Foreign Service Institute Language Courses
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					 FSI Courses
				
				The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) is the United States
					federal government's primary training institution for employees of
					the U.S. foreign affairs community, preparing American diplomats as
					well as other professionals to advance U.S. foreign affairs
					interests overseas and in Washington.
				- excerpt from Wikipedia
				The courses available here are "old" courses. Cross the
					informations here with more recent sources as the vocabulary may
					have changed.
				
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					  DLI Courses
				
				The Defense Language Institute (DLI) is a United States
					Department of Defense (DoD) educational and research institution,
					which provides linguistic and cultural instruction to the
					Department of Defense, other Federal Agencies and numerous
					customers around the world. ... Other functions include planning,
					curriculum development, and research in second-language
					acquisition.
				- excerpt from Wikipedia
				The courses available here are "old" courses. Cross the
					informations here with more recent sources as the vocabulary may
					have changed.
				
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					 Peace-Corps Courses
				
				The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United
					States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes
					providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United
					States to understand American culture, and helping Americans to
					understand the cultures of other countries.
				- excerpt from Wikipedia
				These courses are mostly developed by volunteers and are
					available for a large set of languages with some very rare ones .
				
					The Peace-Corps courses »
				
			
		
			
				
					 Shtooka Old Website
				
				Shtooka was a project launched in 2006/2007 aimed to record
					and tag lists of vocabulary in different languages
				These lists are compiled into "collections" in various audio
					format such ogg, flac, mp3 speex.
				Technical information about the recording, linguistic
					information, copyrights are kept in tags embedded in the audio
					file. Search for swac tags in this page to get more information
				
					The original web site was down for a very long moment, so I built a
					copy with the help from the Internet Archives. The new Shtooka web
					site maintained by Nicolas Vion is here The new Shtooka Website »
				
				
					The old Shtooka Website »
				
			
			
				
					 Audio Collections
				
				The audio collections are collections of audio files of lists
					of vocabulary/phrases properly tagged
				You'll find them in different audio format
				Collections in Arabic, Belarussian, Czech, Chinese/Mandarin,
					German, English, Italian, French, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese,
					Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Serbian, Ukrainian, Wolof,
					Wuu/Shanghainese are available here.
				You may download file by file, or an entire collection at
					once.
				
					Audio
						collections »
				
			
			
				
					 Programs recording, training
				
				Here are some programs built to manage, browse the Shtooka
					collections. Some of them are quite old (like mine written in
					Python), some were written at the beginning of the project
				Be aware that the database format used by the swac* programs
					changed and some old programs cannot run with this new format.
				New programs which use the new database format were written
					by Nicolas Vion, but are only available as "source". I'll try to
					compile them for different platforms as soon as I get some free
					time ... yes ... an eternal problem
				
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					 Tutorials digitalizing
						etc ...
				
				The tutorial section will be devoted to various domains such
					digitizing documents, splitting audio etc ...
				I did ocred many FSI/DLI documents which you can find in the
					WIP section, and I'll explain how I did that, the tools I used,
					explanations about the format chosen.
				A tutorial about how to split and tag audio files with
					Audacity is already in the pipeline.
				
					Tutorials »
				
			
			
				
					 Work in progress
				
				The WIP section contains all my digitizing works: mostly FSI
					and DLI.
				The documents are available in different formats (docbook,
					pdf, epub, csv). I use the XML format, so I can extract
					vocabulary/phrases and in the future, maybe translate the
					documents, and generate different outputs like HTML, PDF, EPUB.
				
					Work
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					Cortina language courses
				
				Cortina is a company which developped language courses.
				The Cortina language materials (French, German, Greek,
					Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and
					Vietnamese) have been made available on this Website by the kind
					permission of the holder of the copyright, Magdalen Livesey, the
					President of Cortina International, Inc.
				
					The Cortina Courses »
				
			
			
			
			
								
									Helen Abadzi resources
									
								
								You'll find here some very rare and valuable resources, audio and texts, gathered over the years of learning, searching for language learning resources.
									These are resources for the following languages: Updated the 3th of June
									
										Albanian
										Bahasa
										Hindi
										Italian
										Malagasy
										Malawi
										Nepali
										Indonesian
										Swahili
									

								
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				Оксана Ахметова
			
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					site is not affiliated in any way with any government entity.
			

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