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| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4670 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 17 of 24 03 March 2012 at 9:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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The main thing that turned me off about the princeton course was the strange phonetic alphabet the author created.
It's also poorly organized. It has a lot of good info, and it's free, but I'll use something else for those reasons. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fortheo Senior Member United States Joined 5035 days ago 187 posts - 222 votes Studies: French | Message 18 of 24 14 March 2012 at 12:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I too found the Princeton course to be very poorly organized. FSI Russian seems like a far more structured approach.
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5055 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 19 of 24 14 March 2012 at 12:46pm | IP Logged | ||
And what transcription would you like to see? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 20 of 24 14 March 2012 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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None. Just learn to read the Cyrillic...
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| rollo Diglot Senior Member Joined 4749 days ago 11 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Russian | Message 21 of 24 03 November 2012 at 12:05am | IP Logged | ||
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One book that has made a HUGE difference for me is "Russian for Beginners" by Duff and Makaroff.
There's no accompanying audio, so you should already be able to read and pronounce, but I found the small chapters (despite some Soviet-era vocab) to be really helpful. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5125 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh | Message 22 of 24 03 November 2012 at 12:49am | IP Logged | ||
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The rt.com free online course looks promissing: short dialogues with audio, alphabet section, exercises, grammar section. Did anybody use it? Is it any good?
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| mrpootys Groupie United States Joined 5610 days ago 62 posts - 69 votes Speaks: English* | Message 23 of 24 09 November 2012 at 6:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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For anyone who speaks German, or can atleast understand it, the russlandjournal podcast has 100 episodes
and is absolutely free. Its also has an exercise book and a book that goes along with the episodes.its far more extensive than pimsleur, and again its absolutely free. Im actually wondering why I havent seen it on here. Its kind of done in a mt kind of way with a German guy learning along with you. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| mrpootys Groupie United States Joined 5610 days ago 62 posts - 69 votes Speaks: English* | Message 24 of 24 09 November 2012 at 6:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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I also second the new russian assimil, and like wulfgar said the princeton course in my opinion is too pooröy
organized to get anything out of it in my opinion. Edited by mrpootys on 09 November 2012 at 6:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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