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Download full textAshrif, Muhammad I. – 1965
This English-Mandinka dictionary is part of the Peace Corps language training instructional materials series. Many of the entries include sample sentences illustrating the use of a given item. (CLK)
Descriptors: African Languages, Dictionaries, English, Instructional Materials
Raulin, George – 1966
This material is a series of lessons prepared in French to give an introduction to the Kanouri language. The need for such material arose during a twelve-week Niger-Chad Peace Corps training project which took place at San Francisco State College in the summer of 1966. The teachers were bilingual French-Kanouri speakers, and it was therefore…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, African Languages
American Univ., Washington, DC. American Language Center. – 1960
This bilingual glossary is part of the Peace Corps Program and Training Journal Reprint Series, which is an attempt to provide technical support to Peace Corps volunteers and to share its material on "intermediate technology" with other participants in the international development community. The glossary consists of an English-Spanish…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Personnel, Agriculture, Glossaries
Peace Corps, Freetown (Sierra Leone). – 1985
Instructional materials for Krio, the creole spoken in Sierra Leone, are designed for Peace Corps volunteer language instruction and intended for the use of both students and instructors. Fifty-six units provide practice in language skills, particularly oral, geared to the daily language needs of volunteers. Lessons are designed for audio-lingual…
Descriptors: African Languages, Audiolingual Methods, Creoles, Cultural Traits
Samu, Samu M. – 1985
This Peace Corps guide to individual, independent, or group study of Chichewa provides basic conversational vocabulary and phrases necessary for Peace Corps volunteer survival skills in Malawi. The 20 lessons consist of dialogues, vocabulary, and exercises on these topics: greetings; self-introduction; discussing others; relatives; professions;…
Descriptors: African Languages, Conversational Language Courses, Daily Living Skills, Dialogs (Language)
Labu, Francis, Ed.; Marshall, Ann C., Ed. – 1978
A set of instructional materials for introductory Solomon Islands Pidgin, an English-based pidgin, is designed for Peace Corps volunteer language instruction. It consists of 12 units that contain dialogues, grammar and pronunciation notes, pattern and substitution drills, lists of vocabulary and useful expressions, and exercises based on the…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Cultural Education, Daily Living Skills, Dialogs (Language)
Mancienne, Roger – 1985
A course in French-derived Kreol is designed for language learning among Peace Corps volunteers assigned to the Seychelles. The materials consist of 36 lessons on topics of daily communication needs. Lessons contain a story, dialogue, and/or list of expressions, exercises, and vocabulary and grammar notes and translations in the margin. Some…
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Creoles, Daily Living Skills, Foreign Countries
Thayer, James E.; Maraby, Julien – 1966
The basic plan of this course in Sara is modeled after "An Experimental Course in Hausa" (FSI 1965). The course uses short cycles consisting of mimicry followed by conversations built on the same vocabulary and syntactic pattern. The format has been condensed and altered. The course contains 95 cycles and would require approximately 50 hours to…
Descriptors: African Languages, Audiolingual Methods, Cultural Education, Instructional Materials
Musa, Allieu V. V.; Pemagbi, Joe – 1987
A set of instructional materials for Mende is designed for Peace Corps volunteer language instruction and geared to the daily language needs of volunteers in Sierra Leone. It consists of two parts, a series of lessons on situations emphasizing vocabulary development through dialogues and drills, and a series of grammar lessons. Only the first…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Daily Living Skills, Dialogs (Language), Foreign Countries
Leta, Dejenie – 1975
The purpose of this text is to introduce the Oromo language, spoken in parts of Ethiopia and Kenya, to Peace Corps volunteers. The Oromo language (also referred to as Galla) used in the text is based on the standard language spoken in the western and southwestern provinces of Wollega, Illubabor, and Kaffa. However, with dialectal differences taken…
Descriptors: African Languages, Dialogs (Language), Grammar, Listening Comprehension
deZeeuw, Peter; Kruah, Rexanna – 1981
This book for Peace Corps volunteers on learning Mano, one of the languages of Liberia, is divided into two sections. The first section consists of ten lessons and two review lessons, while the second section has eight lessons and a final review lesson. Each lesson is divided into four or five sections: (1) tests and dialogues, (2) grammatical and…
Descriptors: African Languages, Cultural Awareness, Grammar, Independent Study
Corum, Claudia W., Comp. – 1980
Instructional materials for siSwati are designed for Peace Corps volunteer language and cultural training. The materials are in five parts. Part 1 contains bilingual readings containing factual information on Swaziland, including history, geography, industry, and its neighboring countries. This section is bilingual, with one page in siSwati and…
Descriptors: African Culture, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries
Hanchey, Stephen; Francis, Timothy P. – 1979
A set of instructional materials for Mauritanian Arabic is designed for Peace Corps volunteer language instruction and geared to the daily language needs of volunteers. It consists of introductory sections on language learning in general, the languages of Mauritania, pronunciation of the Hassaniya dialect, and the textbook itself, and 30 lessons…
Descriptors: Arabic, Behavioral Objectives, Conversational Language Courses, Cultural Education
Svare, Homa; And Others – 1966
These language materials were first prepared at the State University of Utah in connection with Peace Corps language programs in Persian. They are reproduced here with only slight modifications. This text is divided into seven main chapters: (1) Persian Vocabulary and Expressions for History, Law and Government (this section contains dialogues…
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Indo European Languages, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
