Show yanks taught language oi of land where they are stationed it is planned to supply every troop unit with a set of foreign language recordings upon leaving for a destination where a foreign language Is spoken it is estimated that after six or seven hearings ot of the records and a r short hort period of applied study of the references the average soldier 5 should hould have memorized sufficient phrases to provide him with an aff adequate speaking vocabulary for his bis needs ir dr henry lee smith former instructor tor of english at brown university ver sity providence R I 1 L and director of the radio program ram where are you from Is lo in charge he be points out that although the procedure Is based on scientific analysis of principles of phonetics and phonemics it Is not intended as a basic conversational study of the foreign language it was evolved only as an expedient for quickly and easily instructing american troops american troops embarking for a s land where a foreign language Is spoken will be taught an elementary speaking knowledge of that language through a new and simplified me meth th od of instruction featuring the us use of phonograph records it was an bounced by the war department the records are used in conjunct con june tion with reference pamphlets con tabling instructions in and a glossary containing further information on the language langu aee aie |