Luigi Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6969 days ago 113 posts - 135 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Russian
| Message 1 of 28 20 March 2007 at 1:40pm | IP Logged |
http://www.princeton.edu/russian
This course looks so comprehensive to me, there are tons of audiofiles available and the explanations seem very specific.
I've not started studying Russian yet, so I'd like to know if the Princenton's course is enough to get a good basic knowledge of the language, or if I have to add something else (like a grammar handbook or something).
Thank you in advance for your replies.
Edited by Luigi on 21 March 2007 at 5:05am
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Guanche Hexaglot Senior Member Spain danielmarin.blogspot Joined 7075 days ago 168 posts - 178 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, GermanC1, RussianB1, French, Japanese Studies: Greek, Mandarin, Arabic (Written)
| Message 2 of 28 20 March 2007 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
It's really amazing! If I had known this course when learning Russian, I'd have advanced much faster!
However, I cannot give you an neutral answer, since I already "know" Russsian. Anyway, it seems to me this course is quite comprehensive and covers most (if not all) aspects of the language. Highly recommended.
Edited by Guanche on 20 March 2007 at 5:51pm
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TDC Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6950 days ago 261 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, French Studies: Esperanto, Ukrainian, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Persian
| Message 3 of 28 21 March 2007 at 3:31pm | IP Logged |
Yes, the Princeton course is excellent. There are lots of dialogues, also russian songs, poems, and excerpts from stories/books and lots of good grammar explanations.
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7185 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 4 of 28 21 March 2007 at 5:32pm | IP Logged |
Indeed, the course looks good especially with the funny dialogues. It's a pity that I don't have time to learn Russian right now. I'd be glued to this course otherwise.
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andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7106 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French
| Message 5 of 28 22 March 2007 at 4:21am | IP Logged |
Yeah, I think this got posted a while back as well. I downloaded it then as it appeared quite in depth. I'm looking forward to putting it into practice when I get around to Russian :)
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6499 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 6 of 28 22 March 2007 at 5:28am | IP Logged |
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.
Anyway, here's a great little site that should help you pick up the Russian alphabet: http://www.alphadictionary.com/rusgrammar/alphabet.html
I prefer having a few more exercises for each letter, like the lessons I wrote for the Greek alphabet at http://www.wikibooks.org/wiki/Modern_Greek or the Korean alphabet at http://www.learnlangs.com/RWP/Korean , but this is a good start anyway.
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Adler Newbie New Zealand Joined 6622 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese
| Message 7 of 28 22 March 2007 at 6:12am | IP Logged |
Is there some content missing?
SLA101
SLA105
SLA207
How come it's named like that? Should there also be:
SLA102
SLA103
SLA104...etc?
Just wondering.
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7185 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 8 of 28 22 March 2007 at 4:46pm | IP Logged |
Logically, you would think that there'd be SLA 102/103/104. However, numbering conventions for courses depend on the university.
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