Download or read book Nisei linguists Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II Paperbound written by James C. McNaughton and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2006 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book tells the story of an unusual group of American soldiers in World War II, second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served as interpreters and translators in the Military Intelligence Service."--Preface.
Download or read book Optimizing the Defense Language Institute English Language Center written by Thomas Manacapilli and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Defense Language Institute English Language Center (DLIELC) trains foreign nationals in English prior to their attending U.S. military education and training courses and plays a critical role in building partnerships. RAND evaluated options to optimize DLIELC1s output, made recommendations in eight critical management areas, and presented an implementation plan to DLIELC
Download or read book The Defense Language Institute written by Benjamin De La Selva and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Defense Language Institute," the author presents an extensive view of the best and largest foreign language institution in the world, by means of 100 plus articles written by faculty, staff, students, and alumni, originally published between 2005 and 2015 in quarterly DLI Alumni Association newsletters. The subjects encompass a general background of DLI's history, the establishment of military language training in the United States and abroad, as well as DLI's enterprising presence in Monterey, California. The book touches on a variety of themes relating to Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian Farsi, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese, then it proceeds to deal with a good number of the other thirty some languages taught at the Institute from 1941 to 2017. The book similarly deals with the academic areas of teaching, testing, course development, and technology; likewise it taps broadly on themes like social events, memorial ceremonies, the DLI Hall of Fame, the Berlin Wall Monument, alumni visits and reunions, and faculty and staff stories. It concludes with brief accounts of the DLI Alumni Association, and the DLI Foundation. Read about the nationally famous "Cossacks in Khaki" or "DLI Russian Choir" of the 1960s, details on the Arabic, Russian, and Serbian Croatian programs, and the rapid development of the Haitian Creole conversion course, as well as personal accounts of graduates using their language in foreign countries.
Download or read book Presidio of Monterey written by Harold E. Raugh Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-06-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Presidio of Monterey is best known as the home of the post-World War II Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, the Department of Defense's acknowledged leader in foreign language training. It has, however, a much longer and rich history. After the United States seized Monterey in 1846, the U.S. Army began constructing Fort Mervine, which served a number of purposes until it was abandoned in 1866. In 1902-1903, a modern cantonment was built in the area. In 1904, the new post was officially renamed the Presidio of Monterey after a nearby Spanish fort established in 1770 that had fallen into disuse. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the post was home to infantry and cavalry regiments, as well as an inductee reception center. The Military Intelligence Service Language School was moved to the Presidio of Monterey in 1946 and renamed the Army Language School in 1947; this evolved into the present-day Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.
Download or read book Culture and Customs of Venezuela written by Mark Dinneen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venezuela, one of the least-known countries in Latin America, is brilliantly spotlighted in Culture and Customs of Venezuela. This oil-rich nation sustained a stable democracy until the economic downturn in the 1980s, and changes in the social and political spheres will bring the country under increasing scrutiny from the outside world. Dinneen captures the sharp contrasts and immense variety of modern Venezuela. Students and interested readers will find engaging and authoritative overviews of the land, people, and history; religions; social customs; media; cinema; literature; performing arts; and art and architecture. This work successfully portrays the country's cultural richness and diversity. Influences from the United States are inescapable, especially in Caracas, but many distinctive traditions are continued throughout the country, varying from region to region. Religious rituals and numerous festivals that take place in towns and villages and the vibrant music scene, all major expressions of the nation's social and cultural life, are just some of the highlights found herein. Numerous photos give witness to Venezuela's diverse culture and a chronology, and glossary supplement the text.
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Download or read book Defense Language Transformation Roadmap written by Barry Leonard and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DoD needs a significantly improved organic capability in emerging languages and dialects, a greater competence and regional area skills in those languages and dialects, and a surge capability to rapidly expand its language capabilities on short notice. Contents of this report: (A) Goals: (1): Create Foundational Language and Regional Area Expertise; (2): Create the Capacity to Surge; (3): Establish a Cadre of Language Professionals; (4): Establish a Process to Track the Accession, Separation, and Promotion Rates of Military Personnel with Language Skills and Foreign Area Officers; (B) Def. Language Inst. Foreign Language Center Transformation; (C) Offices of Primary Responsibility and Dates for Full Operating Capability.
Download or read book Language Aptitude Reconsidered written by Thomas S. Parry and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1990 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book H R 1685 Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Spanish Basic Course written by Defense Language Institute Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workbook will help you practice and reinforce at home the lesson material you have studied during the day. The majority of activities is directly related to the lesson you are currently studying. Some activities serve as refresher of the material covered in earlier lessons, integrating it into current contexts.
Download or read book H R 1685 the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Act of 1991 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Voices Under Berlin written by Thomas Heinrich Edward Hill and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available: a special Tenth Anniversary Edition with bonus material to celebrate ten years of continuing reader demand. Look for it here on Amazon. Voices Under Berlin: The Tale of a Monterey Mary is the tale of one of the early skirmishes of the Secret Cold War told with a pace and a black humor reminiscent of that used by Joseph Heller (Catch-22) and Richard Hooker (M*A*S*H*). It is set against the backdrop of the CIA cross-sector tunnel operation to tap three Russian telecom�munications cables in Berlin in the mid-nineteen-fifties. It is the story of the American soldiers who worked the tunnel, and how they fought for a sense of purpose against boredom and the enemy both within and without. One of them is the target of a Russian "honey-trap," but which one? Kevin, the Russian transcriber, Blackie, the blackmarketeer, or Lt. Sheerluck, the martinet? The other end of the tunnel is the story of the Russians whose telephone calls the Americans are intercepting. Their end of the tale is told in the unnarrated transcripts of their calls. They are the voices under Berlin. * Dr. Wesley Britton, author of Spy Television, Beyond Bond: Spies in Fiction and Film, and Onscreen and Undercover: The Ultimate Book of Movie Espionage, calls Voices Under Berlin "a spy novel that breaks all the molds," adding that "in the tradition of Greene and Ambler, 'Voices Under Berlin' contains many literate qualities that make it a work of special consideration, worthy of an audience much broader than that of espionage enthusiasts or those interested in Cold War history. In fact, one indication of the book's quality is that it was among the award winners at the 2008 Hollywood Book Festival, a very rare honor for a spy novel." * Po Wong writing at bookideas.com says "Kevin is a hero in the mold of McMurphy, the rebellious asylum inmate who is the protagonist in Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Kevin manages to do his job despite the blind obedience to stringent regulations that frequently overrides common sense and intelligence in large military operations, and despite the widespread ineptness around him. ... Voices under Berlin is a coherent, funny, and often sardonic look at real espionage work. The detail is so realistic that you may find yourself wondering, as I did, whether this is a novel or the memoirs of an actual intelligence agent. Of course, if you're looking for James Bond, you won't find him here. What you will find is a fascinating account of what it must have been like to be toiling away at an important but often dreary job underneath the streets of Berlin during the Cold War years. * Midwest Book Review says one of the things that sets this novel apart is "the author's combining a genuine gift for humor with a deft literary astuteness in telling a story that fully engages the reader quite literally from first page to last." Winner of six book awards. Also by this author: Berlin in Early Cold-War Army Booklets The Day Before the Berlin Wall: Could We Have Stopped It? - An Alternate History of Cold War Espionage Berlin in Early Berlin-Wall Era CIA, State Department, and Army Booklets Reunification: A Monterey Mary Returns to Berlin Berlin in D�tente-era Berlin Brigade Booklets
Download or read book Foreign Language Testing written by Mary Finocchiaro and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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