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'The need grows for qualified linguists of many languages. The
Army is keeping step with that need by providing these linguists.
Film shows steps in training, sources of both teachers and students, and visits the classrooms of the school located at
Monterey, California.'
"
The Big Picture" episode TV-200
The Big Picture
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Public domain film from the
US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Language_Institute
The Defense Language Institute (
DLI) is a
United States Department of Defense (DoD) educational and research institution, which provides linguistic and cultural instruction to the
Department of Defense, other
Federal Agencies and numerous customers around the world. The Defense Language Institute is responsible for the
Defense Language
Program, and the bulk of the
Defense Language Institute's activities involve educating DoD members in assigned languages, and international personnel in
English...
History
The Defense Language Institute
Foreign Language Center (
DLIFLC) traces its roots to the eve of
America’s entry into
World War II, when the
U.S. Army established a secret school at the
Presidio of San Francisco to teach the
Japanese language.
Classes began
1 November 1941, with four instructors and 60 students in an abandoned airplane hangar at
Crissy Field. The students were primarily second generation
Japanese Americans (Nisei) from the
West Coast, who had learned
Japanese from their first-generation parents but were educated in the US and whose Japanese was somewhat limited, the "Kibei," Japanese-Americans who had been educated in
Japan and spoke Japanese like the Japanese themselves, along with two
Caucasian students, the only
US military personnel who had any useful command of the Japanese language at the beginning of
WWII. Nisei
Hall, along with several other buildings, is named in honor of these earliest students, who are honored in the Institute’s
Yankee Samurai exhibit.
During the war, the
Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS), as it came to be called, grew dramatically. When Japanese-Americans on the West Coast were moved into internment camps in
1942, the school moved to temporary quarters at
Camp Savage,
Minnesota. By
1944 the school had outgrown these facilities and moved to nearby
Fort Snelling. More than 6,
000 graduates served throughout the
Pacific Theater during the war and the subsequent occupation of Japan.
In 1946 the school moved to the
Presidio of Monterey, the renamed
Army Language School expanded rapidly in
1947–48 during the
Cold War. Instructors, including native speakers of more than thirty languages and dialects, were recruited from all over the world.
Russian became the largest language program, followed by
Chinese, Korean, and
German...
Cold War language instruction
The U.S. Air Force met most of its foreign language training requirements in the
1950s through contract programs at universities such as
Yale,
Cornell,
Indiana, and
Syracuse and the
U.S. Navy taught foreign languages at the
Naval Intelligence School in
Washington, D.C., but in
1963 these programs were consolidated into the Defense Foreign Language Program. A new headquarters, the Defense Language Institute (DLI), was established in Washington, D.C.
.. The Army Language School became the DLI West Coast
Branch, and the foreign language department at the Naval Intelligence School became the DLI
East Coast Branch. The contract programs were gradually phased out. The DLI also took over the
English Language School at
Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, which became the DLI English Language Center (
DLIELC).
During the peak of
American involvement in
Vietnam (
1965–73), the DLI stepped up the pace of language training. While regular language training continued unabated, more than 20,000 service personnel studied
Vietnamese through the DLI’s programs, many taking a special eight-week military adviser “survival” course... Vietnamese instruction continued at DLI until 2004.
Consolidation
In the
1970s the institute’s headquarters and all resident language training were consolidated at the West Coast Branch and renamed the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC). In
1973, the newly formed U.S. Army
Training and Doctrine Command (
TRADOC) assumed administrative control, and in
1976, all
English language training operations were returned to the
U.S. Air Force, which operates DLIELC to this day...
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