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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5932 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 5 13 March 2013 at 11:08am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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What language courses, and books, do colleges and universities use ? I know that my old college used Rus' A Comprehensive Russian Course, but I'm not sure what they used for other languages. The Routledge Intensive courses seem geered towards universities, but I don't know if any use them.
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| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6440 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 2 of 5 13 March 2013 at 12:35pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I know that Swedish Universities for some reason use Colloquial Chinese for Chinese. Genki is used for Japanese.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6937 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 3 of 5 13 March 2013 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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It's a mixed bag. Just running a search on Google using "[insert language name]", "course" and "syllabus" I got the following examples:
- Estonian 2012/2013 (Uppsala Universitet (Sweden))
- King's College London - Polish course descriptions
- Cornell University Russian Program
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| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4447 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 4 of 5 14 March 2013 at 2:50am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Slava Paperno at Cornell also created an excellent course for intermediate students which is built around an adaptation of the early Soviet comic novel 'The Twelve Chairs' by Ilf and Petrov. It's entertaining, and great for vocabulary building. Also, there are at least two film versions of the novel, so you could watch them on Youtube in tandem with doing the course.
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6690 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 5 14 March 2013 at 11:47pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
From my own experience: Russian (Högskolan på Gotland, 1998/2006-2007) - Intensivryska (Erik Fält), Russian for beginners (Y. G. Ovsiyenko), Møde i Petersborg - Svidanie v Peterburge (in Danish; Birgitte Hertz, Hanne Leervad & Henrik Lærkes), Modern rysk grammatik (Lennart Wikland) Mandarin (Lund University, 2007-2010) - no textbook, no grammar, no nothing, apart from dialogues and shorter texts we had to download. I don't know if the teachers had created the material on the spot, hired natives to record it or (least likely) bought the material somewhere and chopped up the dialogues for us. Esperanto (Stockholm University 2010) - http://www.lernu.net Portuguese (Stockholm University 2010-2011) Portugues XXI (Ana Tavares), volume 1 consists of a textbook+CD (approximately 1 hour) and a book filled with exercises (each book can be bought separately). ISBN 978-972-757-541-1. Everything is in Portuguese. Instructions, grammar explanations etc. We also used additional compendiums on grammar, pronunciation etc. Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 14 March 2013 at 11:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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