FSI Spanish Basic Course Volume 1-4

• 2018-01-17 - Volume 1 fixes
• 2018-01-28 - Volume 2 fixes
• 2018-02-09 - Volume 3 fixes
• 2018-03-23 - Volume 4 fixes
• 2018-08-25 - Better images (almost every image replaced)
  • fixed typos, missing tildes/accents
  • fixed some audio clips, added missing pronouns to some replacement drills (volume 1 and 2)
  • English translations are now displayed on top of other extras
• 2019-12-28 - fixed typos, audio clips, misc. formatting cleanup.
  • pictures updated
  • New Exercise: Conversation Stimulus (Units 3 to 16). Contains an audio clip on the front and the text on the back. Can be used however you want: test listening, read along, etc.
• 2020-10-30 - drills added to Volume 1, 3, and 4. English added to translation drills.
  • fixed some confusing cards.
  • removed spans on cards that caused text to not appear when Night Mode is off.
  • added exercise names to the unit heading - you can now search for a specific drill (e.g. "response drill") in the browser and make filtered decks with tags or addons.
• 2024-08-30 - Basic Dialogues

 

This deck contains most of the exercises found in the FSI Basic Spanish course units 1 through 55.

Basic Dialogs

The Basic Dialogs introduce new vocabulary and grammar points for each unit. You can listen and repeat, or listen only. These are long cards — they can be suspended and used as reference in the Anki browser.

Enable the replay buttons in 'Preferences > Review > ☑ Show play buttons on cards with audio' to replay each individual sentence.

There are 2 Note Types for Basic Dialogs and can be changed from one to another: FSI.dialog.parallel and FSI.dialog.interleave

• FSI.dialog.parallel

The Basic Dialogs for units 1 and 2 are shown using this card type, and shows Spanish on the right and English on the left. Parallel cards look best on large resolutions, if the text is really long. To keep everything in view, you can: zoom out (ctrl+mousewheeldown), break sentences into new lines, or apply word wrap by changing white-space: nowrap to white-space: wrap in styling (though the translation will likely not line up due to different sentence lengths).

• FSI.dialog.interleave

Units 3 to 55 uses this card type for Basic Dialogs, and shows Spanish on the frontside, with the translation below each Spanish sentence on the backside.

Both these note types look best on Desktop.
For Ankidroid: The javascript works in the ankidroid reviewer, but not in the previewer. I think the team is working on the issue.

Both Note types have a 'Show/Hide' button to toggle the translation, shown on the back.

Apologies it took so long to include the Basic Dialogs—I realize that they're invaluable. I didn't know how to implement it at the time, but I've done my best to make it work. Hopefully this will remove friction of having to open the textbooks and scrubbing the audio files.

Drills

There is one note type for all the different exercises in the course. Here's a quick rundown:

Front:

• Question/Picture - This field will either have a question (in response drills) or a sentence that needs to be changed/conjugated (replacement/pattern/substitution drills). The word that needs to be changed is usually (but not always i.e. replacement drills) in italics. In Basic Sentence exercises it will have a sentence with a word blanked out and a picture.
• Replacement - what you need to replace the sentence in the question field with or a hint of what the response will be. In dialogues and vocabulary it will have the definition of the word in Spanish.

Back:

• Back picture - a picture of the answer to help with recall. Empty most of the time.
• Answer - The correct answer/sentence to the front will be displayed here.
• extras - Example sentences (in Spanish), English translations, and notes from dialogue exercises are displayed here.
• unit - What unit you are on and the name of the exercise. Displayed on top left corner add reverse - never used but you can make reverse cards here if you want.

Some exercises might be confusing at first until you go through a few cards to get a feel for the deck. The exercise name on the top left will provide guidance on what to do.

If you feel that some of the exercises are too difficult you can fill in more blanks or more hints in the replacement field and/or add more English. Going through these flashcards after completing the unit with the textbook is advised.

Most variation drills are not included. These drills are a bit too repetitive and similar.

Not every replacement drill sentence is included. I looked for ones that changed either the quantity and/or gender so you would not only replace one word but two or more.

Course Textbooks here: https://archive.org/details/Fsi-SpanishBasicCourse-StudentText/Fsi-SpanishBasicCourse-Volume1-StudentText/

The FSI Basic Spanish course is in the public domain. Questions or comments email: ankifsiesp/at/protonmail/dot/com

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