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- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" version="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"><head xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" profile=""><title>Preface</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL-NS Stylesheets V1.76.1"/></head><body><div class="preface" title="Preface"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d0e14" shape="rect"/>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" alt="Preface"/></span></p><p> H. E. Sollenberger Dean, School of Languages Foreign Service Institute</p></div></body></html>
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