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Pimsleur Russian Language Programs
» Russian I Comprehensive Combo Package SpecialAbout The Russian LanguageRussian is the official language of Russia and is the native language of the overwhelming majority of the population there, even though Russia is home to multiple ethnicities. Russian is also a second language to citizens of the republics of the former Soviet Union, as well as other former Eastern Bloc countries such as Poland and Bulgaria, which makes Russian an extremely useful, if not always entirely welcome, language for travelers to dozens of countries in eastern Europe and central Asia. Russian is a Slavic language and is therefore related to Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Polish, among others. It uses the Cyrillic alphabet for its writing system. Despite Russia's vast geographical size, there are only three main dialects of the language, and the differences between these are not so vast as to cause problems between their respective speakers. The native speakers on the Pimsleur Russian cassettes speak an educated version of standard speech in St. Petersburg, one of the most important and most frequently visited cultural centers of Russia. Why The Pimsleur System WorksThe late Dr. Paul Pimsleur was much more than a language teacher. He did research on how both children and multi-lingual adults learn languages and discovered key principles that unlocked the mystery of how we learn languages. The Pimsleur programs provide a method of self-practice with an expert teacher and native speakers in lessons specially designed to work with the way the mind naturally acquires language information. The various components of language -- vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar -- are all learned together without rote memorization and drills. Using a unique method of memory recall developed by renowned linguist, Dr. Paul Pimsleur, the programs teach listeners to combine words and phrases to express themselves the way native speakers do. By listening and responding to thirty minute recorded lessons, students easily and effectively achieve spoken proficiency. » The Pimsleur Method « |
