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Pimsleur Russian Conversational Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-16 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Russian with Pimsleur Language Programs
Pimsleur® equals success. Just one 30-minute lesson a day gets you speaking and understanding like no other program.
This course includes Lessons 1-16 from the Russian Level 1 program - 8 hours of audio-only effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. Topics greetings, numbers, meals, shopping, telling time, scheduling activities, and asking and giving directions. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Russian.
The Russian Language
Russian, one of the six official languages of the United Nations, is the official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Krygystan, with an estimated 150 million native speakers around the world. Pimsleur's Russian uses speakers from Moscow and St. Petersburg, which accounts for slight pronunciation differences between speakers, but accurately depicts contemporary spoken Russian.
Tech Talk
- CDs are formatted for playing in all CD players, including car players, and users can copy files for use in iTunes or Windows Media Player.
This course includes Lessons 1-16 from the Russian Level 1 program - 8 hours of audio-only effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. Topics greetings, numbers, meals, shopping, telling time, scheduling activities, and asking and giving directions. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Russian.
The Russian Language
Russian, one of the six official languages of the United Nations, is the official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Krygystan, with an estimated 150 million native speakers around the world. Pimsleur's Russian uses speakers from Moscow and St. Petersburg, which accounts for slight pronunciation differences between speakers, but accurately depicts contemporary spoken Russian.
Tech Talk
- CDs are formatted for playing in all CD players, including car players, and users can copy files for use in iTunes or Windows Media Player.
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8 pages, Audio CD
First published December 26, 2005
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August 15, 2018
Whoever wrote this language guide has a wonderfully dry sense of humor. I burst out laughing a couple of times from some of the unexpected scenarios and responses in this speaking guide.
The conversational method that this guide uses - learning short responses and building new vocabulary into larger sentences – is also a fantastic way to learn! I tried out a different CD set that spit out random vocabulary words every few seconds and it was awful. There’s no way to retain that much new random information in such short spurts. It’s much better to repeat and build vocab in a way that also teaches sentence structure and breaks down the pronunciation, while demonstrating the changes in grammar and pronunciation based on context. This was an awesome way to spend my time in rush hour traffic; I would highly recommend this CD set.
The conversational method that this guide uses - learning short responses and building new vocabulary into larger sentences – is also a fantastic way to learn! I tried out a different CD set that spit out random vocabulary words every few seconds and it was awful. There’s no way to retain that much new random information in such short spurts. It’s much better to repeat and build vocab in a way that also teaches sentence structure and breaks down the pronunciation, while demonstrating the changes in grammar and pronunciation based on context. This was an awesome way to spend my time in rush hour traffic; I would highly recommend this CD set.
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