FSI – A Modular Approach
The Pronunciation and Romanization recordings here were the same I had used in college and the same we used when I taught at the University of Iowa a few years ago. They aren’t fancy, but they seem to work. And together with all the audio modules from Standard Chinese, this makes for quite a nice web resource. I can’t help but wish they had it in a flash format complete with chapter markings in the audio time-code, and maybe the text displayed in searchable form, but that would take plenty of development. Simple is good too.
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I've been teaching Chinese since 1998. This site was built to help my students practice the sounds of Chinese. Hope it continues to help others. Let me know if you have questions.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Hi there.. Thanks for the link. It was very very helpful. I am going teach a “Chinese for travelers” in the fall. This is a continue education class offered by community college close by. I did not require a text book because I could not find a good text book around $20 (the target price suggested by school). I really like the material presented FSI website. However I could not find any information about the legal right. Do you know whether the material is legally to redistribute to my students? or do you know the contact information of whom I can ask this question? Thank you for your help.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:41 am
I’m no lawyer, but as I understand it, any material produced by the federal government is in the public domain and not protected by copyright. Or it’s copyright belongs to the tax payers and we can do with it what we will. But again, I am not a lawyer.
July 14th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
I found a site who is offering the FSI Language Programs completely revised. its also searchable pdf format. I got the mandarin course for a small prize and it is much better to learn from it than the original FSI course. FSI is in my opinion the best language course! you can get it here: http://www.speedlearninglanguages.com
July 30th, 2009 at 2:32 am
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August 8th, 2009 at 11:51 am
@Michael
thank you I’ve downloaded Speedlearning Mandarin yesterday and have to say that it is really good. thanks for the advice!