DLIFLC

Language Materials Distribution System (LMDS)

Dear Customers,

Our Language Materials Distribution System (LMDS) is currently undergoing a comprehensive redesign to better meet the needs of our users and to simplify the distribution of products.

To streamline your ordering process, please review currently available products.

Please note that some of our language and culture materials may be available for immediate download on the DLIFLC's Field Support Website .

To order any of the listed products, please utilize the email form below. When ordering you must include the following details - Language, Quantity and modality if ordering LSKs - or your request will be delayed.

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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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