Pimsleur Basic Russian 5 Audio CDs
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This Basic program contains 5 hours of audio-only, effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions.
HEAR IT, LEARN IT, SPEAK IT
The pimsleur dialect education technique is a language studing mode developed by Dr Paul Pimsleur. The practice is founded on a few major issues : anticipation, graduated gap recollection, basic vocabulary, with organic education. Pimsleur method is an audio-based system, in which the student builds phrases or repeats from memory along with a CD. Language courses commonly necessitate a student to repeat following an teacher, which Pimsleur argued was a passive means of learning. Dr pimsleur produced a "challenge and answer" technique, where a learner was prompted to interpret a saying into the target language, which was then confirmed. This practice makes a more active way of learning, making the learner to ponder before responding. Dr pimsleur thought the principle of anticipation mirrored real conversations in that a speaker should recall a saying quickly.
The Dr paul pimsleur process by no means teaches grammar explicitly, instead leaving the student to infer the grammar through general patterns and phrases recurring over and over. Dr paul pimsleur thought this inductive structure is specifically how native speakers discover grammar when they are children; only in schools is it "taught" on the blackboard.
About the Russian Language
Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three (or, according to some authorities, four) living members of the East Slavic languages, the others being Belarusian and Ukrainian (and possibly Rusyn, often considered a dialect of Ukrainian).
Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the 10th century onwards. Today Russian is widely used outside Russia. Over a quarter of the world's scientific literature is published in Russian. It is also applied as a means of coding and storage of universal knowledge — 60–70% of all world information is published in English and Russian languages. Russian also is a necessary accessory of world communications systems (broadcasts, air- and space communication, etc). Due to the status of the Soviet Union as a superpower, Russian had great political importance in the 20th century. Hence, the language is one of the official languages of the United Nations.
Russian is the official language of Russia. It is also an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the de facto official language of unrecognized Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Education in Russian is still a popular choice for both Russian as a second language (RSL) and native speakers in Russia as well as many of the former Soviet republics.
Russian distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those without, the so-called soft and hard sounds. This distinction is found between pairs of almost all consonants and is one of the most distinguishing features of the language. Another important aspect is the reduction of unstressed vowels, which is not entirely unlike that of English. Stress in Russian is neither indicated orthographically, nor governed by phonological rules.
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