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- <title>Preface</title>
- <para>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.</para>
- <para>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
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- <para>H. E. Sollenberger Dean, School of Languages Foreign Service Institute</para>
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