FSI Italian - FAST, Headstart or Programmatic

[Chung]

Sure, Italian has fewer high quality free resources and fewer English based resources than the FIGS. No wonder.

The "I" in FIGS does not stand for Icelandic.

Yeah, I meant to write "the rest of the FIGS", sorry

But wouldn't it be fun, if it stood for Icelandic? Or Inuktikut!

And here I was thinking all along that the "I" stood for Inari Saami...

[Neurotip]

Sure, Italian has fewer high quality free resources and fewer English based resources than the FIGS. No wonder.

The "I" in FIGS does not stand for Icelandic.

Yeah, I meant to write "the rest of the FIGS", sorry

But wouldn't it be fun, if it stood for Icelandic? Or Inuktikut!

And here I was thinking all along that the "I" stood for Inari Saami...

Eet eez for Inglish no?

[lavengro]

Grazie a tutti! Much appreciated, and super helpful!

Cavesa, if it were convenient for you to dig up the names of material you particularly liked, that would be awesome, but only if not too much trouble. Reineke, the site you reference looks really good for material which I find is particularly useful for me (straightforward, level-appropriate text with clear, slow audio), thanks.

I have decided to take a quick run through the DLI Headstart material, as tourist-oriented material is what I desperately need in the super near future (pending vacation in Italy for the first time), and then will buckle down to a more systematic approach on my return (if I safely survive the driving there in our rental car - colleagues here are betting on either side of that occurring).

Grazie ancora!

[Speakeasy]

Copied from the “Has anyone completed FSI?” discussion thread:

… 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.

Lysander, my comments on DLI/FSI Italian are located on page 1 of this thread.

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