The Yojik Website
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Welcome to the Yojik Website
This site is dedicated to language learners. You will find<br>here the FSI, DLI and Peace-Corps courses. I wrote some tutorials<br>to help learners to import vocabulary lists, to digitalize<br>documents into modifiable content, to record lists of<br>words/phrases. I rebuilt the defunt Shtooka website, so the<br>content is not lost. A copy of the shtooka collections and<br>programs is also kept here.
The FSI and the Peace-Corps parts are finished, and DLI is<br>on the way, other parts too. Don't forget to report bad links.<br>Thank you.
The translation of the site in French, Russian and German is<br>on the way. French is pretty advanced. Translation of the first<br>page in German done (thanks yabbes!)
The pages in other languages are not in sync ... sorry
The Old<br>fsi-language Website " (NOT maintained any more ...)
New! Update (29th of October 2018) 7 new Cortina<br>languages courses!
French, German, Greek, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese,<br>Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Vietnamese
A correspondant re-recorded (professional recording)the 12<br>last lessons of Cortina-Russian.
Go to the correspondant section to grab them.
See the Cortina section :)
New! Helen Abadzi section<br>(10th of May<br>2020)
Helen sent me a lot of rare resources, she collected along the years. May be some copyrights infringements but the documents are old, the authors are dead.
If there is a problem, my email is available in the contact section. I'll erase the corresponding documents.
Thanks a lot!
Public Domain Courses and Other Resources.
FSI Courses
The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) is the United States<br>federal government's primary training institution for employees of<br>the U.S. foreign affairs community, preparing American diplomats as<br>well as other professionals to advance U.S. foreign affairs<br>interests overseas and in Washington.
- excerpt from Wikipedia
The courses available here are "old" courses. Cross the<br>informations here with more recent sources as the vocabulary may<br>have changed.
The<br>FSI courses "
DLI Courses
The Defense Language Institute (DLI) is a United States<br>Department of Defense (DoD) educational and research institution,<br>which provides linguistic and cultural instruction to the<br>Department of Defense, other Federal Agencies and numerous<br>customers around the world. ... Other functions include planning,<br>curriculum development, and research in second-language<br>acquisition.
- excerpt from Wikipedia
The courses available here are "old" courses. Cross the<br>informations here with more recent sources as the vocabulary may<br>have changed.
The<br>DLI courses "
Peace-Corps Courses
The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United<br>States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes<br>providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United<br>States to understand American culture, and helping Americans to<br>understand the cultures of other countries.
- excerpt from Wikipedia
These courses are mostly developed by volunteers and are<br>available for a large set of languages with some very rare ones .
The Peace-Corps courses "
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Shtooka Old Website
Shtooka was a project launched in 2006/2007 aimed to record<br>and tag lists of vocabulary in different languages
These lists are compiled into "collections" in various audio<br>format such ogg, flac, mp3 speex.
Technical information about the recording, linguistic<br>information, copyrights are kept in tags embedded in the audio<br>file. Search for swac tags in this page to get more information
The original web site was down for a very long moment, so I built a<br>copy with the help from the Internet Archives. The new Shtooka web<br>site maintained by Nicolas Vion is here The new Shtooka Website "
The old Shtooka Website "
Audio Collections
The audio collections are collections of audio files of lists<br>of vocabulary/phrases properly tagged
You'll find them in different audio format
Collections in Arabic, Belarussian, Czech, Chinese/Mandarin,<br>German, English, Italian, French, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese,<br>Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Serbian, Ukrainian, Wolof,<br>Wuu/Shanghainese are available here.
You may download file by file, or an entire collection at<br>once.
Audio<br>collections "
Programs recording, training
Here are some programs built to manage, browse the Shtooka<br>collections. Some of them are quite old (like mine written in<br>Python), some were written at the beginning of the project
Be aware that the database format used by the swac* programs<br>changed and some old programs cannot run with this new format.
New programs which use the new database format were written<br>by Nicolas Vion, but are only available as "source". I'll try to<br>compile them for different platforms as soon as I get some free<br>time ... yes ... an eternal problem
Programs "
Tutorials digitalizing<br>etc ...
The tutorial section will be devoted to various domains such<br>digitizing...