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foreign language training tur kish urkish tur kish basic course produced by the national foreign affairs training center the turkish basic course is an introduction to spoken turkish in that it includes the major patterns of simple sentences and vocabulary of about 475 high frequency items it provides a basis for communicating with asian turks as far east as sinkiang province in china and as far west as the tatar regions on the volga the course enables students to communicate in all but the most isolated kurdish villages each unit begins with a dialogue between two or more speakers many of the units also include variation and lexical drills questions for discussion notes grammar and vocabulary drills and narratives turkish basic course units 1-30 urkish course 14 audiocassettes order no av008678ae00cgi with text $170 order no av004127ae00cgi without text $112 order no ava20637bb00cgi text only $70 urkish course turkish basic course units 31-50 13 audiocassettes order no ava00723ae00cgi with text $160 order no ava00721ae00cgi without text $104 order no ava20638bb00cgi text only $70 indicates tone by using diacritical marks unit one of this course consists of 48 drills of pairs of words that are distinguished by tone or consonant and vowel differences that often cause difficulty for speakers of english other units include basic dialogues notes and drills such as lexical substitution question and answer drills and pattern twi basic course 9 audiocassettes order no av008685ae00cgi with text $180 order no av004129ae00cgi without text $120 order no ava20639bb00cgi text only $70 vietnamese vietnamese basic course produced by the national foreign affairs training center the vietnamese basic course begins with a guide to pronunciation because vietnamese is a tone language in which the meaning of a word can change when it is pronounced with a different musical pitch or pitch contour course pronunvietnamese basic course volume 1 guide to pronunciation lessons 1-10 22 audiocassettes order no av008691ae00cgi with text $260 order no av004131ae00cgi without text $190 order no ava20640bb00cgi text only $80 course vietnamese basic course volume 2 lessons 11-15 10 audiocassettes order no av008734ae00cgi with text $180 order no av004133ae00cgi without text $120 order no ava20641bb00cgi text only $80 urkish tur kish headstar t produced by the defense language institute this course is designed to help you communicate in situations you are likely to meet with in turkey the emphasis of this course is on speaking and understanding turkish the course is divided into 12 modules with module 12 in two sections covering the following cultural notes greetings introductions directions time and dates food and drinks traveling shopping talking about yourself renting an apartment talking to the kapici or the apartment superintendent answering the telephone and emergencies the learning activities for most modules are objectives vocabulary notes fluency drills dialogues a self-evaluation quiz and review and remediation a cumulative glossary is included after module 12 urkish headstart tur kish headstar t complete course 14 audiocassettes 2 course texts order no ava18387ae00cgi $114 yor uba oruba yor uba basic course produced by the national foreign affairs training center tw i twi basic course produced by the national foreign affairs training center the major language of western africa yoruba is spoken principally in nigeria the yoruba basic course is divided into a number of parts first there are three series of tone drills that concentrate respectively on the tone patterns of short vowels in short utterances the tone patterns of long or double vowels in short utterances and the tone patterns of longer utterances following the tone drills is a series of 49 lesson units of these the first 20 introduce and drill those aspects of the grammar that involve changes in tone and vowel length notes and exercises accompany each unit a series of sentences in the style of a phrase book follows the lesson units many of the units include dialogues notes exercises and supplemental material oruba yor uba basic course 36 audiocassettes order no av008739ae00cgi with text $360 order no av004135ae00cgi without text $300 order no ava20642bb00cgi text only $70 approximately 6 million west africans principally those living in southern ghana speak twi since it is a tone language and each syllable in a word has its own tone or pitch the audiocassettes are an indispensable aid in learning the language the twi basic course http www.ntis.gov/nac to order call 1-800-553-ntis or 703 605-6000 19

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