ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5277 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 9 of 12 28 May 2010 at 3:57am | IP Logged |
A really good course to start out with is a course called Cortina Russian. It does not come with audio, but the
exercises are extremely comprehensive, and you gain an active understanding of the language within the first few
lessons. What I do to compensate for no audio (as audio is important), is post the conversational points on
rhinospike.com. Native speakers will record it for you and you can utilize it for learning. I also have used the
Penguin Course and Living Language Ultimate Russian, and neither is as good as Cortina Russian. The purpose of
the exercises is to translate them from Russian to English, then from English to Russian. Trust me I've gotten so far
within a few months from just this course. It's actually really cheap too, only $10 on amazon.
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shahvlad Newbie Belgium Joined 5105 days ago 19 posts - 38 votes
| Message 10 of 12 30 May 2010 at 2:22pm | IP Logged |
ruskivyetr wrote:
A really good course to start out with is a course called Cortina Russian. It does not come with audio, but the
exercises are extremely comprehensive, and you gain an active understanding of the language within the first few
lessons. What I do to compensate for no audio (as audio is important), is post the conversational points on
rhinospike.com. Native speakers will record it for you and you can utilize it for learning. I also have used the
Penguin Course and Living Language Ultimate Russian, and neither is as good as Cortina Russian. The purpose of
the exercises is to translate them from Russian to English, then from English to Russian. Trust me I've gotten so far
within a few months from just this course. It's actually really cheap too, only $10 on amazon. |
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I will look into this. Thanks very much for suggesting this book as well as the website.
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efeilliaid Newbie China Joined 4976 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English
| Message 11 of 12 19 September 2010 at 8:14pm | IP Logged |
I'd say russianpod101 and loads of native media (online tv - radio - blogs - newspapers)
with a grammar reference book at hand. You can't go wrong.
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Jase27 Newbie United States Joined 5465 days ago 21 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, French
| Message 12 of 12 21 September 2010 at 2:16am | IP Logged |
Does anyone know if you have to email the guy who is offering the free Princeton Russian course, or is it just incase you want to thank him or provide feedback?
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