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| Welcome to fsi-language-courses.org - the home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain. Language Courses designed by the State Department Shortly after WWII, the Foreign Service Institute of the US State Department produced language courses for its employees serving on overseas assignments. These language courses were designed for complete beginners and included many hours of audio, as well as several repetition and response drills. The focus was on listening and speaking, and less so on reading and writing. The FSI language courses are in the public domain and therefore have no copyright protection. Many of the courses are available to download for free at FSI Language Courses and they were donated by generous people who spent many, many hours digitizing the course books and cassettes into PDF and MP3 formats. Since HTML versions do not yet exist, I am trying to convert the PDFs into webpages that integrate the sound files, but it's a very time-consuming project. I would also like to make DOC or EPUB versions for more portability. UpdatesCatching UpJanuary 16, 2011 The following texts have been posted over the months since this page's last update:
Various UpdatesApril 16, 2010 There have been several updates over the last few months. They include:
New MaterialJanuary 29, 2010 Spanish Headstart for Puerto Rico is now available as well as the text for Headstart for the Philippines.New MaterialNovember 12, 2009 The texts for the French and Italian Headstart courses are now available. Russian FAST has also been added.New TextSeptember 12, 2009 The text for Bulgarian Basic, Volume 2 is now available. Also, the bookmarks in Volume 1 have been updated. Many thanks to Oberon!WARNING!August 23, 2009 Last week, it was discovered that the forum located at the original site was generating a script that creates a hidden frame which contains a link to a known malware site. That forum has since been shutdown.However, the same script has recently been detected in other areas of that site. You should not visit the original site unless you have disabled javascript (or just use the noscript plugin on Firefox). New ForumAugust 23, 2009 This site's forum is now open. Please read the guidelines before posting.New AudioJuly 27, 2009 DemiPuppet has provided the following audio:
Updated AudioJune 23, 2009 MartinS has provided better quality audio files for the Korean Basic Course. See the Revision Notes for more details.He's also provided a cleaned up version of Tape 9.1 of the German Basic Course. And last, but not least, DemiPuppet has provided audio for Volume 2 of the Spanish Basic Course! New MaterialMay 27, 2009 DemiPuppet has provided the following material:
Updated AudioApril 26, 2009 Audio for the French Basic Course (Units 1-18) has been updated with a new, improved version. Thanks, once again, to DemiPuppet!New MaterialApril 24, 2009 Audio for Bulgarian Volume 2 and the Shona Basic Course is now available. Thanks, as always, to DemiPuppet!Bulgarian Audio AddedMarch 12, 2009 Audio files (once again provided by DemiPuppet) have been posted for Volume 1 of the Bulgarian Basic Course. An updated text is also posted.Improved AudioFebruary 21, 2009 DemiPuppet has provided higher quality audio for the Cantonese Basic Course - Volume 1.New AudioJanuary 31, 2009 Audio for the Yoruba Basic Course is now available, thanks to onebir!New MaterialJanuary 17, 2009 Posted the texts for Modern Written Arabic Volume 3 and Serbo-Croatian Basic Volume 2. Thanks once again to DemiPuppet!Also posted the audio for Serbo-Croatian Volume 1. Thanks to liddytime! Uploaded more OCRed files from DemiPuppet. They are:
Odds and EndsJanuary 14, 2009 Uploaded new OCRed files from DemiPuppet. They are:
New LookJanuary 3, 2009 Decided to change the look of the site to a more "FSI" feel. Hopefully, I haven't gone too far with it.Also, updated the Spanish To Portuguese audio, fixed a broken link (German Programmatic Introduction Unit 10 Tape 2), and began linking to some off-site material. Still working on the forum. Updated TextsDecember 31, 2008 DemiPuppet has kindly provided OCRed versions of the Finnish, French, Greek, and Hungarian texts. | |||
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