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| ralen_jor Newbie United States Joined 6035 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 33 of 35 26 October 2011 at 4:43pm | IP Logged |
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Zwlth, I'm interested to hear where you got your information regarding DLI using purely
commercial material now. I attended the Arabic course from 2007 to 2009 and everything we used was a curriculum that DLI produced and started using in early 2007. Never once did we use Pimsleur, al-Kitaab, or anything like that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| pfn123 Senior Member Australia Joined 5088 days ago 171 posts - 291 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 34 of 35 27 October 2011 at 1:31pm | IP Logged |
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Australia has a Defence Language School, located at the Royal Australian Air Force Base outside Melbourne (RAAF Base Willams). I read they recently got extra funding too. It's used by all branches of the Australian Defence Force, as well as other government entities (Depertment of Foreign Affiars and Trade, Austrlian Federal Police, etc.)
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| SaYwHt2 Triglot Newbie Belgium Joined 5603 days ago 9 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English, German, French Studies: Italian, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Croatian, Slovenian | Message 35 of 35 27 October 2011 at 4:36pm | IP Logged |
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Hi all,
Thought I would add a slightly different perspective to this conversation! I work at the European Parliament in Brussels and, as you can imagine, there is a huge demand for language learning courses here from MEPs and employees of the parliament itself. Most of the teaching is done in house and languages offered include all EU offical languages. I have also seen Mandarin and Russian offered in great numbers as well. The biggest demand of course is to learn English or French and they regularly offer intensive summer courses. These courses are aimed at people not in a hurry though and I am pretty sure that they also use lots of the private schools around the city. I think the one they put all of the top officials and diplomats on is called the European or Europa language school or something like that. But yes, as far as I know, they aren't producing their own materials or anything like that. It could be rather interesting to have EU produced materials, but I imagine that would cost a fortune and would be a nightmare for the auditors! Edited by SaYwHt2 on 27 October 2011 at 4:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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