THE ULTIMATE MIDEAST/AFRICAN LANGUAGE LEARNING PACK DISK. COURSES ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED BY THE FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE. INCLUDES 7 MIDEAST/AFRICAN LANGUAGE LEARNING PROGRAMS ALL WITH MP3 AUDIO AND PDF TEXT FILES ALL ON 1 DVD-ROM DISK. GREEK, HEBREW, IRAQI, LEVANTINE ARABIC, SAUDI ARABIC, TURKISH & SWAHILI INCLUDED. THE FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE LANGUAGE COURSES ARE GENERALLY CONSIDERED SOME OF THE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING COURSES EVER MADE. THEY WERE GENERALLY DESIGNED FOR THE DIPLOMAT, SERVICEMAN AND OTHER FOREIGN SERVICE WORKERS TO QUICKLY AND EASILY LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND HAVE THE LANGUAGE SKILLS NECESSARY TO OPERATE AND SUCCEED IN THE COUNTRIES THEY WERE WORKING, LIVING OR STATIONED IN. HERE IS WHAT IS INCLUDED GREEK FSI COURSE THIS IS THE FSI GREEK LANGUAGE BASIC COURSE VOLUME 1: THIS COURSE INCLUDES THE STUDENT TEXT MANUAL AND MP3 audio files . THERE ARE 25 UNIT LEARNING SECTIONS + 5 REVIEW SECTIONS IN ALL, WITH MP3 AUDIO INSTRUCTION THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE STUDENT TEXT MANUAL.INTRODUCTION Greek is the official language of the present day kingdom of Greece. More than 95 percent of its population are native speakers of Greek. Other languages spoken in Greece are those of small minorities: Turkish, Bulgarian, Serbian, Sephardic (spoken mainly in Thessaloniki by the descendents of Jews formerly residing in Spain and Portugal), Albanian and some others. Outside the limits of Greece Greek is spoken in the neighboring islands, such as Bozca Ada and Imbroz (Turkey), Cyprus, as well as in surrounding countries, e.g. southern Albania, southern Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey (Istanbul). It is also spoken by large Greek communities in the Americas (U.S.A., Canada, Argentina, Brazil), in Europe, Africa and Australia. Like English, Greek belongs to the large Indo-Hittite (Indo-European) family of languages and spread over the Balkan peninsula sometime during the second millenium B.C. Ancient Greek appears to have been divided into four main groups of dialects: Arcadian-Cypriotic, Dorian, Aeolian and Ionian-Attic. Beginning in the 4th century B.C. the Ionian-Attic dialect spread all over the Greek speaking territories while other dialects began to decline and then disappeared completely in the.first centuries of the Christian era. Modern Greek presents a rather complex linguistic picture. On the one hand this language is the result of a normal linguistic evolution from the older Greek; on the other hand, however, intense nationalistic sentiments during certain periods of Greek history have preserved intact many morphological, syntactic and lexical elements of archaic Greek. As a result there are two broad types of language used in modern Greece, the 'popular', or dhimotiki, and the 'formal', or katharevusa. The former is the every-day language of the people containing loanwords from other languages which have been incorporated into the Greek language in the course of later Greek history. IDhimotikil is primarily a spoken language, that of Greek songs and ballads, and does not have a fixed orthography, but is largely used by modern writers of poetry and fiction. The latter (katharevusa) is a conscious and artificial return to older Greek, and is taught in schools and used for official purposes and in a more or less 'pure* form by newspapers. Since the 2nd century B.C. the Greeks have disputed among themselves about their language. At that time literary men scorned colloquial usage, consciously imitating the classical style in their works. The schism has continued to our days. OVER 300 INSTRUCTIONAL PAGES HEBREW FSI COURSE THIS IS THE FSI HEBREW BASIC COURSE: THIS COURSE INCLUDES BASIC SET WITH STUDENT PDF TEXT MANUALS . THERE ARE 40 LESSONS IN ALL WITH MP3 AUDIO INSTRUCTION THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE STUDENT PDF TEXT MANUALS . INTRODUCTION Americans know of Hebrew as the language of the Old Testament. Hebrew had been a living language, that is, it was spoken as a native language by a community of people, at least until the First Century, B.C., and possibly for several centuries after that. But even though it ceased to be a living language in this sense, a large and important body of literature has remained in constant daily use for prayer and study. During the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance Hebrew served as a lingua franca for Jews throughout the world, and the literature was expanded by scholars and poets. Hebrew thus was kept in continuous familiarity, and in the last century successful efforts were begun to revive it as a modern language. Today Hebrew is the official language of the State of Israel. It is being taught to immigrants speaking a wide variety,of native languages, and the coal is to have all the inhabitants learn to speak it. To be sure, modern Hebrew is different from the Biblical language.The phonology (sound system) has been symplified, and new syntactic patterns and vocabulary have been developed to express concepts not dreamed of two thousand years ago. But the modern language is unmistakably the descendant of the language of the Psalms and the prophets. The sounds of modern Hebrew are fairly easy for Americans to learn. Since only a minority of the present population are native speakers of Hebrew, foreign accents can hardly be called rare, and one should not feel the slightest embarrassment in making even halting efforts to speak it. PURPOSE It should be stated very clearly at the outset that this book is not intended as an elementary text for the study of the Bible or other Hebrew literature. It is also not intended as a reference grammar of Hebrew. There are a number of good books on the market to fulfill those needs. This book is intended as a training, manual, designed to teach a non-speaker of Hebrew to speak and comprehend with some degree of fluency an acceptable form of the modern language. Its relationship to a reference crammar is analogous to the relationship of a program of calisthenics to a textbook on physiology. The student is not supposed to read this book in order to find out about Hebrew; he is supposed to work at the material presented here until he can speak Hebrew, and he will have to work hard. The goal of this course is performance. One "knows" Hebrew in the same sense that one "knows" how to drive a car. It is not necessary to be an automotive engineer or to know the technical terms for the parts of a car in order to be a good driver. Many excellent drivers even have wrong notions about the mechanical aspects of an automobile. Similarly, it is not necessary to be able to discuss accurately and comprehensively the grammar of a language in order to speak it fluently and correctly. Intensive drillinc, will produce the proper habits. When the student participates in conversation easily and fluently with a minimum of either "accent" or of conscious effort then he has achieved the goal of the course. OVER 550 INSTRUCTIONAL PAGES USMC IRAQI COURSE
THIS IS THE Tactical Iraqi Arabic for Marine Expeditionary Forces. THIS
IRAQI/KURD SUPPORT COURSE INCLUDES 29 MP3 AUDIO LESSONS/SUPPLEMENTS WITH
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THIS IS THE FSI LEVANTINE ARABIC INTRODUCTION TO PRONUNCIATION COURSE: THIS
COURSE INCLUDES THE STUDENT TEXT MANUAL AS WELL AS THE Classical Arabic - The
Writing System TEXTBOOK AND THE Levantine and Egyptian Arabic - Comparative
Study TEXTBOOK. THERE ARE 19 UNIT LEARNING SECTIONS IN ALL WITH MP3 AUDIO
INSTRUCTION THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE STUDENT TEXT MANUAL.
THIS IS THE FSI SAUDI ARABIC BASIC COURSE (URBAN HIJAZI DIALECT): THIS COURSE
INCLUDES THE STUDENT TEXT MANUAL AS WELL AS THE Classical Arabic - The Writing
System TEXTBOOK AND THE EASTERN TO WESTERN Arabic TEXTBOOK. THERE ARE 48 UNIT
LEARNING SECTIONS IN ALL WITH MP3 AUDIO INSTRUCTION THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE
STUDENT TEXT MANUAL. Turkish is the principal language of the Republic of Turkey. It is a member, along with the related languages of Iranian and Soviet Azerbaijan and of various areas within the Soviet Union, mainly in Asia, of the Turkic group of the Altaic branch of the Uralic-Altaic language family. This Altaic branch also includes many other languages, mainly those grouped under the headings 'Mongol' and 'Manchu'. The Turkic languages are remarkably similar in structure and even in vocabulary, at least as closely related to one another as, say, the Romance group of Indo-European languages. The population of the Republic of Turkey is about 30,000,000, of whom the great majority are native speakers of Turkish, making Turkish by a considerable margin the largest language of the Turkic family. Among the remainder of the population of Turkey--native speakers of Kurdish, Laz, Circassian, Arabic, Greek, Armenian, Syriac and other languages--the great majority, at least of the men, have some acquaintance with Turkish. Thus this language will serve the student for communication in all parts of Turkey save the most isolated Kurdish village. In addition, substantial numbers of Turkish speakers are to be found in parts of Syria, Lebanon, Greece and Cyprus. Turkish can serve the student also as an introduction to the Turkic language family and provide him with a basis for establishing communication with Asian Turkic speakers as far east as Sinkiang Province in China and as far west as the Tatar regions on the Volga. Turkish Basic Course, Units 1-30, may be described as an introduction to spoken Turkish in that it includes the major patterns of simple sentences and a vocabulary of about 475 high frequency items. It is the first of a projected three-volume series. The subsequent volumes will complete the basic conversation course in approximately 60 units and will present graded reading selections as well as advanced exposition and conversation exercises. OVER 740 INSTRUCTIONAL PAGES SWAHILI FSI COURSE THIS IS THE FSI SWAHILI BASIC COURSE: THIS COURSE INCLUDES THE BASIC SET STUDENT PDF TEXT MANUALS . THERE ARE 95 LESSONS IN ALL WITH MP3 AUDIO INSTRUCTION THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE STUDENT PDF TEXT MANUALS . Swahili (also called Kiswahili) is a Bantu language the most widely spoken language of sub-Saharan Africa. Swahili is the mother tongue of the Swahili people who inhabit several large stretches of the Indian Ocean coastlines from southern Somalia as far south as Mozambique's border region with Tanzania. The number of native speakers is small, under 800,000. However, Swahili has become a lingua franca in much of East Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The name 'Kiswahili' comes from the plural of the Arabic word sahel sawahil meaning "boundary" or "coast" (used as an adjective to mean "coastal dwellers" or, by adding 'ki-' ["language"] to mean "coastal language"). (The word "sahel" is also used for the border zone of the Sahara ("desert")). The incorporation of the final "i" is likely to be the nisba in Arabic (of the coast), although some state it is for phonetic reasons. Swahili Basic Course aims first of all at assisting the student to develop ability in understanding and speaking everyday Swahili of a standard variety. On the basis of well-established speech habits, he can then go on with relatively high efficiency to the further skills of reading and writing. The course is designed for use in any of three general types of study situation: (1) a full-time language program of thirty or more hours per week, (2) a language program in which one or more part-time students attend class for three to six hours per week, and (3) individual study in the absence of any speaker of the language. OVER 550 INSTRUCTIONAL PAGES ALL COURSE MATERIALS ARE VERY EASY TO FOLLOW AND UNDERSTAND. JUST OPEN YOUR PDF STUDENT TEXT FILE AND START THE MP3 AUDIO FILE FOR LESSON 1. FOLLOW ALONG WITH YOUR MANUAL AND IN NO TIME YOU WILL BE ON YOUR WAY TO LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE. AS A SPECIAL BONUS WE ARE ALSO GIVING AWAY FREE 8 DIFFERENT LANGUAGE PHRASE E-BOOKS WITH EVERY PURCHASE. THESE INCLUDE DUTCH, FRENCH GERMAN, ITALIAN, JAPANESE, ROMANIAN, SPANISH AND SWEDISH. IF you have been looking for an easy to read and understand guides that will give you some short, but effective foreign phrases you can use when traveling, this is your solution! But, it's not just for when you're planning a trip to a one of these regions though because...
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