FSI Courses
The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) is the United States
federal government's primary training institution for employees of
the U.S. foreign affairs community, preparing American diplomats as
well as other professionals to advance U.S. foreign affairs
interests overseas and in Washington.
- excerpt from Wikipedia
The courses available here are "old" courses. Cross the
informations here with more recent sources as the vocabulary may
have changed.
The
FSI courses »
DLI Courses
The Defense Language Institute (DLI) is a United States
Department of Defense (DoD) educational and research institution,
which provides linguistic and cultural instruction to the
Department of Defense, other Federal Agencies and numerous
customers around the world. ... Other functions include planning,
curriculum development, and research in second-language
acquisition.
- excerpt from Wikipedia
The courses available here are "old" courses. Cross the
informations here with more recent sources as the vocabulary may
have changed.
The
DLI courses »
Peace-Corps Courses
The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United
States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes
providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United
States to understand American culture, and helping Americans to
understand the cultures of other countries.
- excerpt from Wikipedia
These courses are mostly developed by volunteers and are
available for a large set of languages with some very rare ones .
The Peace-Corps courses »
Shtooka Old Website
Shtooka was a project launched in 2006/2007 aimed to record
and tag lists of vocabulary in different languages
These lists are compiled into "collections" in various audio
format such ogg, flac, mp3 speex.
Technical information about the recording, linguistic
information, copyrights are kept in tags embedded in the audio
file. Search for swac tags in this page to get more information
The original web site was down for a very long moment, so I built a
copy with the help from the Internet Archives. The new Shtooka web
site maintained by Nicolas Vion is here The new Shtooka Website »
The old Shtooka Website »
Audio Collections
The audio collections are collections of audio files of lists
of vocabulary/phrases properly tagged
You'll find them in different audio format
Collections in Arabic, Belarussian, Czech, Chinese/Mandarin,
German, English, Italian, French, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese,
Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Serbian, Ukrainian, Wolof,
Wuu/Shanghainese are available here.
You may download file by file, or an entire collection at
once.
Audio
collections »
Programs recording, training
Here are some programs built to manage, browse the Shtooka
collections. Some of them are quite old (like mine written in
Python), some were written at the beginning of the project
Be aware that the database format used by the swac* programs
changed and some old programs cannot run with this new format.
New programs which use the new database format were written
by Nicolas Vion, but are only available as "source". I'll try to
compile them for different platforms as soon as I get some free
time ... yes ... an eternal problem
Programs »
Tutorials digitalizing
etc ...
The tutorial section will be devoted to various domains such
digitizing documents, splitting audio etc ...
I did ocred many FSI/DLI documents which you can find in the
WIP section, and I'll explain how I did that, the tools I used,
explanations about the format chosen.
A tutorial about how to split and tag audio files with
Audacity is already in the pipeline.
Tutorials »
Work in progress
The WIP section contains all my digitizing works: mostly FSI
and DLI.
The documents are available in different formats (docbook,
pdf, epub, csv). I use the XML format, so I can extract
vocabulary/phrases and in the future, maybe translate the
documents, and generate different outputs like HTML, PDF, EPUB.
Work
in progress ... »
Cortina language courses
Cortina is a company which developped language courses.
The Cortina language materials (French, German, Greek,
Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and
Vietnamese) have been made available on this Website by the kind
permission of the holder of the copyright, Magdalen Livesey, the
President of Cortina International, Inc.
The Cortina Courses »
Helen Abadzi resources
You'll find here some very rare and valuable resources, audio and texts, gathered over the years of learning, searching for language learning resources.
These are resources for the following languages:
Updated the 3th of June
- Albanian
- Bahasa
- Hindi
- Italian
- Malagasy
- Malawi
- Nepali
- Indonesian
- Swahili
Helen page »
Links 
Other
language resources