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Pimsleur Comprehensive Russian Level 1 - Discount - Audio 16 CD
Pimsleur Comprehensive Russian Level 1
Comprehensive Russian I includes 30 lessons of essential grammar and vocabulary -- 16 hours of real-life spoken practice sessions -- plus an introduction to reading.
Upon completion of this Level I program, you will have functional spoken proficiency with the most-frequently-used vocabulary and grammatical structures. You will be able to:
* initiate and maintain face-to-face conversations,
* deal with every day situations -- ask for information, directions, and give basic information about yourself and family,
* communicate basic information on informal topics and participate in casual conversations,
* avoid basic cultural errors and handle minimum courtesy and travel requirements,
* satisfy personal needs and limited social demands,
* establish rapport with strangers in foreign countries,
* begin reading and sounding out items with native-like pronunciation.
About the Russian Language
Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three (or, according to some authorities, four) living members of the East Slavic languages, the others being Belarusian and Ukrainian (and possibly Rusyn, often considered a dialect of Ukrainian).
Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the 10th century onwards. Today Russian is widely used outside Russia. Over a quarter of the world's scientific literature is published in Russian. It is also applied as a means of coding and storage of universal knowledge — 60–70% of all world information is published in English and Russian languages. Russian also is a necessary accessory of world communications systems (broadcasts, air- and space communication, etc). Due to the status of the Soviet Union as a superpower, Russian had great political importance in the 20th century. Hence, the language is one of the official languages of the United Nations.
Russian distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those without, the so-called soft and hard sounds. This distinction is found between pairs of almost all consonants and is one of the most distinguishing features of the language. Another important aspect is the reduction of unstressed vowels, which is not entirely unlike that of English. Stress in Russian is neither indicated orthographically, nor governed by phonological rules.
Russian is the official language of Russia. It is also an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the de facto official language of unrecognized Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Education in Russian is still a popular choice for both Russian as a second language (RSL) and native speakers in Russia as well as many of the former Soviet republics.
The Pimsleur method is an audio tracks linguistic communication acquisition methodology tailored by Dr Paul Pimsluer that emphasizes effective response over rote memory. Inside the course of instructions, the listener repeats keywords provided by native speakers and constructs new phrase by inference. As new key phrases are introduced, the listener is prompted to echo earlier phrases. The requests for any supplied phrase are bit by bit separated out in ever-increasing intervals. Between Nineteen Sixty Three and 1971, Dr Paul Pimsleur created Greek, French, Spanish, German, and Twi classes while training at the UCLA The Pimsleur lanuage learning system focuses on proficiency in speaking, in addition as competence in reading. These pair of elements are refined through the use of thirty-minute training lessons, which are repeated until a ranking of at minimum eighty% awareness is completed before taking the next step to the the following lessons. Throughout the class exercises, students listen closely to native people of the specific spoken language as they speak out phrases in simultaneously the foreign language, coupled with the student’s chief language. At calibrated time periods, learners are inspired to replicate a word or phrase just after paying attention to the presenter. As the beginner advances through the package, the period grows, as does the dimensions of the lexicon. The programmes are made up of thirty-minute day to day lessons and short reviewing courses
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