Texan wrote:Not to be rude by any means, but I think you're painting with a tad too broad of a brush, i.e. what you said may be true from some languages but not all of them.
Quite possibly, I should have made that clearer. My thoughts are just based on the courses I've seen for Italian (modern and 80s) and French (modern and Without Toil); for Spanish I'm only familiar with the modern one and I've not seen the old one. I'm quite happy to use FSI Spanish, which is not exactly modern but the language seems current enough, while FSI French felt decidedly old-fashioned. So you're probably right about the language not changing much.