Postby Xmmm » Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:24 pm
I downloaded the DLI course that Daristani provided links for and did the first three lessons:
The Good
1. audio is pretty good. Still some crackle and hiss but much better than FSI Spanish or Modern Russian.
2. the course looks like your typical comprehensive FSI/DLI course. I would guess total vocabulary is at least 2500 words if not more. On lesson 3 I was doing "This is a wall lamp", "this is a table lamp", "that is a rifle", "that is a cannon" and "no, I'm not a student, I'm a professor."
The Bad
1. The reason why there are 29 hours of audio instead of 59 is because apparently they didn't record any of the pattern drills. Dialogues yes, repetition drills, yes, vocabulary, yes ... pattern drills, no. They kind of sketch out what the pattern drills are in the notes, and then just put "continue on with the other lesson vocabulary!". But for self study, I'm not sure if there is any value to making up my own pattern drills with no audio feedback or answer key.
2. Maybe the Indonesian language has changed a bit over the last 45 years? I see they are using "saudara" a lot and recommend it for foreigners to use, but in GLOSS, learningindonesian, and all the movies I only hear "anda" and "kamu". So far I don't think this is a major problem ...
The Conclusion
Even with caveats, this still looks pretty good. You can't do "drill and kill" with it, but it's more comprehensive than learningindonesian.com and more organized than GLOSS.
edit: fix typo
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Xmmm on Thu Nov 16, 2017 7:54 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Ещё раз сунешь голову туда — окажешься внутри. Поняла, Фемида? -- аигел