Pimsleur Conversational Russian - 8 Audio CDs :
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The Pimsleur Method provides the most effective language-learning program ever developed. The Pimsleur Method gives you quick command of Russian structure without tedious drills. Learning to speak Russian can actually be enjoyable and rewarding.
The pimsleur language knowledge scheme is a language learning technique designed by Paul Pimsleur. The structure is predicated on 4 key ideas : anticipation, graduated period recollection, fundamental vocabulary, as well as natural remembering. The Pimsleur method is an audiobook approach, in which the student builds sentences or repeats from memory along with a CD. Language courses usually involve a learner to say again after an coach, which Pimsleur argued was a passive system of remembering. Dr pimsleur produced a "problem and answer" system, where a student was prompted to convert a turn of phrase into the objective language, which was then established. This practice produces a more energetic way of studing, making the learner to reason before responding. Dr paul pimsleur believed the principle of anticipation reflected real-life conversations in which a speaker must call to mind a turn of phrase quickly.
The Dr paul pimsleur technique focuses on teaching generally used words in order to lead to a complete awareness of a "main vocabulary". However, word-frequency text analyses point out that a fairly small principal vocabulary accounts for the bulk of words spoken in a actual language. For example, in English, a set of 1950 words composes about 80% of the whole printed words. Therefore, an understanding of these 1800 words would lead to roughly an 80% word comprehension rank.
 About the Russian Language:
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).Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages.
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.Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the 10th century onwards.
Russian is the official language of Russia. Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. It is also an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the de facto official language of unrecognized Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. 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. |
