Peace Corps courses

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Peace Corps courses

Postby unzum on May 4th, 2010, 8:38 am

As some of you may be aware, Peace Corps has produced a huge number of language textbooks with audio, however, availability on the internet is rather sketchy.
As far as I'm aware the textbooks are not in copyright, as they were made for charity volunteers by the Peace Corps, which is a federal government agency.

Many of the pdf manuals have been uploaded onto ERIC but the accompanying audio is harder to find.
Several of the courses with audio used to be available here but access is now being denied.

As there seems to be no official Peace Corps effort to make their language manuals available on the internet, is there anyone who could step up and make a website to host these language materials?

If there was an unofficial site like fsi-language-courses.org then people who have the audio for these language courses would have a place to send it in.
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Re: Peace Corps courses

Postby VagabondPilgrim on May 20th, 2010, 8:58 pm

I've been aware that the Peace Corps had a selection of language courses, but had always assumed that they were copyrighted.

Much as I like the idea, though, there's no way I could set anything up till late this year or early next year. It's all I can do to keep this site going right now. ;)

-VP
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Re: Peace Corps courses

Postby LordOfTheExacto on January 29th, 2011, 12:01 pm

The page may be currently down, but he Wayback Machine has them preserved.

http://web.archive.org/web/200803020013 ... gelessons/

I did download one to make sure they were intact. Assuming they're not copyrighted, then help yourself!
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Re: Peace Corps courses

Postby unzum on January 31st, 2011, 9:34 am

If you use the link LordoftheExacto posted you can get the URL for the zip files and download them from the actual website (not the Wayback machine). I've used this when listing the links for these Peace Corps courses that are on my website, So you want to learn a language.

The annoying thing is that it's no longer possible to check if any new language courses have been uploaded, and the Peace Corps don't seem like they're in much of a hurry to upload the links on the official website :(
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