QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5804 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese
| Message 1 of 4 02 January 2014 at 7:10pm | IP Logged |
Anyone wants to learn or planning to learn Rusyn? I have found a newly published Rusyn textbook:
link: http://c-rs.org/Sales/CRSCatalog2014.pdf
The Carpatho-Rusyn Society is Proud to Announce
THE FIRST
RUSYN LANGUAGE COURSE
FOR English SPEAKERS
Learn to start reading, writing, and speaking the Rusyn
language in the context of Carpatho-Rusyn history,
culture, and traditions.
This entry-level, self-study course was developed
specifically to give English speakers an easy-to-use
way to start learning and using the Rusyn language.
Students can use the course independently or groups
can get together to study and learn. 339 pages.
Highlights
•Nearly 1,500 Rusyn words and expressions with transliterated spellings and English translations
•Step-by-step Rusyn language lessons to study on your own and learn at your own pace
•Numerous exercises to practice reading, writing, and speaking Rusyn
•Audio CD recorded by native Rusyns to demonstrate correct pronunciation
•Variety of passages, poetry, and prose in Rusyn to study sentence structure
•Lots of photos and illustrations
•Self-checks and word games to measure your progress and identify trouble spots needing attention
•Interesting new content about the Carpatho-Rusyns, their history and culture
•Rusyn alphabet written in Cyrillic letters, both printed and cursive
•Bookmark with Rusyn alphabet for quick reference
•Applicable for all Rusyn dialects (variants)
•Details about Rusyn Christmas and Easter traditions and foods
•Practice in singing traditional Rusyn songs
•Popular Rusyn male and female names and common surnames with corresponding names
in English
•Reference tables
•Answer key
•Lists of books, music, and DVDs for further learning and enjoyment
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QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5804 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese
| Message 2 of 4 03 January 2014 at 5:55pm | IP Logged |
Has anyone already bought this book already? Can someone give a review about the book? I am interested in getting one.
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7105 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 3 of 4 03 January 2014 at 6:23pm | IP Logged |
It looks rather new so I wouldn't be too optimistic that someone here already has it (not to mention that we're talking about Rusyn which gets piddling attention). It's mildly tempting for me although I'm fairly resistant to adding it now because I still have more than enough languages on the go even after having recently taken off Northern Saami and Hungarian.
By the way, I stumbled upon some fairly new learning material (without audio unfortunately) for Rusyn published online in Polish and Slovak and mentioned it in my log.
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QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5804 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese
| Message 4 of 4 04 January 2014 at 7:25am | IP Logged |
Thanks, Chung for your opinion and your links.
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