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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops" xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:pls="http://www.w3.org/2005/01/pronunciation-lexicon" xmlns:ssml="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><head><title>Preface</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook-epub.css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"/><link rel="prev" href="index.xhtml" title="The RUSSIAN Fast Course"/><link rel="next" href="pr02.xhtml" title="Introduction"/></head><body><header/><section class="preface" title="Preface" epub:type="preface" id="d0e23"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title">Preface</h1></div></div></div><p>The Russian FAST course first appeared at FSI more than 15 years ago, and it has been
  2. growing and changing ever since. The current edition owes its existence to many individuals,
  3. all of whom we would like to thank. While time and space do not permit us to thank them all
  4. individually, we would like to bring special attention to the efforts of the following:</p><p>Without the computer skills and language teaching expertise of Language and Culture
  5. Instructor Garegin Petrosian, this book would not exist today. Thanks are also owed to Linda
  6. Coble and the staff in OMIS who responded, generously and promptly, to every request for
  7. software, as well as hardware.</p><p>Tatiana Hassan, Natasha Lord, Olga Shishkevish and many other Language and Culture
  8. instructors in the Russian Section make up the team which brought the first, and then later
  9. versions of the FAST course to our students. We are grateful to them all for their hard work
  10. and dedication. Special thanks are due Tatiana Hassan who has been the driving force behind
  11. the current FAST course and this latest version of the book.</p><p>Without the efforts of Lawrence Williams and David Coy in Multi-Media Operations we could
  12. not have produced the tapes which accompany this book. Thanks also go to those instructors in
  13. the Russian Section who lent their voices.</p><p>Thanks are also owed to all the Language and Culture Instructors in the Russian Section
  14. who gave so freely of their time to proofread, correct and suggest improvements to this
  15. book.</p><p>Our work on the FAST course has always enjoyed the support of our administration. We owe a
  16. special debt of gratitude to Dr. James Snow, Chair of NEE, Dr. David Argoff and Gary Crawford,
  17. Associate Deans of the School of Language Studies at FSI.</p><p>Finally, and most importantly, we are grateful to our students, who have so patiently
  18. helped us test these materials and who have so generously shared their comments. We have
  19. benefited greatly by their experiences, and we hope that our future students will do so as
  20. well.</p><p>Maureen Riley</p><p dir="ltr">Language Training Supervisor</p><p>Russian Language Section</p><p>September, 1995</p><div class="note" title="Note" epub:type="notice"><table style="border: 0; "><tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; width: 25px; " rowspan="2"><img alt="[Note]" src="images/note_319847762.png"/></td><th style="text-align: left; ">Note</th></tr><tr><td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; "><p>This course was formatted by Eric Streit (eric@yojik.eu) using the docbook format from
  21. the pdf scanned documents found on:</p><p>http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php .</p><p>The Russian part was checked by Gulnara Streit (my wife). You can find the pdf, epub
  22. versions on http://www.yojik.eu/ . (whole book or separate lessons)</p><p>Version: 25 April 2011</p></td></tr></table></div></section><footer/></body></html>