Qbe Tetraglot Senior Member United States joewright.org/var Joined 7141 days ago 289 posts - 335 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Japanese, German, Mandarin, Aramaic
| Message 9 of 28 22 March 2007 at 4:54pm | IP Logged |
Sprachprofi wrote:
I don't quite see where they teach the alphabet in the first lesson, though that's supposed to be the objective of the lesson... guess the course is not complete after all. |
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The course begins introducing the alphabet in the second lesson. It has approximate transliterations beginning with the first lesson, though it would be helpful to know the alphabet going in. It's not rocket science, after all.
Ah, if I only had the time to take up Russian again.
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BelgoHead Senior Member Belgium Joined 6309 days ago 120 posts - 119 votes Studies: French, English* Studies: Esperanto
| Message 10 of 28 08 November 2007 at 11:47pm | IP Logged |
can anyone help me out, the link is not working correctly.
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noybf Newbie United States Joined 6393 days ago 34 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 11 of 28 09 November 2007 at 2:26am | IP Logged |
you can download the course here:
http://www.freelanguagecourses.com/
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NJMaverick Newbie United States Joined 6161 days ago 34 posts - 36 votes Studies: English*, Portuguese
| Message 12 of 28 13 July 2009 at 3:13pm | IP Logged |
I don't see the course on any links from here. Can someone post a new one, preferably that does not have to be unzipped? I do not have the software for that.
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Walshy Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6948 days ago 335 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German
| Message 13 of 28 13 July 2009 at 5:13pm | IP Logged |
NJMaverick wrote:
I don't see the course on any links from here. Can someone post a new one, preferably that does not have to be unzipped? I do not have the software for that. |
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WinRAR - install this to unzip stuff.
http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar39b4.exe
The course is here:
http://storage.freelanguagecourses.com/princeton_course.zip
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irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6056 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese
| Message 14 of 28 30 October 2010 at 8:00am | IP Logged |
Can anyone tell me what style of course this is? Is it drill based?
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5562 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 15 of 28 30 October 2010 at 1:19pm | IP Logged |
So what does 101, 105 and 207 refer to in the Princeton Russian course? Here's a brief summary taken from Princeton's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures for anyone's who's interested:
RUS 101 - Beginner's Russian I
"The objective of RUS101 is to give a basic knowledge of Russian. All aspects of introductory grammar are thoroughly presented in this course, with emphasis on conversation throughout the term."
Additional reading list: Richard Robin, Karen Evans-Romaine, Galina Shatalina, Joanna Robin. Golosa (book 1, 4th ed.; textbook & student activities manual) Prentice Hall, 2006.
SLA 105 - Intermediate Russian
"Major emphasis on the development of vocabulary and oral expression with continuing work on difficult grammar topics. Vocabulary thematically organized to include such topics as self and family, education, work, human relationships, politics, and national attitudes. Includes practice on the etiquette of common social situations. Vocabulary reinforced through film and the reading of classical and contemporary fiction and history."
Additional reading list: F.Miller, O. Kagan, V. Puti , Russian Grammar In Context.
SLA 207 - Advanced Russian Reading & Conversation
"A literature/language course designed to further develop speaking and reading proficiency, comprehension and writing skills through substantial expansion of vocabulary, work on sentence structure, review of selected grammar topics, discussion of the literary texts, and work with a movie "Ironiia sud'by"."
Additional reading list: Alexander Pushkin , "Mednyi Vsadnik"; Sandra Rosengrant, Elena Livshitz , "Focus on Russian: Interactive Approach to Communication"; Eduard Riazanov , "Ironiia sud'by" (film).
Edited by Teango on 30 October 2010 at 1:25pm
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Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6588 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German
| Message 16 of 28 30 October 2010 at 2:38pm | IP Logged |
I'm guessing "RUS 101" is so named because it's the introductory course in Russian (RUS). The number 101 is frequently given to beginner courses in the American system. It seems that the other courses are not under Russian but under Slavic (SLA), for some reason. And since there are more than one Slavic language, the "missing" numbers are presumably used by non-Russian Slavic languages.
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