[Argentina] Field Operative Language Skill Program

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LANGUAGE SKILLS PROGRAM​ Classified Information ​

Operation Background

As part of the a new internal and external security directive, the Argentine Government has instructed to begin training a new elite group of intelligence agents from a very early in the career, to be able to excel in field operations within Argentine and on foreign soil. As first part, the selected agents would undergo a special language training where they would improve their foreign language skills, focusing not only on grammar and phonetic, but also on idioms and cultural references. The idea of the program is to help the operatives to work undetectable from local population.

Deployed Forces

20 specially selected operatives form the Federal Intelligence Agency: Leonardo Calvacanti Fabricio Picolotti Maria Paula Cantabria Alvaro Miguel Robledo Susana Eva Diaz Velez Esteban Gonzalez Julia Ischia Jose Pablo Verga Roman Martinez Anahí Estevanez Raul Hoff Santiago Williams Maia Laura Lousteau Gonzalo Albacete Matias Pablo Tortoni Javier Hohenzoller Saul Menem Corina Rubin Pablo Inzaghi Guillermo Koutugian

Logistical Details

All classes would be dictated in one of the restricted and private FIA agencies in the vicinity of the City of Buenos Aires, by specially selected instructors and native speakers, all with security clearance and of argentine citizenship. The names of the operatives would not be known to the instructors, who would work with the agents only through aliases. No public information would be given about this Program and its participants. Details would all be highly classified.

 

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All selected 20 agents would already have an advanced understanding of the english language, to the level of being able to carry out complex conversations without much effort. This first part of the Program would focus on improving this english skills in order to eradicate accents and other imperfections that could affect the execution of their missions on the field.

Special phonetic instructors and linguists would be hired and they would work for weeks with personalized programs for each of the 20 agents, working on each of their particularities.

Erasing accents and other imperfections is not an easy task, so it would take a good amount of time.

New vocabulary and idioms would be taught to the agents, as well as worked on specific english accents and vocabulary such as british and american english.

British-english native speakers of argentine citizenship would be used for this task together with US-english counterpart.

 

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The accent reduction program would start with a speech assessment to determine a student’s unique needs. Speech production is a very complicated process involving coordinating movements of the lips, tongue, jaw, vocal cords, and respiratory system.

Areas of focus include teaching students clear articulation of vowels and consonants as well as the intonation patterns that are unique to each language. The learning sequence is broken down into progressive learning segments until they cumulate into using the newly learned skills in conversation. It will also include linking, rate, or voice projection. The instructor-led accent training includes conversational practice to help the student transfer these newly learned skills into everyday conversations.

This would all be reinforced with outside practice time, as it is essential for the participant to see significant changes in their speech.

The course would also focus on teaching students how to pronounce difficult sounds such as /θ/, /ð/, /ɹ/, /l/, and /w/; intonation, stress, and rhythm.Vowel sounds are also covered in this accent reduction training. Practicing of the vowel /ɪ/ most commonly spelled "i" is done by reciting a few of the following differences: his versus is, hit versus it, hill versus ill.

 

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The programm would continue with the continuation of the accent-elimination intensive course. Agents would continue practicing intensively with native speakers and special material tosharpen their skill as much as possible, both in american as well as in british english, for in the end being abel to switch between them as needed.

Movies, TV series, radio and recordings would be used to support all this.

Custom made exercises and units would be made by the expert linguists and instructors. Special vocabulary and slang would also be learned. Non-idiomatic and body language and gestures would also be learned in roder to make the spoken part even more realistic.

All this would be carried out in secrecy, with the agents spending most of their days within the comound.

 

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The training would persist, considering how difficult and time demanding the current goal of getting rid of possible accents that could give away a cover in a abroad assignment.

Arrangements would be made for the agents to attend different seminars and courses in foreign english speaking nations, in order to practice their skills even more and put them in use to see if they are already signs of success.

The agents would also continue learning specific, region-based slangs and accents, in order to have a better variety or resosurces at their disposal.

All this would be carried out in secrecy, with no possible way for outsiders to know the real activities and objectives of the agents.

 

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With the training advancing, the agents would begin focusing now on more purely practical exercises and training drills. They would attend expat meetings with fake identities and try to blend themselves in by establishing new relationships with foreigners. They would use this to practice different accents (varying from meeting to meeting, paying attention not to blow their cover if they see the same people attending different events) and also as a general information collection training.

They would make emphasis in creating a real background story and adapting their way of talking to it in order to sound as credible as possible.

 

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After a long time with the program active, the agents would have managed to reduce the accent mark on their english skills to a point in which it was not perceivable to a normal person. In addition to this, they would also have improve their vocabulary to adapt it according to the necessities, switching from american to british english whenever required. SLang and local idioms would also have been incorporated.

The agents would maintain periodic training exercises specially designed for each of them to maintain this level of proficiency.

The agents would finish this course and get ready for the following program in their special field operations training. All this would be secret.

 

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