The Joint Services School for Linguists (JSSL) was founded in 1951 by the British armed services to provide language training, principally in Russian,...
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Michael Frayn (category People educated at Kingston Grammar School)
Kingston Grammar School. Following two years of National Service, during which he learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists, Frayn read Moral...
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St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. It was home to a site of the Joint Services School for Linguists from 1956 to 1960. A number of units were here at some point:...
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Proficiency Tests Monterey Institute of International Studies Joint Services School for Linguists Language education List of Language Self-Study Programs "Colonel...
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Kingdom. After college and national service, he took the Russian course at the Joint Services School for Linguists, in Cambridge and Bodmin, Cornwall....
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lecturer. When, aged 18, doing his National Service, he was assigned to the Joint Services School for Linguists in Bodmin, Cornwall, to learn Russian. There...
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Tom Springfield (category People educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe)
Service (1952–54), and was assigned to the Joint Services School for Linguists in Coulsdon, Surrey. The school was known as "the Russian course", and its purpose...
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boarding-school in the UK. Skipping university, he studied Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists in London, and then worked in Berlin for British...
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speak Russian at Dulwich, he carried out his National Service at the Joint Services School for Linguists. He attended and graduated from Emmanuel College,...
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documentary filmmaker. For his National Service commencing in 1956, he served in Fife at the Joint Services School for Linguists where he was taught Russian...
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Peter Carson (translator) (category Linguists from the United Kingdom)
mother and during his National Service years at the Joint Services School for Linguists. He has translated two titles for Penguin Classics: several of Anton...
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Terence Wade (category 20th-century linguists)
University, he was both a student and instructor in the Joint Services School for Linguists, during which time he studied Russian at Cambridge. He arrived...
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the song "Stenka Razin" at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service (1952–54). The school was known as “the Russian course”...
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academic linguist. In addition to a career with the London University School of Slavonic Studies, she was course director of the Joint Services School for Linguists...
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went to school in Walthamstow. During his National service he learnt Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists. After his National Service he went...
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Alan Bennett (category People educated at Leeds Modern School)
Bennett learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his national service before applying for a scholarship at Oxford University...
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Middlesex. Between 1949 and 1953, the Joint Services School for Linguists taught servicemen and women with an aptitude for languages to speak Russian. In January...
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into the British army, spending most of his time at the Joint Services School for Linguists in Cambridge and Bodmin, where he was trained as a Russian...
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studied Russian language at Cambridge University in the Joint Services School for Linguists with Dennis Potter in the next hut and Potter's producer...
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Dennis Potter (category People educated at Bells Grammar School)
his national service was in the Intelligence Corps of the British Army and he learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists. Having won a...
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university in the UK. Vosnesenskaya taught Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists. She became a naturalised British citizen on 1 January 1957...
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Parmiter's School. He did National Service nominally in the Royal Air Force, actually learning Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists and at the...
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Geoffrey Prime (category British people convicted of spying for the Soviet Union)
man in the RAF. He was later sent to learn Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists (JSSL) in Crail, Scotland. He was appointed as an acting...
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Shannon M. Kent (category Women linguists)
established on August 10, 2018. Kent was considered a ‘rock star’ among the linguists. She was fluent in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Arabic, and rose quickly...
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Roger Carrick (category Alumni of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies)
before departing for National Service in the Royal Navy 1956–58, during which he learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists. He then returned...
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Myles Burnyeat (category People educated at Bryanston School)
qualified as a Russian interpreter. The training for this he completed at the Joint Services School for Linguists at Crail. From 1959 to 1963, Burnyeat undertook...
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Harold Walker (British Army officer) (category People educated at Shrewsbury School)
and later to house troops for the D-Day landings. In the 1950s it was the site of the Joint Services School for Linguists. The site is now and industrial...
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to carry out his National Service from 1956 to 1958, studying the Russian Language at the Joint Services School for Linguists in Crail, Fife, Scotland...
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(second-generation Japanese Americans) who were trained as linguists. Graduates of the MIS language school (MISLS) were attached to other military units to provide...
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Harvey Pitcher (category People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood)
attended Merchant Taylors' School. During his National Service (1955–57), he studied Russian at the Joint Services School of Linguists, qualifying as an interpreter...
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