WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040143-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 143
• Publication Date: March 25, 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
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DATE: 25 March 1959
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Nine stude rench Basic PT course spent 16
through 18 March at This was the 20 week mark in their
course. 00, and NEA, helped the
French ape ng mem ers of the omance s a mewise these stu-
dents are even with the Basic FT students at the 10 week mark, but
as a rule they have a slightly better grasp of the French language
than their FT counterparts at this stage of their study.
2. The French Intermediate FT course has invited one French
speaker weekly to discuss problems directly or indirectly connected
with the course. The last three weeks have seen presentations
FE, OCI, and
SR, which all were oun very ene cal by the s u en s.
been most helpful in setting up this program.
3. Russian Workshop terminated 20 March. Six students com-
pleted the fifteen-week course.
1.. Funds have been approved for the retyping and putting in
final form for lithoprinting of the Polish Area Reader, begun a year
and a half ago. There are no area readers for any East European
language except Russian, and our program of materials development
provides for the preparation of several manuals in these tongues.`
5. The German Basic RSW (Full-Time) class began on 23 March
with five students, including one dependent. Another student has
been accepted and will join the class on 30 March.
few days.
6.
7. We are happy to welcome to the French Intermediate
RSW (Full-Time) class. He has been participating actively and, according
to first reports, successfully in several sessions of the class.
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8. The present Japanese (Full-Irime) class (three students)
spent part of last week at accompanied by
FDD was good enoug o arrange for a Japanese-spec ng
couple to accompany the group, but the arrangement fell through at
the last moment when one of the couple's children became ill. FDD
then agreed to allow an older married woman to go along, but that
arrangement also fell through at the last moment when the woman's
husband (non-Agency) refused to allow it.
9. An out-of-schedule Dutch 101 class was begun in the VLTP
on 23 March 1959. The class was started at the request of the
Chief of of WE Division who had an immediate re-
quirement for part-time language training for four of his people.
Since they were unable to attend any classes during the daytime
the Voluntary Program was the best solution.
10. For the first time this trimester (the sixth) the Voluntary
Language Training Program instructors were asked to give a mid-
trimester rating to eacn student, based on the OTR 1 to 5 scale.
The results would seem to indicate that all of the students who
would have received a (1) rating (about 30 to 40) had been advised
to drop or had dropped out of their own accord early in the trimester.
42 students received a (2) rating, 140 received a (3), 77 received
a (4), and 24 students received the higheott rating of (5).
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