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| playadom Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5763 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 3 11 January 2012 at 4:26am | IP Logged |
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Hi all,
I've made it my 2012 language goal to resume studying Russian. I had studied it for about four months last year, slowly working through the first half of the old Assimil Russian Without Toil and the first half of the New Penguin Russian Course. I'd like to use Assimil again as a major component of my study plan, but I'm not sure which version to use. I've read on this board that the language in Russian Without Toil is outdated, and that the learning curve is too steep towards the end (I stopped before the literary examples started). My Italian is good enough to use the Italian-based courses: this leaves me with the new-ish (90s, I think) Il Nuovo Russo Senza Sforzo (the one with 70 lessons -- but I've heard that this course isn't that good -- is that true?) and the new course, simply titled Il Russo (Assimil's site said it came out in 2008 -- this one has 100 lessons, but I can't find it for free online and would have to drop €80 or so on it without even seeing it first). Any suggestions? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5385 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 2 of 3 11 January 2012 at 12:13pm | IP Logged |
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I happen to like the 70 lesson course, the problem is the learning curve is steep. While
a typical Assimil course has 2-3 min lessons many of those in the Russian course are 5min+. Not very graded, but I found the course brilliant after having done the 100 lesson Le Russe which is Assimil's newest offering. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Opensecret Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4502 days ago 20 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Mandarin | Message 3 of 3 20 January 2012 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
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I haven't used the Assimil audio -- I used Pimsleur I, II and III for that. But I've used the 70-lesson book in the French version (Le nouveau russe sans peine, 1995), and I think it's the best of several different Russian texts I've tried. It's probably not a good source for contemporary slang, but the reading material and vocabulary are varied, and I didn't find that the learning curve was too steep at the end. Some of the reading excerpts at the back of the book were challenging, but the translation that is always right there on the facing page made that manageable. Edited by Opensecret on 20 January 2012 at 10:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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