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Any idea when the entire fsi basic will be up?

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Forum Name: Spanish
Forum Discription: Discussion about studying Spanish using the FSI course.
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Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 3:36am


Topic: Any idea when the entire fsi basic will be up?
Posted By: junkyak
Subject: Any idea when the entire fsi basic will be up?
Date Posted: 22 July 2007 at 9:06am
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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Posted By: manny
Date Posted: 23 July 2007 at 3:57pm

 

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.



Posted By: El Santo
Date Posted: 24 July 2007 at 4:00pm
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.


Posted By: mouse
Date Posted: 29 July 2007 at 5:52pm
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.


Posted By: redhounds
Date Posted: 12 August 2007 at 11:40pm
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.


Posted By: daristani
Date Posted: 13 August 2007 at 7:45am
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.


Posted By: junkyak
Date Posted: 06 September 2007 at 7:43am
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.


Posted By: emptysilo
Date Posted: 06 September 2007 at 7:27pm
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.


Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: 20 October 2007 at 2:37am
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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