I have never come across any indication of the existence of the FSI German Basic course (circa 1965) beyond the original two volumes (Lessons 1 through 24) with which many of us are familiar. For example, during a period which extended over several years, the U.S. Government’s N.T.I.S. (National Technical Information Service) used to sell copies of the FSI language courses and they always listed just the two volumes. Moreover, the independent publishers Multilingual, Barron’s Educational, and Audio Forum (see separate comment below), along with a number of smaller resellers, all published volumes which contained only lessons 1 through 24. If there ever existed truly “advanced” versions of the FSI German course, containing materials beyond those of the original 24 lessons, then they are the new Holy Grail.
As part of my preparations to my reply to David1917’s question, I scanned the three sets of physical copies of the course manuals that I have in my collection (yes, I know, I’m not your garden-variety nerd).
Original FSI German Basic course (volumes 1 and 2)
U.S. Government Printing Office1 FSI German Basic (U.S. Government Printing Office).JPG
Reprinted/renamed FSI German Basic course (volumes 1 and 2)
Barron’s Mastering German2 FSI German Basic (Barron's Educational).JPG
Reprinted FSI German Basic course (volumes 1, 2, 3) (sic*)
Audio-ForumThis publisher chose to split the original Volume 1 into two parts each of which contained six lessons only and, in publishing their edition of the original Volume 2, they labelled it Volume 3*.
3 FSI German Basic (Audio-Forum).JPG
David1917 wrote: … I have searched ERIC, WorldCat, ebay, Amazon, etc. and only found one suspect that might be FSI German Volume 3 on a CD-ROM …
I wonder if the “Volume 3” is a copy of the “third” volume by Audio-Forum? Would you happen to have a LINK to this offer that you would share with us? Thank you.
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