Top DLIFLC products: Rapport, Headstart2 DVDs, GLOSS and Language Survival Kits.
Please note that hard copy, large quantity, products will be shipped to professional linguists or Command Language Program managers only.
All other users should use on-line or downloadable versions of our products.
Rapport
Rapport is six to eight hours of mandatory language and culture predeployment training for all DoD members in Dari or Pashto, spoken in Afghanistan. Army Soldiers and DA civilians must take Iraqi dialect and culture training before deployment.
Headstart2
Headstart2 currently exists in 12 languages: Dari, Pashto, Iraqi, Chinese Mandarin, Korean, Persian Farsi, French, Russian, Spanish, Urdu, Uzbek, German and European Portuguese.
Headstart2 is required training for one small unit leader per platoon prior to deployment and includes:
- Self-study, DVD-based and online course
- Approximately 80 to 100- hours of instruction
- Each task includes assessments and retraining if needed
- Cultural familiarization and orientation modules
- Language-specific pronunciation guide
- 750 avatar-based drills
- 70 printable PDFs
- 300 interactive tasks
- 200 assessment items
- Sound recorder
Language Survival Kits (LSK)
LSKs are designed as pocket-sized, quick reference booklets with an audio CD available in 10 different topics per language for deploying service members. The LSKs contain mission-specific vocabulary and simple phrases in topics such as medical terminology, Civil Affairs, Force Protection, and Military Police. LSKs are currently offered in 62 languages: Albanian, Amharic, Azeri, Bengali, Burmese, Cantonese, Cebuano, Spanish, Dari, Egyptian, Emirati, French, Gan, Gujarati, Haitian, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Ilocano, Indonesian (Bahasa), Iraqi, Javanese, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean (North and South), Kurmanji, Libyan, Lingala, Malay, Mandarin, Moroccan, Nepali, Pashto (Afghanistan), Pashto (Pakistan), Persian Farsi, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Saudi, Serbian, Sindhi, Somali, Sorani, Sudanese, Swahili, Syrian, Tagalog, Tausug, Thai, Tigrinya, Tunisian, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Wu, Yakan, Yemeni, and Yoruba.
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