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Defense Language Institute’s Foreign Language Center Resources DLIFLC has made many of its online materials available to the public. For resources including an online diagnostic assessment and an accents library, go to: http://www.dliflc.edu/products.html Field Support Modules Field Support Modules provide area studies materials in English for specific geographic regions. They also provide survival-level materials for the languages of these regions. No password required. http://fieldsupport.lingnet.org Available in: Afghanistan – Dari, Pashto | Foreign Azerbaijan – Azeri | China – Catonese | Egypt – Egyptian Arabic | Ethiopia – Amharic | Georgia Contact – Georgian | Haiti – Haitian Creole | Indonesia Language – Indonesian | Iran – Persian Farsi | Iraq – Iraqi SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES Arabic, Kurdush (Kumanji, Sorani) | Israel – 703-302-6771 Hebrew | Liberia | Pakistan – Punjabi, Urdu | [email protected] Self-Guided Phillippines – Cebuano, Ilocano | Somalia – Somali | Sudan – Sudanese Arabic | Syria – Syrian Arabic | Turkey - Turkish Study Resources U.S. Department of State School of Language Studies National Foreign Affairs Training Center Foreign Service Institute, School of Language Studies National Foreign Affairs Training Center Room F -4217 U.S. Department of State Washington, D.C. 20522-4201 Self-Guided Language Study The following is a list of resources for self-guided language study. This collection of commercial and government resources is available for U.S. government personnel free of charge. The information is provided as a reference, and not an endorsement of any product. Mango Languages Mango Languages uses a variety of integrated cultural lessons, and content for common interactions. Direct Hire State Department employees, eligible family LangMedia members (EFMs), and members of household (MOHs) LangMedia offers examples of authentic language spoken in can access Mango by signing up for SR041, FSI Online its natural cultural environment so that students of all ages Language Resources, through OpenNet. can better understand the interplay between a language http://reg.fsi.state.gov/CourseCatalog.aspx?EventId=SR041 and its culture. No password is required. Available in: Arabic – Levantine | Chinese – Cantonese, http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/lm_collection.html Mandarin | Croatian | Czech | Danish | Dutch | Farsi | Available in: Arabic | Bangla/Bengali | Bosnian | Bulgarian | Finnish | French | German | Greek | Haitian Creole | Croatian | Czech | French | German | Greek | Hindi | Hebrew | Hindi | Indonesian | Irish | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Norwegian | Portuguese – Brazilian | Russian | Hungarian | Indonesian | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Norwegian | Portuguese | Romanian | Serbo-Croatian | Slovak | Spanish – Latin American | Tamil | Thai | Serbian | Slovak | Spanish | Swahili | Thai | Turkish | Turkish | Ukrainian | Urdu | Vietnamese Joint Language University Turkmen | Twi | Ukrainian | Urdu | Vietnamese | Wolof| JLU offers a searchable collection of listening and Yoruba | Zulu Rosetta Stone Online reading lessons. All State Department employees with a valid .mil or .gov email address are eligible Language Library to use JLU free of charge. To access JLU, create GLOSS FSI offers the Rosetta Stone language learning program GLOSS is a searchable collection of listening and reading in several languages at varying skill levels via the FSI your own account. If you have any questions, lessons. No password is required. LearnCenter. A limited number of licenses are available email [email protected]. http://gloss.dliflc.edu and registration is taken on a first-come, first-serve http://jlu.wbtrain.com basis. Department employees, their EFMs, and MOHs Available in: Albanian | Arabic* | Azerbaijani | Balochi | are eligible to enroll. Chinese | Croatian | Dari | French | Greek | Hausa | http:/fsi.state.gov/admin/reg/default.asp?EventID=SR042 Hebrew | Hindi | Indonesian | Japanese | Korean** | Annenberg Media Kurdish*** | Korean | Pashto | Persian | Portuguese | This is an instructional video series that serve as Punjabi | Russian | Serbian | Somali | Spanish | Swahili | FSI Online Language an introduction to French, German, and Spanish. Tagalog | Thai | Turkish | Turkmen | Urdu | Uzbek Resources These series are available on the Internet in the FSI Online Language Resources (SR041) offers language *Lessons available in Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian, Gulf- United States and Canada. All Department of materials used previously in selected FSI language State employees, EFMs, and MOHs may use these Arabic, Iraqi, Levantine, Sudanese, and Yemeni Colloquial Arabic classes, and now re-purposed for self-guided use. **Lessons available in Korean and North Korean series free of charge. Registration is required. ***Lessons available in Kurdish-Kurmanji and Kurdish-Sorani Register via OpenNet. State Department employees, http://www.learner.org their EFMs, and MOHs are eligible to enroll. http://fsi.state.gov/admin/reg/default.asp?EventID=SR041 .
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