WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040180-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 180
• Publication Date: January 22, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy for Language Training
suBJEcT: Weekly Activities Report
DATE:22 January 1959
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Members of the Slavic department have begun the work of
improving and revising the text for the Russian Basic RSW (FT) course.
In addition to adding a variety of drills, parts of the text will be
revised through the removal of certain materials and the addition of
others.
2. Czech Basic RSW (FT) ended on 16 January. The students will
continue in a special Intermediate phase, principally with the instructor
provided by the Czech desk, until 6 March, dividing their time between
LAS and FSI.
3. The School's first full-time Greek course began 19 January with /7
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ents and dent. Tain oourse, emphasizing spoken
Greek, will be taught by der (supervision. It is sched-
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to t ays, but may have to be extended beyond that.
is assuming his Japanese-teaching duties while he is gone.
5. Intermediate and advanced language training materials in the
form of tape recordings taken from Berlin Radio and lists of available
movies have been received from EE Division. These materials are most
welcome in view of the increasing interest in more advanced German train-
ing and our efforts to improve our tape holdings at the upper levels.
We are listening to the tapes and will attempt to establish a continuing
arrangement for obtaining such materials from the field.
5. The following is the enrollment in the spring term courses of
the Department of Slavic and East European languages:
Czech Basic RSW (FT) 2
Hungarian Basic Reading (II) 6
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Now,
Russian Basic Reading (Special for ORR)
16
Russian Basic RSW
10
Russian Basic Reading (II)
18
Russian Intermediate Reading -
Economic (II)
Russian Intermedia
Scientific (II)
te Reading -
7
Russian Intermedia
te RSW (II)
10
Russian Familiari
zation
17
Advanced Russian
Workshop
99
The total noted above is approximately equal to that of the fall
term. New enrollments offset the withdrawals.
COIFI E TIA!
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