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- <title xmlns:ng="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng">Preface</title><meta xmlns:ng="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng" name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The RUSSIAN Fast Course"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="The RUSSIAN Fast Course"><link rel="prev" href="index.html" title="The RUSSIAN Fast Course"><link rel="next" href="pr02.html" title="Introduction"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Preface</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pr02.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="preface"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="d5e17"></a>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" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><table border="0" summary="Note"><tr><td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="file:/opt/bin/Xml/Oxygen%20XML%20Editor%2021/frameworks/docbook/css/img/note.png"></td><th align="left">Note</th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="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></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pr02.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">The RUSSIAN Fast Course </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Introduction</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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