Welcome to fsi-language-courses.org - the home for language
courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute.
These courses were developed by the United States
government and are in the public domain.
This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely
available in an electronic format. This site is
not affiliated in any way with any government entity; it is an
independent, non-profit effort to foster the learning of worldwide
languages. Courses here are made available through the private
efforts of individuals who are donating their time and resources to
provide quality materials for language learning.
You can find Defense
Language Institut and Foreign Language Institut archives and
various material
And here, material for the Peace Corps: Peace Corps material
News
September the 7th, 2016
Hi everyone,
Some big news:
The Cortina language materials (Russian and
Japanese) have been made available on this Website by the kind
permission of the holder of the copyright, Magdalen Livesey, the
President of Cortina International, Inc.
Thanks a lot to: Magdalen Livesey (President, Cortina
Learning International, Inc.), SpeakEasy (Michael), jpazzz,
daristani who worked hard to make this possible.
Here are the link to the page of the Cortina Japanese
course and to the page of the Cortina Russian course
- The actual Website is getting old; I made a new one (not
finished, but quite advanced); it is available here: The new FSI-language Werbsite.
The old site will not be maintained any more .. too much work to keep the 2 sites up to date
There is still a lot of work to do. The FSI part is quite
finished; I need to write some more introductory texts, but my
writing, skills are not very high :(:( .
This new Website may be a bit slow: it's actually on my
home server (with an ADSL line ...). I'll put it on the main
server as soon I get more work done.
What is needed is to sort all the DLI material to make it
comprehensible. There are tons of different sources (for example,
Russian has material from the Air Force as well as the classical
DLI material.)
The new git repository:
I managed to put online a git repository for all language
related works. Everyone can register and use it. You don't need
to register in order to get the public material. It's based on a
Gitlab instance.) To explore, just use the "explore" button at
the bottom at the page.
The url is: The Yojik Gitlab
git repository
- The Yojik Website is available in secure (https) mode.
Thanks to Letsencrypt free certificates.
- I forgot a long time ago tu put the Persian audio files
... sorry ... and thanks to SpeakEasy who got them for us.
News
December the 5th, 2015
The Headstart updated German books (better scanned) are
online and replace the older ones.
The old versions of the books are still available on the same
page.
Thanks to "SpeakEasy" Michael
News
June the 7th, 2015
The Chinyanja audio was missing; now, it's on line.
Thanks to Helen Abadzi.
News
May the 28th, 2015
New FSI Bengali "short" course.The audio files need some
cleaning, renaming. I'll do it when I get some free time ...
New Nepali FSI audio; no text book, sorry
Helen sent to me also 3 Peace Corps material
This material is available on: Peace Corps material
Thanks to Helen Abadzi.
News
May the 25th, 2015
New audio for FSI Polish
Thanks to SpeakEasy
News
April the 4th, 2015
New Fula and Tagalog Basic material (text and audio)
integrated in the website
Thanks to Ray from livelingua (Fula material) and Peter
Beischmidt (Tagalog material)
News
March the 30th, 2015
New Lao Basic material (text and audio) integrated in the
website
Ashby provided some additional material, and I'll check if
it's possible to share it ...
Thanks to Ashby Anernbull
News
March the 19th, 2015
New Amharic material integrated in the website
Thanks to DemiPuppet
I also add the Amharic and Igbo original material found on
the Indiana University.
News
February 22, 2015
New Moré material integrated in the website
Thanks to DemiPuppet
News
January 26, 2015
Kirundi, Swahili and French Sub-Saharan material integrated
in the website
Thanks to DemiPuppet
News
January 26, 2015
Serbo-Croate material integrated in the website
Thanks to DemiPuppet
News
January 25, 2015
Cecil John reported some wrong links in the Chinese FSI
Course: corrected
Duncan Salter reported some wrong links in the FSI Saudi
Arabic Course, and provide new materials which was missing: FSI
Written Arabic, audio for Volume 1: corrected and added
Demi Puppet brougt new material for various languages; I'll
get and integrate them as soon as possible.
I also added material from the Peace Corps. This would not be
possible without the work of Ray Blakney. Check his website: Livelingua
Big thanks !
PS: as for today, the original website fsi-language.org is
down .... so, please, make copies of my website to preserve all
this material.
News
January 4, 2015
Swahili Basic course updated: page 155 (missing) added, and
audio lesson 29 updated.
Big thanks to Bob Beretta for the updates.
News
August 21, 2014
Found the 2 missing audio lessons of Korean headstart: added
News
May 23, 2013
Spoken Persian added in the "General" section
News and Corrections
May 16, 2013
Corrections in the French section.
Some good news: the old website is online again.
New material and corrections
April 5, 2013
Corrections and external material: correction of bad links in
the French section and Finnish reader book added (it's not
available anymore on "eric" website )
New material and corrections
April 2, 2013
Corrections and external material: I added Hausa external
link to audio material, and corrected French Basic audio links as
well as Korean Basic audio links.
New material
April 1, 2013
New material uploaded:
- Czech Basic Manual
- Czech Verbs
New site
March 18, 2013
The new site is complete with everything I could gaver. You have
another website fsi.antibozo.net
with the content of the archiv we found, improved by material from
Jennifer Wagner of ielanguages.com:
for downloading the whole archive, please, use this torrent:
Whole
archiv torrent on legitorrents
Again, I want to thank all people who made this possible.
The next step will be to clean the pages (like splitting the
long pages) ,choose some others colours ;), reorganize the tables
of links and make some improvements to the global site, and if
possible, find the missing material.
I'll also compare the material here with all the material gavered
and the one on fsi.antibozo.net
and update if necesserary.
Feel free to send comments
cwb323 sent to me an archiv file with the content of the old
FSI-languages forum: Old
FSI-languages forum
UPDATE:cwb323 sent to me what he got from the new
forum on FSI-languages: here is the link: New
FSI-languages forum
New site
March 4, 2013
Here is the new website dedicated to FSI Languages Courses.
The original site is down for more than one month now. Members and
I managed to collect the available material
I found an archiv of the original site. I made a new website
with all the material found there and the one collected.
I wanted to thank all members who uploaded material and send
encouragements.
Missing data
March 4, 2013
Here are the missing data .... the archiv was created in
2011.
Catching up
January 16, 2011
The following texts have been posted over the months since
this page's last update:
- FSI - Adapting and Writing Language Lessons
- FSI - Portuguese Programmatic Course - Volume 1 (Full
Text)
- FSI - Portuguese Programmatic Course - Volume 2 (Full
Text)
- FSI - Spanish FAST
- FSI - Swahili An Active Introduction - General
Conversation
- FSI - Swahili An Active Introduction - Geography
- FSI - Vietnamese Familiarization Course
- FSI - Kirundi Basic Course
- FSI - Brazilian Portuguese FAST
- FSI - French Bridges
- DLI - Korean Headstart
- FSI - Polish FAST
Also, the audio for the first 32 lessons of French
Sub-Saharan FAST, as well as both the text and audio for German
FAST, have been posted.
Many thanks to Oberon for all the above, as well as Martin
Styles for the updated audio for Italian FAST.
Various Updates
April 16, 2010
There have been several updates over the last few months.
They include:
- Audio for (first 12 tapes)
- Audio (and text updates) for
More coming soon.
New Material
January 29, 2010
is now
available as well as the text for .
New Material
November 12, 2009
The texts for the and
Headstart courses are now available. has
also been added.
New Text
September 12, 2009
The text for Bulgarian Basic, Volume 2 is now
available. Also, the bookmarks in Volume 1 have been
updated. Many thanks to Oberon!
WARNING!
August 23, 2009
Last week, it was discovered that the forum located at the
original site was generating a script that creates a hidden frame
which contains a link to a known malware site. That
forum has since been shutdown.
However, the same script has recently been detected in other areas
of that site. You should not visit the
original site unless you have disabled javascript (or just use the
noscript plugin on Firefox).
New Forum
August 23, 2009
This site's forum
is now open. Please read the guidelines
before posting.
UPDATE of 21/03/2013 the website and the forum are
down.
New Audio
July 27, 2009
DemiPuppet has provided the following audio:
- French Headstart for Belgium
- German Headstart
- Italian Headstart
Updated Audio
June 23, 2009
MartinS has provided better quality audio files for the Korean
Basic Course. See the Revision
Notes for more details.
He's also provided a cleaned up version of Tape
9.1 of the German Basic Course.
And last, but not least, DemiPuppet has provided audio for
Volume 2 of the Spanish Basic Course!
New Material
May 27, 2009
DemiPuppet has provided the following material:
- Italian FAST - Text and Audio
- Lingala Basic Course - Audio
- Headstart for Latin America (Spanish) - Text and Audio
Updated Audio
April 26, 2009
Audio for the French Basic Course (Units 1-18) has been
updated with a new, improved version. Thanks, once
again, to DemiPuppet!
New Material
April 24, 2009
Audio for Bulgarian Volume 2 and the Shona Basic Course is
now available. Thanks, as always, to DemiPuppet!
Bulgarian Audio Added
March 12, 2009
Audio files (once again provided by DemiPuppet) have been
posted for Volume 1 of the Bulgarian Basic Course. An
updated text is also posted.
Improved Audio
February 21, 2009
DemiPuppet has provided higher quality audio for the
Cantonese Basic Course - Volume 1.
New Audio
January 31, 2009
Audio for the Yoruba Basic Course is now available, thanks to
onebir!
New Material
January 17, 2009
Posted the texts for Modern Written Arabic Volume 3 and
Serbo-Croatian Basic Volume 2. Thanks once again to DemiPuppet!
Also posted the audio for Serbo-Croatian Volume 1. Thanks to
liddytime!
Uploaded more OCRed files from DemiPuppet. They are:
- FSI - From Spanish to Portuguese - Student Text
- FSI - Luganda Basic Course - Instructor and Student Text
- FSI - Serbo-Croatian Basic Course - Volume 1 - Student
Text
- FSI - Swedish Basic Course - Student Text
Odds and Ends
January14, 2009
Uploaded new OCRed files from DemiPuppet. They are:
- German Basic Course - Volume 1 - Student Text
- German Basic Course - Volume 2 - Student Text
- Le Monde Francophone - Student Text
- Spanish Basic Course - Volume 1 - Student Text
- Spanish Basic Course - Volume 2 - Student Text
- Spanish Programmatic Course - Volume 1 - Instructor Manual
- Spanish Programmatic Course - Volume 1 - Student Text
- Spanish Programmatic Course - Volume 1 - Workbook
- Spanish Programmatic Course - Volume 2 - Instructor Manual
- Spanish Programmatic Course - Volume 2 - Workbook
Also, added the text for Serbo-Croatian Basic - Volume
One. More material coming soon.
New Look
January 3, 2009
Decided to change the look of the site to a more
"FSI" feel. Hopefully, I haven't gone too far with it.
Also, updated the Spanish To Portuguese audio, fixed a broken
link (German Programmatic Introduction Unit 10 Tape 2), and began
linking to some off-site material. Still working on the forum.
Updated Texts
December 31, 2008
Decided to change the look of the site to a more
"FSI" feel. Hopefully, I haven't gone too far with it.
Also, updated the Spanish To Portuguese audio, fixed a broken
link (German Programmatic Introduction Unit 10 Tape 2), and began
linking to some off-site material. Still working on the forum.
Updated Texts
December 31, 2008
DemiPuppet has kindly provided OCRed versions of the Finnish,
French, Greek, and Hungarian texts.
