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Yonatan
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Joined: 10 March 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 7 |
![]() Posted: 23 April 2007 at 11:05pm |
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oops.. think my post got deleted, or sorry if it shows twice, as i said was looking for Amharic course now, not Twi course.. Thanks for the link though. |
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Chung
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Joined: 23 May 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 143 |
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Spoken Language Services sells the FSI Amharic course as part of its offerings. $45 for each volume. (Vol. 1 has units 1-50; Vol. 2 has units 51-60 but apparently both volumes have 550 pages)
I don't think that you can do better than that for now. Otherwise, sit tight as gdfellows and iieee gradually work on Amharic.
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Yonatan
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![]() Posted: 23 April 2007 at 11:17pm |
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Wow.. thanks, good linkj.. I think I may just buy the books and tapes since I realize there is actually only view digitzed volumes online in the site.. seems like this Amharic course is very comprehensive. Someone mention that if you write the FSI in Wash Dc and send $2.25 they can send you the entire course or something like that, does anyone know if it is true?
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Chung
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![]() Posted: 23 April 2007 at 11:24pm |
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This is the thread you're probably thinking of: And yes it's irritating that the government now only sells its courses through NTIS at prices that are comparable to that of the third-party resellers like Multilingual Books.
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emptysilo
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I think it has been said before, but the audio for the Amharic is available online I think in full. Don't need to buy the tapes, just go here.
http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/amharic_a400.html Other material available. Don't seem to need a password even though it says you do. Hope that helps, ES. |
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zoshchenko
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Do they sell more recent versions than we have here on this site? I was amused to see multilingual.com selling these exact same courses for hundreds of dollars. I wonder how you say "caveat emptor" in Twi... or Igbo |
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Chung
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![]() Posted: 27 April 2007 at 10:23am |
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No. The FSI courses on this site are no older than the ones that NTIS sells. The only advantage with Multilingual Books is that some of the courses there can be bought as MP3s (via CD-ROM or download) at around $100 instead of $300-$400 for the courses with books and CDs/tapes.
Other than that, I think that NTIS is the better choice. If you buy from NTIS, almost all of its FSI courses are in the public-domain in the USA, thus you could donate most of the FSI courses obtained from NTIS and allow gdfellows to add more courses to the site.
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mmccain
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Joined: 06 May 2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
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Poetry,
what is Luganda. i need to learn Twi. what are some good learning materials that'a also cheap
thanks Edited by mmccain - 06 May 2007 at 1:14am |
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Poetry
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Joined: 11 March 2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 49 |
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Hi,
Luganda is spoken in the lake district in Uganda. It's got about 3 Million speakers, I think. It's tonal. Probably won't help you if you need Twi.
Twi is spoken in Ghana, which is on the western coast of Africa.
--Poetry
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mmccain
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![]() Posted: 06 May 2007 at 8:55pm |
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so you know where i can get good twi lessons
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