Missing CD
Printed From: FSI Language Courses
Category: Community
Forum Name: Problem Reports
Forum Discription: Report problems with language courses or web links.
URL: http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=549
Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 2:51am
Topic: Missing CD
Posted By: Rowan Berkeley
Subject: Missing CD
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 9:26am
Hi - I just received the Hebrew Basic package, and I seem to be missing the final CD, which would be "CD26 : Tracks 39 & 40". I got the MP3 versions from the website, but I would like the CD too, if possible. I shall send you my postal address by private message if you like. I posted this on the 'hebrew' thread before spotting the 'problems' one, sorry.
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Posted By: daristani
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 1:46pm
If you got the Hebrew course on CD, you didn't get it from this site; this site does not sell anything, but merely puts the materials, which are in the public domain, on line for download.
If you're looking for an additional CD to the set you presumably bought elsewhere, I suggest you double-check the address of the seller and deal with them directly. This site has no connection either with the Foreign Service Institute itself or with those companies that repackage the FSI materials for commercial sale.
In any event, good luck with your studies.
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Posted By: Rowan Berkeley
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 2:08pm
There is no info on the package, even though it came from Amazon, and so is presumably legit. I cannot believe no-one here knows the distributor! Incidentally, the CDs are copyright, whether the material on them is in the public domain or not. I have e-mailed State, but that is like throwing a message in a bottle into the Atlantic. And of course I have emailed Amazon, since they must know who they get them from.
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Posted By: daristani
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 5:56pm
Sorry, but there are lots of distributors for these courses; various companies have been selling them for years under various names, with AudioForum being the most well-known. More recently, since this site has made them available for free, even more sharp-eyed "entrepreneurs" have popped up selling book and CD versions. One, foreignserviceinstitute.com, seems to have copied at least some material directly from this site, based on the Swedish book available there, and if you look on E-Bay, you can see that a fair number of sellers are selling CDs with audio and PDF files of the FSI courses available here.
But as noted above, this site has no connection with the US State Department or the Foreign Service Institute. Created and supplied wholly by volunteers, it has no commercial connections, either. The Foreign Service Institute does not sell these courses directly. The official US government distributor for the courses is the National Technical Information Service (http://www.ntis.gov/products/catalogs.asp?loc=4-6-0#language), but their prices are quite high, and they will likely have little interest in replacing a missing CD sold by someone else. Accordingly, if you bought the set from Amazon, I'd suggest you either seek the missing CD from them or, alternatively, simply return the set you bought as incomplete and make the best of the free materials available here.
Sorry not to be able to give you any satisfaction, but given the nature of the site, there are simply no CDs to send out.
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