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| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 1 of 37 27 August 2009 at 4:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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My ultimate goal is B2 Level on the European Curriculum.
Given I am starting Russian from ground zero, I have developed the curriculum for myself: 1)Pimsleur Series I, II, & III- Exclusively. I plan to "break in" my brain with Pimsleur over 90 days. 1 lesson every day, 3x a day (all before lunch, because I study French in the afternoon and evening) 2)Michel Thomas Russian Foundation & Advanced-After the hardcore repetition of Pimsleur this should be a nice complement and a bit more fun. *I would also like to learn the Cyrillic alphabet at this point 3) Mixed Method Audio- RussianPod101.com (I downloaded all their files)- Listen to one every day a couple of times Text- I have the following "The Everything Learning Russian Book" "Penguin Russian" Other-Assimil: "Ruso Sin Esfuerzo"- I really think the Spanish part of my brain may help me by giving me a second perspective. I'm not sure about which order to use Assimil and the books in yet. I might be alternating to complement each other as some of the things will be redundant. (Though after looking at two books in English the Penguin looks more thorough and complete, while the Everything book seems more basic, So I think I'll start with the latter and follow up with penguin). 4) Russian 101/102 at my University- A more formal setting to solidify any shaky areas in my foundation, plus someone else grading me provides tremendous feedback. 5)The Princeton Russian Course- I imagine this will be a great indicator of where I stand at that point, I think it might go further than 101/102... Oh please feel free to make suggestions!!! Edited by LatinoBoy84 on 17 October 2009 at 4:32am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 2 of 37 04 October 2009 at 5:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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Finished Pimsleur Russian 1, and started listening to Russian 2. Also listening to Russian web radio/Podcasts almost daily. I'm casually doing RussianPod101.com podcasts everyday to supplement Pimsleur, these have a relaxed pace, and help strengthen my foundation. (I find I'm reviewing a lot with these and picking up a few new structures/vocab every now and then).
Oh, I also picked up the Entire "Learn in Your Car" Russian set. Edited by LatinoBoy84 on 04 October 2009 at 6:03am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 3 of 37 17 October 2009 at 4:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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I now have the FSI Russian FAST course. Looks great, more modern (pub. 1995).
1/2 through Pimsleur 2 (slowed down the pace a little). On Lesson 22 of RussianPod101 survival phrases (I love these because each podcast is like 3-5 min long). Russian is hard, but fun. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 4 of 37 06 November 2009 at 3:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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Finally wrapping up Pimsleur 2 (4 more lessons) I started MT as well (On the 4th cd of beginner).
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| lynxrunner Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States crittercryptics.com Joined 5913 days ago 361 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Swedish, Haitian Creole | Message 5 of 37 06 November 2009 at 7:08am | IP Logged | |||||
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You have the same native languages as me and study the same two languages that I study.
Are you sure you're not me? In any case, I wish you good luck with your studies. I personally can't stand FSI (and I'm too poor for Pimsleur :x) so I hope it works out better for you than for me. I'll be following your log to check your progress - maybe you have a better studying method than I do. Удачи! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 6 of 37 07 November 2009 at 12:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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Gracias! El Ruso un idioma facinante, pero me parece tan deficil. Espero porder aprenderlo poco a poco. Le recomiendo el libro de Assimil para estudiar el Ruso tambien se ve bien escrito, y pienso que le prodria sacar bastante provecho. Tambien considere usar el libro "Penguin Russian". Using both together would be ideal. Suerte!
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| lynxrunner Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States crittercryptics.com Joined 5913 days ago 361 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Swedish, Haitian Creole | Message 7 of 37 07 November 2009 at 10:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
El de los anos cincuenta me parecia un poco loco. No me gusto mucho. Muchas personas recomiendan ese libro, pero no es a mi estilo.
Esto libre si es el mejor libro de ruso que he visto. Me gusto bastante. Si solo tenia audio... Le deseo buen suerte en el camino de aprender ruso. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5558 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 8 of 37 07 November 2009 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
Just found this website recently. Looks like a good resource for Russian learners. http://masterrussian.com/ 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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