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| Shriftom Newbie United States Joined 6725 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto | Message 1 of 5 25 June 2006 at 9:14pm | IP Logged |
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I have a lot of language-learning books (mainly from used book stores) and I think the ones I like best — or at least the ones that seem to match my learning style —are Nina Potapova’s books on learning Russian. Each lesson has:
A reading, A vocabulary list A thorough explanation of the grammar, Lots of exercises. (I am rather lazy as regards making up my own exercises, so I need lots of exercises so I can drill myself and get the concepts and vocabulary down right.) And there are many of lessons: 100 in all (actually in the older version from circa 1960, many of the lessons are divided into A and B). I use the book to review my Russian from time to time. Are there any other books out there that are similar in style for other languages, such as German, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, or Arabic? Edited by Shriftom on 25 June 2006 at 9:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7144 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 2 of 5 26 June 2006 at 5:38am | IP Logged |
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I too have the Russian books by Nina Potapova. They are part of my Russian library. I still do exercises from them. I wish I had bought the recordings with the books. I know they were cheap but I was given the impression that the recordings didn't really belong so I deferred buying them. It was a big mistake.
I have plenty of Russian recordings now so I am not worried. The books have a great layout. The lessons are well structured and I recommend the style of language textbooks in my own book on how to learn a language. The only qualification I would make is that I would like to see more dialogue. The major course I used for learning Russian used half narrative and half dialogue. There used to be an abundance of books following that style but there has been a shift in methodology. I regularly visit second hand book shops looking for older language material. The American printings of the Language Made Simple books are excellent. I have Russian Made Simple and Italian Made Simple and they follow this kind of approach. I like them much better than the English equivalents. If I were buying them now from Australia I would buy the American versions from Amazon. You should have no trouble finding them in the United States. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| piranha Newbie Italy Joined 5318 days ago 18 posts - 23 votes Speaks: Italian* | Message 3 of 5 11 June 2012 at 3:54pm | IP Logged |
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Hi,
I fully agree with Shriftom....I see this book of russian course(published around 1950) and I really like this style learning method...a precious gem from the past!! I recommend this book to anyone want to learn Russian! unfortunately, I think is very hard to find books for other language with similar style and approach. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5781 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 4 of 5 12 June 2012 at 2:04pm | IP Logged |
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Fanatic, I really liked the method in the "Made Simple" series a lot, it was one of my
favourites, but I never use them any more because of the number of errors they contain, have the newer editions I have seen on Amazon eliminated or reduced these errors? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| lingua nova Newbie United States Joined 4553 days ago 25 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Indonesian, Tagalog, French | Message 5 of 5 14 June 2012 at 3:06am | IP Logged |
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That sounds similar to the Assimil style of teaching. Each lesson, of which there are
roughly 100, has a short dialogue which introduces new words, as well as furthers your understanding of grammar and idiomatic use of the language. I'm currently using one of their volumes for French, and it's by far the best book I've personally picked up on French so far. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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