Acknowledgments

This textbook was supported by the Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Language Partnership, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

We appreciate the administrative help that we received from the Center for Language Teaching Advancement at Michigan State University, especially Emily Uebel, the Language Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, especially Dianna Murphy, Jana Martin, and Dusty Johnson, the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, especially Karen Evans-Romaine, and the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Cultures at Michigan State University, especially Jason Merrill and Yen-Hwei Lin. Thank you also to the ACTR Teachers program in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

We are grateful for our colleagues who served as consultants and contributing authors, including: Aselle Almurat, Nila Friedberg, Marsel Khamitov, John Lyell, and Olga Permitina.

Thank you to Thomas Jesús Garza for extremely helpful suggestions in a review.

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