Arabic-L:PEDA:2-3 week refresher course responses

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1)
Date:  22 May 2002
From:Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject:2-3 week refresher course response

I understand that Professor Hillman is in charge of a three-week course
in Arabic (and one in Persian, too) in Austin, Texas this June.  Contact
him at Middle East Center, University of Texas, Austin.

Ernest McCarus

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2)
Date:  22 May 2002
From:Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject:2-3 week refresher course response

You might contact the people at Exotic Languages Agency (ELA) in Orange,
California. Background and contact data about ELA are below.

While colleges and universities are attractive options, their POI and
scheduling may be hard to adjust to your soldier-linguists' METL, tasks
and
needs for MOSQ relevance, plus complicate their balancing their scheduled
summer-session classes with available faculty. Some academic
institutions in
CONUS and OCONUS present issues and considerations of public visibility /
OPSEC / force protection.

You might contact the people at Exotic Languages Agency (ELA) in Orange,
California. The ELA has provided / is providing some mission-focussed
total
immersion  language, cultural (and language-dependent operational)
training
for DOD military linguists, including some from several CONUS units.
Details
are in my separate e-mail to your < army.mil > address as back-up e-mail.

All graduates score well on post-course DLPTs or OPIs after they return
to
their home stations.

Soldier-linguists in all MOS and CMFs can benefit by sharpening their
global
proficiencies;  the emphasis of POI content is usually heavy on the side
of
general linguists, foreign liaison, attaches and field operators.

The ELA offers courses that can run 2 wks, 4 wks or longer. Your
linguists
can go there TDY to southern California (maximizes the immersion in
replicated authentic cultures if desired), or ELA can dispatch
instructors
for on-post/controlled-access on-site training.

ELA provides graduates with transcripts and breakouts of hours of
completed
formal instruction so that the linguists can apply for academic credit
via
on-post education services center.

BTW, which dialect of AD is of interest? ELA usually can cover any of
them.
ELA covers 200+ languages, dialects and cultures.

FYI, ELA recently increased the number of supported languages incidental
to
Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, including SWA / Eurasia, the Middle East,
Africa
and Pacific. ELA enjoys some unique and extensive ties to qualified
instructors in many ethnic communities in Caliiornia and elsewhere in
CONUS.

ELA accepts payment by USG credit charge cards, since course costs are
usually within that range.

Contact data for ELA:

Tel: 1.800.303.7200 or 714.704.1874

Fax: 1.714.704.1870

e-mail: ela at ela1.com

Ask them to e-mail the special pages on ELA's "Languages and Area Studies
Immersion" (LASI) training program.

website:  http://www.ela1.com >

HTH. Good luck. I am advisor to ELA on USG and DoD matters and am very
familiar with the benefits and suitability of ELA's LASI to military
linguists. If your unit schedules LASI sessions at ELA, I would be in
direct
support / backstop / "bounding overwatch" / QA.

All best regards,
Stephen H. Franke

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3)
Date:  22 May 2002
From:nagwa hedayet <nhedayet at yahoo.com>
Subject:2-3 week refresher course response

Salam to you all,
Hope you are all fine. Please be informed that Hedayet
Institute for Arabic Studies(HIAS) in Cairo has a web
site now that you may have a look at.We also tailor
short courses if we are contacted enough time before
hand. It is : www.arabicstudieshedayet.com  I wish you
all a wonderful summer.
Nagwa Hedayet
HIAS Director

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4)
Date:  22 May 2002
From:Sanaa Ghanem <sanaa at arabacademy.com>
Subject:2-3 week refresher course response

The Arab Academy offers online Arabic language courses for all language
levels, that would make excellent 'refresher and language maintenance
courses' for your linguists.  The courses are self paced and could be
adjusted to the time frame of students.
For more information on the courses available visit:
http://www.arabacademy.com/main/online/registrar_e.shtml

Sanaa Ghanem
Arab Academy
http://www.arabacademy.com

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