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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 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 Stylesheets V1.79.2"/></head><body><div class="preface"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d0e23" shape="rect"/>Preface</h1></div></div></div><p>The Russian FAST course first appeared at FSI more than 15 years ago, and it has been
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  2.       growing and changing ever since. The current edition owes its existence to many individuals,
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  3.       all of whom we would like to thank. While time and space do not permit us to thank them all
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  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
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  5.       Instructor Garegin Petrosian, this book would not exist today. Thanks are also owed to Linda
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  6.       Coble and the staff in OMIS who responded, generously and promptly, to every request for
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  7.       software, as well as hardware.</p><p>Tatiana Hassan, Natasha Lord, Olga Shishkevish and many other Language and Culture
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  8.       instructors in the Russian Section make up the team which brought the first, and then later
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  9.       versions of the FAST course to our students. We are grateful to them all for their hard work
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  10.       and dedication. Special thanks are due Tatiana Hassan who has been the driving force behind
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  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
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  12.       not have produced the tapes which accompany this book. Thanks also go to those instructors in
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  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
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  14.       who gave so freely of their time to proofread, correct and suggest improvements to this
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  15.       book.</p><p>Our work on the FAST course has always enjoyed the support of our administration. We owe a
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  16.       special debt of gratitude to Dr. James Snow, Chair of NEE, Dr. David Argoff and Gary Crawford,
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  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
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  18.       helped us test these materials and who have so generously shared their comments. We have
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  19.       benefited greatly by their experiences, and we hope that our future students will do so as
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  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" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><table border="0" summary="Note"><tr><td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" colspan="1"><img alt="[Note]" src="images/note_319847762.png"/></td><th align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Note</th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><p>This course was formatted by Eric Streit (eric@yojik.eu) using the docbook format from
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  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
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  22.         versions on http://www.yojik.eu/ . (whole book or separate lessons)</p><p>Version: 25 April 2011</p></td></tr></table></div></div></body></html>
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