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- <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Preface</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"/><link rel="home" href="index.xhtml" title="GERMAN Basic Course"/><link rel="up" href="index.xhtml" title="GERMAN Basic Course"/><link rel="prev" href="co01.xhtml" title=""/><link rel="next" href="pr02.xhtml" title="Introduction"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Preface</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="co01.xhtml">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pr02.xhtml">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div class="preface"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d5e10"/>Preface</h1></div></div></div><p>This Basic Course in German has been designed to assist United States Government
- representatives who require a command of spoken German. The general concept of this text has
- grown out of the plan of Spoken Language courses prepared under the auspices of the American
- Council of Learned Societies during World War II. But pattern drills and other exercises have
- been developed extensively at the Foreign Service Institute to provide a much fuller
- manipulation of forms and patterns, and a conscious attempt has been made to adapt situations
- and vocabulary to specific needs of the Foreign Service. And the course is intended to lay a
- solid foundation for comprehensive language skills, providing systematically for the
- development of reading proficiency based on oral- aural skills.</p><p>This text is the end-product of several years of work and has benefited from the labors of
- many members and former members of the FSI staff. In its present form it was prepared under
- the supervision of Or. Samuel A. Brown, who has had overall responsibility for the arrangement
- of situational material and for the organization and presentation of structural features.
- Particular credit for the dialogs and much of the drill material goes to Mrs. Use Christoph.
- Mrs. Christoph has been assisted by Mrs. Maria-Luise Bissonnette, Mr Friedrich Lehmann, Mr.
- Gerhard Matzel, Mrs. Margarete Plischke and Mrs. Erika Quaid. A most valuable contribution was
- also made by Mrs. Quaid in preparing the major part of the typescript, assisted by Miss
- Geneviève Ducastel. The project has been a cooperative venture, however, and all members of
- the German staff have contributed freely the fruit of their classroom experience and the gifts
- of their imagination and insight.<span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="../../Images/Fsi-GermanBasicCourse-Volume1-StudentText-4.png"/></span></p><p>H. E. Sollenberger Dean, School of Languages Foreign Service Institute</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="co01.xhtml">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pr02.xhtml">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.xhtml">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Introduction</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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