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August 24, 2006
Language courseware
Language courseware: Free courseware for human language, not computer. This volunteer effort has been creating PDF and MP3 files of the language-learning materials produced by the US Foreign Service Institute. This public-domain material has also been repackaged by Barron's, Audio Forum, others. It's '60s-style courseware, drills and sit-down-and-studyware, but it's a massive resource, very useful. Why the link here? Because I believe that it's advantageous for native English speakers to reach out to varied regions and cultures: English is where the world meets, a hub language -- those already at the hub have an easier time reaching out to varied spokes than it is to jump from spoke to spoke. Anyway, these US government materials are thorough, and free to use -- my thanks to those volunteers doing the digitizing -- more free online language-learning resources here... discussion of the Mandarin courseware here.
Posted by JohnDowdell at August 24, 2006 07:19 AM
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