Chinese, Books One and Two Spoken Burmese, Book One and Book Two
They have also put up a number of older DLI courses recently, e.g., Burmese Basic and Korean Basic.
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Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 27 December 2008 at 8:24pm
I did a quick check of the copyright renewal records. It appears that most if not all of the "Spoken" texts listed are still under copyright. The ERIC people must be aware of that, but one may want to download the texts sooner rather than later...
The renewal records can be looked up here:
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/%7Elesk/copyrenew.html - Rutgers Copyright Renewal Lookup site
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Posted By: liddytime
Date Posted: 30 December 2008 at 7:44am
The ERIC site also seems to have many more DLI courses for download! I found Turkish Czech Polish Korean and quite a few more!
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Posted By: oldlang2003
Date Posted: 30 December 2008 at 9:54am
That's great! Thanks for the heads-up.
I studied Czech at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey back in the early '70s, and it was a real trip down memory lane to see the old material. Hard to believe, but I still remembered some of the dialogues and situations that we drilled on back then.
------------- Former DLI student
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Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 30 December 2008 at 4:35pm
ERIC seems to have been accelerating the uploading of texts for those old courses. I'm especially amazed at the quantity of DLI stuff that ERIC is hosting for free download so far. Not to mention that ERIC also has some missing pieces of FSI stuff that have not been received or uploaded by gdfellows. (e.g. graded reader texts for Finnish, Hungarian and Turkish. By the way, the Turkish Graded Reader is the supposedly elusive third part of the FSI Turkish Basic Course)
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Posted By: mmlife
Date Posted: 03 January 2009 at 3:04am
Vietnamese 2nd course please please!
Michael
------------- Kind Regards
Michael
www.redbicycletouringcompany.com
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Posted By: Zonker
Date Posted: 03 January 2009 at 5:07am
Originally posted by mmlife
Vietnamese 2nd course please please!
Michael |
You'll find that Demipuppet has put the audio and text for Vietnamese Vol 2 on a file-sharing site: follow the link in the forum topic at http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=661 - http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=661
or check the new alternate site at http://www.fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Vietnamese - http://www.fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Vietnamese
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