Language Courses in the Public Domain
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- Site dedicated to language learners, hosting FSI, DLI, and Peace Corps courses.
- Includes tutorials for importing vocabulary lists, digitizing documents, and recording word/phrase lists.
- Rebuilt the defunct Shtooka website to preserve its audio collections and programs.
- FSI and Peace Corps sections are complete; DLI and other parts are in progress.
- Site translations in French, Russian, and German underway, with French advanced.
- Cortina courses added for French, German, Greek, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and Vietnamese.
- Helen Abadzi section added with rare resources, with copyright concerns noted.
- Shtooka collections include audio files for various languages in formats like ogg, flac, mp3.
- Programs available for managing Shtooka collections, though some are outdated.
- Tutorial section planned for digitizing documents, splitting audio, and using tools like Audacity.
- WIP section contains digitized FSI and DLI documents in formats like docbook, pdf, epub, csv.
- Cortina courses provided with permission from copyright holder Magdalen Livesey.