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Japanese/Hindi/Russian Languages listed but no content

PostPosted: May 3rd, 2010, 9:46 am
by thenrik
Hi:

There are a number of languages listed such as Japanese, Hindi and Russian with little or no content. There might be a link to a pdf but no audio files. Are there plans to post these later? Should we check back or are the tapes and materials lost?

Thanks,

Tom

Re: Japanese/Hindi/Russian Languages listed but no content

PostPosted: May 3rd, 2010, 11:57 am
by chung
There are always plans to post more relevant material - as it becomes available. FSI did not make all of its old material available for public consumption. Remember that these courses were originally only to have been used within the walls of the Foreign Service Institute, and it has been up to the federal government to release this material for use by outsiders (i.e. offered for sale at NTIS) notwithstanding the rather haphazard nature of this release.

For Russian, a volunteer has already managed to digitalize the FSI Russian FAST text and its audio for distribution at this website.

Re: Japanese/Hindi/Russian Languages listed but no content

PostPosted: May 28th, 2010, 12:41 pm
by alexw
You should post the Japanese language course.

Re: Japanese/Hindi/Russian Languages listed but no content

PostPosted: June 1st, 2010, 5:12 pm
by superstarhollyann
There is now a Japanese Language course listed, but it is not very straightforward, as it keeps referring to the instructor for such and such a thing. It would be really helpful if at some point they made the Teacher's version available. I am trying to create a beginning Japanese group with my friends and I believe this has the ability to become a very excellent resource. So is anyone aware of the teacher's copy becoming available at all, any time soon?