SUMMARY OF EXTERNAL TRAINING FOR FY 1953

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4. S17'~1??'? ~F E~Tr '"'fit RAINTNG FOR FY 1253
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Descriptions
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PROGRAMS DIVISIDN
Accomplishments: FY 19
Seminar: Western Europe and the Reviy Germany
Place: Foreign Service Institute
Time: Every Tuesday evening
This course aims to bring together representatives of
State, MA, and Defense to consider these problems
from four points of view: political, economic, psycho-
logical and military. It opens with consideration of
U.S. objectives in Western Europe, and the reasons for
them. Then it examines the compatibility of our objec-
tives with those of-two principal European countries,
Germany and France. Then comes a detailed analysis of
trends in Western Europe since World War II and their
implications for the next several years. The closing
sessions are devoted to the means-political, economic,
psychological and military--.by which the U.S. plans to
try to achieve its ends.
Special Progr ,gam Central ,a
Description: This Special Program is divided into three parts:
Summer Session, subject, Chinese Central Asia; Fall
Semester, Russian Central Asis; Part One and Spring
Session; Russian Central Asia, Part Two. General scope
includes climate and resources.. agriculture, industry
and communications, administrative structure,, population
distribution, languages and literatures, religion, art,
etc.
Lengths Indicated above. Student may participate in part or
all.
Classes will meet Mondaysp
e nes ays, and iday evenings, beginning 29 June 1953.
Basic Qualifications: Persons concerned with problems related to
these areas.
Quota: Indefinite
Program will probably not be repeated.
Auspices: Contract between
Progr A - (Near East) Description: Program consists of a year=s intensive training in
language and area n the United States, and a further
year of advanced language and area training in the
Near East.
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Frrorram -4 (Continued)
Lengths 2 years full time, beginning 1 January, annually.
Auspices: Department of State.
Places Foreign Service Institute, then one year in area.
Quotas Approximately 6 (FY 53)
Pro,zr 9(a)
Descriptions This program consists of lectures and seminars on the
military, economic and political structure of the
Soviet Union and its European satellites, advanced
Russian language training, field trips and ppecial
projects.
Length: 2 years' full time, beginning about 1 September,
annually.
Auspices: Department of the Army
Quotas 3 per year
Basic Qualifications: Bachelor;s degree or equivalent, competence
to perform graduate studies, and Top Secret clearance;
Demonstrated proficiency in the Russian language.
Program E
Descriptions This program includes two weeks= pre-area briefing
in Washington, eight weeks in the Near-East with
lectures and seminars on the history, geography., geo-
politics, and contemporary problems of the Near East,
and three weeks of field trips to capitol and major
cities of most of the countries in the Near East,
including briefings at U.S. embassies and legations
in the area.
Length: 13 weeks. be~inninF in June_ annually.
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A i
Basic Qualifications: Program intended primarily for analysts,
Grades GS-9 through GS-13, but not limited to them;
Bachelor's degree or equivalent; competence to per-
form graduate studies, and Top Secret clearance.
by cess
Quotas
Places
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Program (3' (Continued)
Quota: 5 (FY 53)
Auspicess Foreign Service Institute
Basic Qualificationss Bachelor degree or equivalent; competence to
perform graduate studies, aptitude for study of
language; Top Secret clearance.
Soviet Imnerialism,g Srecial Program
Description: The Impact of Soviet Imperialism on the Free World
includes a one-week conference on "The Problem of Soviet
Imperialism." American and foreign scholars, as well as
representatives of business and government will parti-
cipate. Courses includes Background and Development of
Soviet Foreign Policy; International Communism and the
Current Policies of the Soviet Union; the Theoretical
Basis of the Communist Struggle for World Power;
Communist Struggle for World Power; Communist Expansionism
Europe; and the Soviet Union and the Middle East.
Places
Times Summer session, June 29 - August 26, 1953
Quotas Indefinite
Personnels 47
Seminar !w Problems Zf- Contemnorarv Africa
Description: Systematic analysis and discussions of problems,
particularly with regard to Africa south of the Sahara
in the hope that it will offer participating government
officials an opportunity to test past analyses and
predictions, and find bases for new perspectives,
Places Foreign Service Institute
Times Weekly on Mondays, 7:30 - 9s30 P.M., April 20 - June 8
Quotas 5
Personnel: 5
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LANGUAGE TRAINING DIVISION
A. Accomplishments: FY 1953
1. Courses offered within the Agency:
a. Basic French: 16 June to 19 December 1952
Duration: 27 weeks
Enrollment: 4 students
30 September 1952 to 6 February 1953
Duration: 19 weeks
Enrollment: 6 students
9 February to 29 May 1953
Duration: 16 weeks
Enrollments. 6 students
TOTAL ENROLLMENT: 16
Basic Spanish: 16 June to 3 October 1952
Duration: 16 weeks
Enrollment: 3 students
22 September 1952 to 6 February 1953
Duration: 20 weeks
Enrollment: 5 students
9 February to 29 May 1953
Durations 16 weeks
Enrollment: 5 students
TOTAL ENROLIMffi s 13
Basic Italian: 10 March to 19 September 1952
Durations 27 weeks
Enrollment: 7 students
22 September 1952 to 6 February 1953
Duration: 20 weeks
Enrollment: 7 students
9 February to 29 May 1953
Duration: 16 weeks
Enrollment: 7 students
TOTAL EIaOLI NT: 21
TOTAL ENROLLMENT IN ROMANCE LANGUAGE COURSES: 50 students
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Basic German: A-3, 16 June 1952 to January 1953
Durations 25 weeks
Enrollment: 9 students
A-4, 22 September 1952 to 30 January 1953
Duration: 16 weeks
Enrollment: 5 students
A-5s 9 February to 29 May 1953
Durations 16 weeks
Enrollment: 7 students
A-6, 1 June to 17 August 1953
Durations 10 weeks
Enrollment: 8 students
Basic
Afrikaans: A-i, 20 October 1952 to 25 March 1953
Duration: 22 weeks
Enrollments 1 student
Basic Dutch: A-1, 7 January to 28 May 1953
Duration: 20 weeks
Enrollment: 4 students
Special
German: 29 September 1952 to 5 February 1953
Duration: 16 weeks
Enrollment: 6 students
German
Readings #1, 9 February to 29 May 1953
Duration: 16 weeks
Enrollment: !t students
#2, 1 June to 17 August 1953
Duration: 10 weeks
Enrollment: 10 students
Intermediate, 15 October 1952 to 9 January
Duration: 12 weeks
Enrollment: 4 students
TOTAL ENROL IN GERMANICS COURSES: 58 students
Basic Russian: I, 23 March to 10 July 1953 (2 sections)
Durations 16 weeks
Enrollments 114 students
TOTAL ENROLLMENT IN RUSSIAN: 14 students
1953
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be Workload, FY 1953: 122 personnel trained in class
c, Estimated workload, F1 1954: 110 personnel
2. For self-study courses
(Length of time varies from 5 hours per week to half-time,
from 2 weeks duration to 6 months duration)
a. Languages and number of personnel trained:
Arabic
4
Chinese
14
Czech
2
Danish
4
Dutch
1.
Finnish
1
French
120
German
104
Hungarian
1
Italian
22
Japanese
21
Korean
3
Malay
5
Polish
4
Portuguese
9
Rumanian
5
Russian
70
Serbo-Croatian
3
Spanish
30
Turkish
6
be workload, FY 19531 132 personnel trained in self-study
c. Estimated workload, FY 1954: 500 personnel
3. For external courses and programs (See attached sheets)
a.--(attached)
be Workload, FY 1953: 471 personnel
externally trained
c. Estimated Workload, FY 1954:,520"personnel to he externally
trained
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B. Objectives: FY 19511-55
1. Courses to be established in FY 1954-55
a. Beginning Chinese (Mandarin). Duration: 30 weeks.
This is a semi-intensive--four classes of one and
one-half hours each per week, plus approximately 12
hours of laboratory drill per week. Phase One (18
weeks) will consist of intensive training in oral
skills, vocabulary, and the analysis of the most
important grammatical constructions. Phase Two (12
weeks) will emphasize the reading and writing of
Chinese. Oral drill and tapes will supplement the
written material. In addition, new grammatical
construction, use of dictionaries, and other mis-
cellaneous matters, will be presented in this
phase. Work load: 6 students*
b. A course in Intermediate Chinese will be introduced
at the completion of the Beginning Chinese course.
Duration: 32 weeks. In this course the emphasis
will be almost entirely upon the written language
with some oral and aural drill. The aim of the
reading course will be to provide recognition of
approximately 1,200 characters. i'ork load: 4-6 students.
c. Polish Reading (16 weeks, 4J hours per week, plus
9 hours of laboratory drill). This course will pro-
vide an introduction to the forms of the written
language and some drill in reading Polish texts of
moderate difficulty. Work load: Approximately
6 students.
d. Basic Spoken Russian (16 weeks, 4J hours per week,
plus 9 hours weekly of laboratory drill). Contingent
upon the entry on duty of a Russian linguist, one or
two sections of Basic Spoken Russian will be given
in FY 1951.-55. Work loads 6-12 students.
2. Other developmental plans and objectives to be accomplished
in FY 1954-55-
a* A proposed project to provide cover for Tibetan refugees
and to afford them the opportunity to engage in a language
and area program (English and the United States) prior to
assignment to other training facilitieso
b. Provision of academic cover for area and language
training abroad.
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INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS
SPECIAL COURSES
(8-week courses are full-time, 5 days per week. 16-week courses are
full-time, 3 days per week.)
SRA (Basic Russian Reading)
Group 18 (26 May 1952 - 18 July 1952)(8 weeks): 4
Group 19 (8 weeks): 4
Group 20 (8 weeks): 8
Group 21 (8 weeks): 7
Group 22 (8 weeks): 11
Under this group, 2 additional persons took Basic Swedish)
Group 23 (8 weeks):
7
Group 24
(8 weeks) :
7
Group 25
(16 weeks):
2
Group 26
(8 weeks):
5
Group 27
(10 weeks):
13
SRS-I (Scientific Russian Reading,I)
Group 2
(16 weeks): 7
Group 3
(16 weeks):. 4
Group 4
(24 weeks): 5
Group 5
(16 weeks): 4
Group 6
(10 weeks): 2
Group 7
(10 weeks): 4
SRS-II (Scientific Russian Reading, II)
Group 1 (16 weeks): 8
Group 2 (16 weeks): 3
Group 3 (16 weeks): .4
Group 4 (16 weeks): 6
Group 5 (16 weeks): 6
Group 6 (16 weeks): 1
SRS (Scientific Russian/Advanced and Spoken)
Group 1 (16 weeks) : 5
Group 2 (16 weeks): 4
p2 LC (Special Russian/Career)
Group 1 (1 year): 4
Group 2 (1 year): 7
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Institute of Languages and Linguistics
Summer 1952
(16 June - 8 August 1952)
1 Intermediate French
1 Intermediate Spanish
1 Intermediate Russian
6 Introductory Russian
1 Basic German
1 Intermediate German
3 Introductory Japanese
SRG (Special Student/General) Course - Summer E52
May 1 - 19 September
9 Introductory Turkish
May 5 - 14 July
3 Special Russian Tutorial
April 25 - 19 August
March 25 - 8 August
1 Czech Tutorial (Introductory)
July 1 - 25 August
1 Russian Tutorial
2 Russian Tutorials
1 Russian Tutorial
1 Slovak Tutorial
August 5 - 25 September
19 May - 10 weeks
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ATTACHMENT 1 (Under A-3)
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Institute of Languages and Linguistics
Fall 1952
22 September - 23 January
1 Introductory Spanish
1 Introductory Classical Arabic
3 Introductory Syrian Arabic
4 Introductory Greek
3 Introductory German
4 Introductory Bulgarian
5 Introductory Rumanian
6 Introductory Serbo
3 Introductory Japanese
12 Introductory Russian
1 Introductory Iraqi Arabic
5 Introductory Polish
5 Introductory French
3 Introductory Korean
1 Introductory Hindi
10 Introductory Chinese
5 Intermediate Russian
1 Intermediate Syrian Arabic
1 Intermediate Turkish
3 Polish Seminar
1 Polish Linguistic
3 Advanced Chinese
1 Advanced Persian
MG (Special Student/General) Course - 1 Dec.-10 Jan
3 Introductory Serbcr-Croat. Tutorial
1 Czech Tutorial (3 months)
3 October - 1 semester
4 Introductory Burmese
13 October -
1 Syrian Arabic (35 hours)
1 Intermediate Turkish (30 hours)
1 Slovak Tutorial
Russian Tutorial
22 September - 2 February
15 September - 29 January
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ATTAC1ll4E T 1 (under A-3
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Institute of Languages and Linguistics
Spring 1953
2 February - 29 May 1953
2 Introductory Polish
1 Introductory German
2 Introductory. Chinese
1 Introductory Serbo
2 Introductory Polish
1 Introductory Rumanian
5 Introductory Russian
1 Introductory French
1 Introductory Syrian Arabic
3 Intermediate Russian
1 Intermediate Arabic
1 Intermediate German
1 Advanced Arabic
1 Advanced German
1 Advanced Chinese
1 Advanced Persian
1 Polish Seminar
3 Introductory Persian Tutorial
1 Scientific Chinese
1 Slovak Tutorial
1 Russian Tutorial
Czech Tutorial
Russian Tutorial
5 February
2 February - 29 May
9 February - 29 May
3March -29
Under Tutorial
Elementary Korean Tutorial (2 weeks)
3 March - 26 June
2 Japanese Tutorial (50 hours)
1 May - 31 July
Basic French (300 hours)
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AT AC er -
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MMMMER
Institute of Languages and Linguistics
11 Ma=rch - 23 May
Russian Tutorial
March 1953
Danish Tutorial (200 hours)
li may - 31 July
Intermediary Swedish - full time
Summer 1953
22 June - 14 August
(Chargeable to FY 53 Budget)
2 Introductory German
1 Introductory Spanish
6 Russian
4 Intermediate Russian
1 Intermediate German
Intermediate Russian Tutorial (10 weeks) 4 people
Basic Hungarian Reading (6 months) 11 May
Int. Inter. Chinese 150 hours (June)
Arabic (17 February - 2 June 5 people
(22 June - 7 September
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ATT a MENT 2 (Under 3-a)
Indonesian: 5 months (20 hours per week) - 2 persons
Chinese: 1 year and 1 summer (20 hours/week) - 1 person
1 year Basic (full-time) - 1 person
Japanese: 1 summer (20 hours/week) - 3 persons
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ATTACHMENT 3 (Under A-3)
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Elementary Russian - 1 semester (2 hours per week)
Intermediate Russian - 1 semester (2 hours per week)
French (Scientific Reading) - 1 semester (2 hours per week)
Intermediate Russian - 1 semester (2 hours per week)
Intermediate Russian - I semester (2 hours per week)
Elementary French - leemester (2 hours per week)
Elementary Russian - 1 semester (2 hours per week)
Elementary Russian -2 semester hours
Elementary Russian - 2 semester hours
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ATTACHMENT 4 (Under 3-a)
STATE DEPARTMENT
FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE
Burmese: 9 months, full-time
1 person
6 hours/week, one year
2 persons
Chinese: 6 months, half-time
4 persons
Chinese
(Map reading): 6 months, 5 hours/week
2 persons
Thai: 9 months, half-time
4 persons
Russian: 6 months, full-time
1 person
Serbo-Croatian: 6 months, full-time
1 person
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ATTACHI1EENT 5 (Under A-3)
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Berlitz School of Languages
NOTE: Each figure represents the number of hours that one
person studied at the school.
Russian
German
60
100
25
60
721
5
130
100
50
40
D'
100
21
Spanish
Arabic
80
60 70
120
60 Italian
3
80
Portuguese 80
80
40 75
40 33
30
i10 Hindustani
Turkish 80
50 Persian
100
156 20
French English
80
20
40
50
0
40
Czech
45
Japanese
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SANZ SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
NOTE: Each figure represents the number of hours that one person
studied at the school.
Spanish Arabic
30 25
Japan ese Vietnamese
30
50
Swedish
Polish
80
50
60
50
x-30
110
100
40
m
Persian
150
Russian
Chinese
60
French
14
80
IU
100
100
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PRIVATE TUTORS
NOTE: Each figure represents the number of hours that
one person studied at the school.
Turkish Rusei
45 80
French
20
120
70
Arabic
60 150
270 IN
300
Persian
Greek
70
100 120
100
_U Gar
345
B i
100
Japanese
70
Italian
45
40
100
00
240
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