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Platiquemos Fsi Language Program: Spanish, Level 8
54 CD's 8 Books The world's best Spanish course just got better! Don Casteel, fluent in several languages and a former Foreign Service Officer, is well trained in the FSI method, and has completely revised and improved "the course that works." This 2002 Edition has improved audio with both male and female voices and over 200 illustrations with factoids, and the content is more contemporary than ever. This new version has retained the same grammatical and language content that has made this the most widely sold course on the language market. This basic Spanish Course is designed for people who need to learn a language completely and quickly. It is an 8-level course that once completed will enable you to understand spoken and written Spanish. It will also allow you to actively engage in conversations with an abundant vocabulary of several thousand words. The texts average about 175 letter-size pages, and each Level has 6-8 full CDs of audio, replicating the drills and exercises found in the text.
181 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2002
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July 24, 2013
The three stars are basically for the original FSI material that was used to create this Spanish course. Seriously, how do you re-record audio that originated before the Beatles were even really a thing and have the new version sound worse? People are doing albums in their goddamn basements nowadays, and good ones.
I think a lot of it has to do with the nature of the alterations and the speakers chosen for the re-recording. First things first: the protagonist of this 55-hour drama has been changed to a female. I am totally fine with revisions to keep with the times (stop glaring at me, Black Nick Fury), but in this case it creates some titillating sexual drama that never comes to fruition. Two dudes drinking whiskey in an apartment and talking about one's impending engagement? Bro-fist. A man and a woman doing the same? Cinemax After Dark. ¡Qué salsa tan picante!
Some of the speakers that were chosen are also...interesting. First, we have the man I call "Dr. Marbles" for obvious reasons. Then there is a man who sounds like he is smoking three cigarettes simultaneously and is unwilling to move his lips. Finally, we are expected to believe that Jose is getting married to Carmen when Carmen sounds like she is 55 and trapped inside an abandoned grain silo.
Get the original FSI, available for free.
I think a lot of it has to do with the nature of the alterations and the speakers chosen for the re-recording. First things first: the protagonist of this 55-hour drama has been changed to a female. I am totally fine with revisions to keep with the times (stop glaring at me, Black Nick Fury), but in this case it creates some titillating sexual drama that never comes to fruition. Two dudes drinking whiskey in an apartment and talking about one's impending engagement? Bro-fist. A man and a woman doing the same? Cinemax After Dark. ¡Qué salsa tan picante!
Some of the speakers that were chosen are also...interesting. First, we have the man I call "Dr. Marbles" for obvious reasons. Then there is a man who sounds like he is smoking three cigarettes simultaneously and is unwilling to move his lips. Finally, we are expected to believe that Jose is getting married to Carmen when Carmen sounds like she is 55 and trapped inside an abandoned grain silo.
Get the original FSI, available for free.
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