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LANGUAGE STUDIES

FOR BRITISH SERVICE MEN. USE OF GRAMOPHONE RECORDS. British soldiers, sailors and airmen are learning to speak Chinese—by gramophone. A big demand has grown up in the last few months for gramophone language courses, not only in Chinese but also in Russian. In many parts of the country men in the Services have formed study groups to help them to learn French and German as well as Russian and Chinese. Policemen in Britain are forming groups to give themselves a knowledge of German and Russian. Home Guards are also occupying their spare time in picking up German at their guard posts. . The Friends’ Ambulance Unit which worked on the Burma Road has had courses in Chinese. Courses in Spanish have been sent out to U.S.A, for the American Air Force, and other U.S. Forces are learning Russian. A gramophone course in English is popular with sailors in the Norwegian and Dutch Merchant Services; and French Canadian soldiers are also using the gramophone record system. The Free Services of France, Norway, Czechoslovakia’, Poland and Holland are about to learn to speak English in a gramophone course which is being recorded with the aid of 8.8. C. announcers.

Nine out of ten of the language courses now being produced in Britain are going to the Services. The chief demand is for Russian, Chinese and German, although courses in Arabic, Hindustani and Japanese have been taken UR; by certain Service personnel.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420704.2.44

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1942, Page 4

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LANGUAGE STUDIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1942, Page 4

LANGUAGE STUDIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1942, Page 4

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