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- <?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
- growing and changing ever since. The current edition owes its existence to many individuals,
- all of whom we would like to thank. While time and space do not permit us to thank them all
- 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
- Instructor Garegin Petrosian, this book would not exist today. Thanks are also owed to Linda
- Coble and the staff in OMIS who responded, generously and promptly, to every request for
- software, as well as hardware.</p><p>Tatiana Hassan, Natasha Lord, Olga Shishkevish and many other Language and Culture
- instructors in the Russian Section make up the team which brought the first, and then later
- versions of the FAST course to our students. We are grateful to them all for their hard work
- and dedication. Special thanks are due Tatiana Hassan who has been the driving force behind
- 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
- not have produced the tapes which accompany this book. Thanks also go to those instructors in
- the Russian Section who lent their voices.</p><p>Thanks are also owed to all the Language and Culture Instructors in the Russian Section
- who gave so freely of their time to proofread, correct and suggest improvements to this
- book.</p><p>Our work on the FAST course has always enjoyed the support of our administration. We owe a
- special debt of gratitude to Dr. James Snow, Chair of NEE, Dr. David Argoff and Gary Crawford,
- 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
- helped us test these materials and who have so generously shared their comments. We have
- benefited greatly by their experiences, and we hope that our future students will do so as
- 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
- 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
- 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>
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