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ruskivyetr
Diglot
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United States
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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
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Belgium
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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.


I will look into this. Thanks very much for suggesting this book as well as the website.
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efeilliaid
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China
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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
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United States
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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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