Speakeasy wrote:And I thought that I was a pack rat!!!n_j_f wrote: ... Spoken Language Services ... Indonesian course ... their last catalogue before disappearing seems to have deleted this ...
I must admit, I had to look up "pack rat" which describes me perfectly!
Speakeasy wrote:I agree with Daristani. I ordered "Spoken Polish" from Spoken Language Services and it turned out to be an exact copy of "Beginning Polish" by Alexander Schenker. It is quite possible that Spoken Language Services’ listing of "Spoken Indonesian" was actually a copy of a course that was not part of the original series which was published during the Second World War under the auspices of the USAFI (United States Armed Forces Institute) for which Spoken Language Services claimed to hold the copyright.Daristani wrote:J ... I don't think we can be certain that the mere inclusion of a course in the Spoken Language Services' list of offerings necessarily means that they actually ever marketed it. I say this because ...
The SLS website did state that they had filled out their catalogue with some FSI courses as well. Spoken Persian at least is an FSI course and I believe Spoken Sinhala and either Spoken Norwegian or Spoken Swedish (or perhaps both) had their origins elsewhere.