As one whose experience has taught him that better language skills leads to better quality of sex, I thought I'd pass this information along as a public service.

The Foreign Service Institute developed language courses for government employees. Many years ago I purchased the Barron's version of the FSI Portuguese course for a great deal of money. But since the course was developed using public (taxpayer) funds, the government decided that it was material that belonged in the public domain.

So...you can download the text (pdf files) and the audio (mp3 files) for free at:

http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Portuguese

For those interested in other languages, they also have course materials for Thai, Tagalog, Spanish, and many others.

The main link for the courses is:

http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php

I still have the box set I bought 7 years ago. About 2 dozen cassette tapes and a follow-along book. I think I made it through about 3 tapes before saying fuck it.

Great info. Thanks Bwana!

Thanks, Bwana.

I heard about these a while ago, that they were excellent, but didn't buy because the one I wanted was pricey. Also, my source said that the Thai course was diplomatic-quality Thai, which is somewhat different from bargirl Thai.

Hunterman, you could be right, but it never hurts to be diplomatic when negotiating anal with a Thai bargirl.

brigado amigo. great stuff!!!