Arabic-L:GEN:Critical Language references

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Date: 13 Feb 2001
From: Digitek <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject: Critical Language references

All you really have to do is look at the high funding by DoD for Arabic
language training, translation, and speech recognition.

Try some of the intelligence surevey articles at www.dia.mil  Also the DARPA
TIDES project is focusing on Arabic, as well as Chinese, Korean and a few
other languages.  Try www.darpa.mil.

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Date: 13 Feb 2001
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Critical Language references

Greetings / tahaiya tayyiba wa b3ad...
While I cannot say that any official statement comes to mind about
the criticality of the Arabic language to U.S. security (depending on
who is defining asnd discussing that concept), Arabic is clearly
considered as a major language in U.S. business relationships and
cultural exchanges. (Yaa ghariib, kun adiib...)
My two dirhams' worth. HTH. Khair, in sha' Allah.
Regards from Los Angeles,
cerutiy

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Date: 13 Feb 2001
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Critical Language references

For "Languages on the Critical Condition List," try [eyes only]:
www.dtic.mil/defenselink/pubs/nsepo at ndu.edu   Tel. 703-696-1991;
fax  703-696-5667.
      Best wishes,
                                     Mike Schub

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Date: 13 Feb 2001
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Critical Language references

Azzizi Kaseh,
Maybe, it is about the Arabic language, being one
of the United Nations' official five languages!

What are the other four official languages of the
UN, anyway? I am sure all of our fellow linguists
know the answer. I, for one, am only proud and
happy that Arabic is one of the official languages
of the UN.

Best Regards,
George N. Hallak

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5)
Date: 13 Feb 2001
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Critical Language references

Try also:  nsepo at ndu.edu

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6)
Date: 13 Feb 2001
From: aata at wm.edu
Subject: Critical Language references

I have a little knowledge of this subject,
so I thought I'd at let you know that the CIA is
recruiting for the following languages/regions at the
current time (from their website).

"The following regions/languages are being sought:

African (with knowledge of French, Portuguese, Arabic,
or demonstrated language aptitude)
East Asian/Chinese
East-Central European/Albanian, Romanian, Czech/Slovak,
Hungarian, and a second European language
East Asian/Malaysian
East Asian/Japanese
East Asian/Korean
Latin America/Spanish with Portuguese or French
Western Europe/French, German, or Italian, with second
European language"

The State Department is also keen on hiring Arabic
speakers. (Even my meager knowledge was enough to get
me a government job in Saudi Arabia last year). Some of
the largest American embassies in the world are in Arab
countries. I have no knowledge of any sort of official
list, but in the sense that knowledge of Arabic greatly
increases your chances of employment in the American
intelligence/diplomatic community, I think it would be
fair to say that Arabic is an important language in
terms of security issues.

Jason Fabbricante
American Association of Teachers of Arabic

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