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Quote energik Replybullet Topic: FSI courses available at my university
    Posted: 05 June 2007 at 2:11pm

Hello,

I just discovered this website this week-end, and downloaded the Chinese course which is going to be great to continue my study!
I searched for other FSI materials, and there are actually quite a lot. I think it's only for the text, not the tapes, but I could try to find out more later.

Below is the complete list.
I am going to try and scan the Burmese first, but maybe people on the forum could request some other ones. I cannot promise I will scan everything but I'll try to do a few during the summer.

Here it is:

  
Amharic; basic course, units 1-[60, by] Serge Obolensky, Debebow Zelelie [and] Mulugeta Andualem.
   
Bulgarian basic course: units 1[-30] [By] Carleton T. Hodge and associates.
   
Bulgarian reader. Edited by Carleton T. Hodge.

Cambodian, basic course, by Richard B. Noss and Im Proum, with the assistance of Dale I. Purtle and Someth Suos.
   
Cantonese; basic course [by] Elizabeth Latimore Boyle with the assistance of Pauline Ng Delbridge and others.

Chinyanja; basic course. Based on Chinyanja texts, exercises, and tapes provided by D. Bandawe [and others] Organized and edited by Earl W. Stevick [and] Linda Hollander.
   
Communicating in Polish [by] Bernard Penny, and Krystyna T. Malinowska.
   
Contemporary Cambodian : political institutions / by Madeline E. Ehrman, Kem Sos, Lim Hak Kheang.

Contemporary Cambodian; the land and the economy, by Madeline E. Ehrman [and others]

Contemporary Cambodian: grammatical sketch...

Contemporary Cambodian; glossary, by Kem Sos, Lim Hak Kheang [and] Madeline E. Ehrman.
   
Contemporary Cambodian : the social institutions / by Lim Hack Kheang, Madeline E. Ehrman, Kem Sos.
   
Conversational Finnish = Suomea keskustellen / by Aili Rytkönen-Bell and H. David Argoff.
   
Conversational Finnish workbook = Suomea keskustellen työkirja / by Aili Rytkönen-Bell, with the assistance of H. David Argoff...[et al.]
   
Dutch reader [by] Allen I. Weinstein and Anny B. DeBoeck.
   
Finnish: graded reader.
   
French basic course : units 1- revised / by Monique Cossard, Robert Salazar.
   
French basic course. Units 1-[24] Supplementary exercises.   
   
French basic course. Units 1-[24]

French phonology : programmed introduction : instructor’s manual / by Robert Salazar.
   
French phonology : programmed introduction / by Robert Salazar.
   
From Eastern to Western Arabic / Margaret Omar.
   
From Spanish to Portuguese [by] Jack L. Ulsh.

Fula; basic course [by] Lloyd B. Swift, Kalilu Tambadu [and] Paul G. Imhoff.

German.
   
German basic course.
   
Greek basic course. [In charge of project]: S. Obolensky. [Greek texts by]: P. Sapountzis and A. Sapountzis.
   
Hungarian basic course, units 1-[24, by] Augustus A. Koski [and] Ilona Mihalyfy.
   
Hungarian graded reader [by] Ilona Mihalyfy and Augustus A. Koski.

Igbo; basic course [by] B. Swift, A. Ahaghotu [and] E. Ugorji.
   
Indonesian: newspaper reader [by]Joseph M. Harter, Jijis Chadran [and] Andang S. Poeraatmadja.
   
Italian: programmed : instructor’s manual / by Stephen Zappala.
   
Italian : programmed / by Stephen Zappala.
   
Kirundi, basic course. Based on Kirundi texts and exercises provided by Raymond Setukuru, Terence Nsanze and Daniel Nicimpaye. Organized and edited by: Earl W. Stevick.
   
Lao basic course [by] Warren G. Yates and Souksomboun Sayasithsena.
   
Levantine & Egyptian Arabic : comparative study / Margaret K. Omar.
   
Levantine Arabic; introduction to pronunciation [by] James A. Snow.
   
Lingala : basic course / [by] James Redden, F. Bongo and associates.

Luganda: basic course [by] Frederick Katabazi Kamoga [and] Earl W. Stevick.

Luganda: pretraining program [by] Earl W. Stevick [and] Frederick Katabazi Kamoga.

Moré, basic course [by] Marianne Lehr, James E. Redden [and] Adama Balima.
   
Portuguese : programmatic course / by Jack Lee Ulsh and associates.
   
Portuguese : programmatic course ; instructor’s manual / by Jack Lee Ulsh and associates.
   
Portuguese; programmatic course, by Jack Lee Ulsh and associates.
   
Reading Lao : a programmed introduction / Warren G. Yates, and Souksomboun Sayasithsena.
   
Romanian reference grammar / Christina N. Hoffman.
   
Russian: an active introduction. Materials developed by Nina De La Cruz; organized and edited by R. A. C. Goodison.
   
Saudi Arabic, urban Hijazi dialect : basic course / Margaret K. Omar.

Science, technology, and foreign affairs; report on the seminar held at the Foreign Service Institute, January 11 to February 5, 1965. Prepared by L.F. Audrieth [and] H.I. Chinn.
   
Serbo-Croatian; basic course. Units 1-[50. by] Carleton T. Hodge [and] Janko Jankovic with the assistance of Eleonora Ivanovich.
   
Shona : basic course / organized and edited by Earl W. Stevick.
   
Sinhala : basic course / by Bonnie Graham MacDougall, with Kamini de Abrew.
   
Spanish: programmatic course [by] C. Cleland Harris and associates.
   
Spanish; programmatic course : instructor’s manual / [by] C. Cleland Harris and associates.
   
Spanish programmatic course workbook / by Vicente Arbeláez, María C. Alvarez Ortega and Mercedes M. Centeno ; principal consultants Stephen Zappala and Stephen B. Stryker.

Spanish workbook.
   
Spoken Brazilian Portuguese.
   
Spoken Burmese / U Khin.

Spoken Dari / [A. Hafiz Latify ; edited by Marianne Lehr Adams].

Swahili; basic course [by] E. W. Stevick, J. G. Mlela [and] F. A. Njenga.

Thai; basic course [by] Warren G. Yates and Absorn Tryon.

Thai reference grammar.
   
Turkish basic course, graded reader, compiled by Selman N. Agrali [and others]

Turkish: basic course. [By] Lloyd B. Swift [and] Selman Agrali.
   
Twi basic course [by] J.E. Redden, N. Osusu, and associates.
   
Vietnamese; basic course, by Eleanor H. Jorden, Charles R. Sheehan [and] Nguyen-hy-Quang & associates.
   
Vietnamese; familiarization course [by] Nguyen-Hy-Quang, Eleanor H. Jorden & associates.

Yoruba; basic course [by] Earl W. Stevick [and] Olaleye Aremu.
   
Yoruba; intermediate texts [by] H. David McClure [and] John O. Oyewale.





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Quote onebir Replybullet Posted: 07 June 2007 at 10:16am
Surprised you haven't been snowed under with requests.  Whatever you do decide to scan, just make sure it's not online here already - quite a bit of the material you mention is -  & not in progress.  For the latter, it's best to ask; the status page can be a bit out of date.

Other than that, I'm sure whatever you can contribute would be much appreciated!
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Quote MrBrown Replybullet Posted: 07 June 2007 at 4:57pm
Yes, whatever you cook, I'll eat!  Approve
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Quote russky76 Replybullet Posted: 09 June 2007 at 3:42pm
Dear energik,
Thank you for your generous offer. If you don't mind and have enough time, could you please consider digitizing Serbo-Croatian; basic course?
It's very rare and valuable resource. Thanks in advance!
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Quote daristani Replybullet Posted: 09 June 2007 at 4:21pm
Regarding the Serbo-Croatian course, volume 1 was earlier posted on the site, but some of the pages were not clear, so I sent another and somewhat clearer copy to gdfellows for posting. He still has it, but has placed a fairly low priority on it due to lack of the tapes.  If I'm not mistaken, he also has the book for volume 2.  The problem is that no one involved in the site seems to have any of the audio files for this language, and the texts themselves are of little use without the accompanying audio drills.  Accordingly, I would suggest that, before digitizing anything, you look carefully through the available materials as well as the message boards to see what people may already have and be working on.  Additionally, a query to gdfellows might be useful in order to avoid possible duplication of materials that others might already be processing.

Your willingness to digitize the texts is very, very welcome, and much appreciated, but I agree with onebir that, in order to avoid possible duplication, it would be best to ensure beforehand that you don't pick something that someone else has already acquired and is in the process of making available, even if sometimes these efforts go awfully slowly.

As a final note, since you apparently have access to a wide variety of written texts but not the audio materials, I'd suggest that you might want to start with materials that were not very widely distributed and presumably don't require tapes.   Ones that jump out at me from your list include the readers, such as for Dutch and Turkish, which are less dependent on tapes than the basic and programmatic courses, and the reference grammars, such as for Romanian and Thai.  (These latter, I think, were not made very widely available, and thus your contributions with these could be fairly unique.)


In any event, whatever you decide upon, you can be sure that a lot of people will be very grateful for your efforts. Many thanks!.i
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Quote onebir Replybullet Posted: 09 June 2007 at 8:25pm
Originally posted by daristani

Ones that jump out at me from your list include the readers, such as for Dutch and Turkish, which are less dependent on tapes than the basic and programmatic courses


There is one potential problem with the readers though: they almost certainly use foreign material for which the copyright law is different.  Demipuppet identified this issue for the Indonesian Newspaper reader (access here is very slow, so I can't find the posts about it right now) - which is why (unfortunately) it hasn't been posted here, & might be able to tell you whether other readers would be subject to similar problems.

[Having said that, given the age of the readers, their format (ie designed specifically for language learners) & assuming their content is news (which is past it's sell by date after days, let alone years), I think the chances of copyright holders of the original material complaining is miniscule.  And I have a half-baked impression that under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, taking down the material if a complaint was received would be enough to protect the site owner from further sanctions.]
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Quote DemiPuppet Replybullet Posted: 09 June 2007 at 10:53pm
Here's the way I understand it:

  1. Until March 1, 1989, material needed to be officially registered with the US copyright office in order to be copyrighted in the US. In 1989 the US enacted the Berne Convention Implementation Act.  All new works (foreign and domestic) were automatically copyrighted.
  2. On December 8, 1994, President Clinton signed the Uruguay GATT agreement.  All foreign works that previously were not officially copyrighted now fell under US copyright.  Any work not in the public domain of the country of origin as of January 1, 1996 was copyrighted.  But anyone in the US who was publishing the material could continue to do so until they got an official notice from the copyright holder.  The copyright holder could not sue for damages.  Anyone who newly publishes foreign copyrighted material after that date could be sued. See: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38b.pdf
As onebir points out, most likely the material in each of the readers is copyrighted.  Anyone publishing the material before 1996 is granted immunity from lawsuit damages.  So early publishers such as Audio Forum could safely continue to publish.  But new publisher could be sued for  damages.  Even though the site may not be liable (not sure about that), the up-loader of the material would be.  For that reason I decided it was too risky for me to submit the FSI readers.  Others will need to do their own risk analysis.
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Quote ilmari Replybullet Posted: 12 June 2007 at 8:18am
If I may make a request, I personally would be most interested in the "Finnish Graded Reader".

Many thanks!
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Quote flutable Replybullet Posted: 17 June 2007 at 12:11am
Hi, I'd like to put in a "vote' for the Finnish Graded reader, as well.

If you had a PayPal account, I'd be happy to make a donation (call it a bribe if you wish :) ...even if it just pays for the coffee whilst you're standing next to the photocopier :)

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Quote Neosamurai7 Replybullet Posted: 23 June 2007 at 5:35pm
Due to the scarcity of available material on the language I would love to see Spoken Dari posted if at all possible. And not to give you too much work, but I'd also like to see the second volume of the Amharic course.


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