Has anyone completed FSI?

[cjareck]

I still struggle with the FSI Basic Hebrew course, but I hope to finish it and then probably I will get the next one. So I checked only one box - "I might use FSI again".
I do not care much about the outdated language since I need Hebrew to read sources (or hear them since partially they are recorded communications) that are about from the course's period. I think that native speakers will understand me and I will also understand them - at least the older ones. I do not need to immerse into the nowadays slang or youth language.

[lavengro]

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Is completing FSI phonology a course, or are we only talking about the larger/main courses for a language?

I decide to interpret reineke's "Yes, I have completed the course" as meaning any FSI course, and I voted yes for FSI French Phonology.

changed my vote as a result of reineke's subsequent clarification.

[reineke]

I feel like I should have been sending love letters all this time....

Is completing FSI phonology a course, or are we only talking about the larger/main courses for a language?

Also I refuse to vote #3/might when it is: #3/will/currently/even if it takes 3 more years.

The main course. The basic course everyone is talking about that's available for many languages. If the course feels like it's going to take you 2-3 years vote 2. and 4.

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[Ani]

If the course feels like it's going to take you 2-3 years vote 2. and 4.

Nah.. I'll maintain my position with zenmonkey..

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[zenmonkey]

Couldn't help myself.

Chaca Chaca Chaca chow!

[reineke]

Year after year
On the monkey's face
A monkey's mask.

Basho

[Brun Ugle]

Blind as an owl might work too but I'm all about being endearing. Keep it coming. All 50 of you.

reinekeee...
First of all: Puten!
(Just that old inside joke between the fox and me. "Puten" is a German word meaning turkey hens.)

Second... I do realize that in your list of languages, you stated being a native speaker of Fox. However, I am not. Neither are most of the other users. You already made so many posts that haven't got the slightest riddle-ish character. On the contrary. They are very legible. So why didn't you stick to the same method in this case, too? I haven't got the slightest clue on what you are talking about right now. #NoOffense

I had assumed he was making fun of my love of FSI, but I don’t speak Fox either and find many of Reineke’s posts too enigmatic and beyond my comprehension.

[zenmonkey]

Year after year
On the monkey's face
A monkey's mask.

Basho

Kitsune!

Dumped out orange peels,
float on the river,
saw the apple eater.

- zm
(my intro to Basho was Salinger)

[Lysander]

FSI is great!
FSI is the most fun you can have on a Saturday night.
I’m considering choosing my future target languages based on which ones have the best, most complete FSI courses available.

For some reason, none of the above were included as poll options.

Seems like a good time for a "definitive ranking of all FSI courses ever" thread, haha.

It seems from Speakeasy that we can go ahead and slot in Italian at the very bottom.

[Speakeasy]

… Seems like a good time for a "definitive ranking of all FSI courses ever" thread, haha. It seems from Speakeasy that we can go ahead and slot in Italian at the very bottom.

No, that is not quite what I said. There are two legacy FSI Italian courses for which the texts and audio recordings are available. Whereas “FSI Programmed Italian” is amongst the very worst courses that I have ever encountered, the “FSI Italian FAST” is an excellent, comprehensive course which greatly surpasses the scope of the others in the FAST series. Regrettably, when people speak of “FSI Italian”, the reputation of the latter is unjustifiably tarnished by the deservedly bad reputation of the former.

Rather than continue the discussion of FSI Italian in this thread, so that you might have a better idea of the DLI/FSI Italian courses and add your own comments if you so wish, I will reopen the discussion thread “FSI Italian - FAST, Headstart or Programmatic” of May, 2018, which you will find in the Practical Questions and Advice sub-forum.