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Available September 2003Created for the serious language-learner, our deluxe Ultimate Russian Advanced course has been revised and updated. It teaches a sophisticated level of conversation and grammar and is equivalent to two years of college study. Free additional exercises are now available on line!Perfect for the businessperson and anyone traveling or living abroad, Ultimate Russian Advanced course contains a 400+ page book with eight 60-minute CDs covering 20 lessons. Each lesson includes lively, up-to-date dialogues, vocabulary, exercises, culture notes, and detailed explanations of grammar and usage.KEY FEATURES:• Ideal for anyone planning to live or conduct business abroad• Includes extensive business vocabulary and details of business etiquette• Free extra practice on line with more than 100 additional practice sections• Updated with new vocabulary and information about culture and everyday life; and now include references to the euro• Now available on CD for ease in moving between lessons–perfect for use in the car, at the gym, or anywhere you please
Series: Ultimate Advanced
Audio CD
Publisher: Living Language; Pap/Com edition (September 16, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400020727
ISBN-13: 978-1400020720
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 2.4 x 10.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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You get twenty lessons. Each one starts with a dialog that'sword-for-word the same as the corresponding lesson on the CDs. Thesubjects, engaging enough, range over situations like "visit to anantique store", "job interview", "at the airport", "at a wedding", "ata computer show", "visit to a factory", "visit to a farm", "visit to ahospital", "TV news", "at a movie festival", "visit toSt. Petersburg". Chekhov's plays they are not, but they are way moreinteresting than typical textbook fare, and Chekhov won't teach youhow to say "buckle your seatbelt and prepare for landing".Following each dialog you get a translation, which is usually fine butoccasionally a bit loose. For example, "Kakye proizvedenyaiskustva vam osobeno nravitsa" (p.133) is rendered "Is there anyparticular type of art that appeals to you". If you don't know "proizvedenya"or "osobeno", you'll be headed for your dictionary.On the other hand, the "primechanya" -- about a dozen or so footnotesto each dialog -- are outstanding little word vignettes that impartthe kind of context and depth you won't get in any dual-languagedictionary. (You know how dictionaries try to cover a word's fullrange by giving you about four or five English words each of whichmeans a distinctly different thing -- which is ok if you're trying tounderstand what you're reading, but less useful asa guide to your own attempts at speaking Russian.)Following that, each chapter gives you a section on grammar (whichwill be mostly review to the likely customers for this book, but itdoesn't hurt and it's presented nicely).
I bought Ultimate Russian Advanced several months ago hoping to improve my vocabulary, grammar, but most especially my listening comprehension. About the CD's:The book includes four CD's with very crisp, clear recordings of native Russians speaking to one another on topics likely to be encountered by a businessperson traveling and working in Russia, along with a few topics on cuisine, leisure and daily routines such as transportation and shopping. Each recording lasts around three minutes, and is followed by extract sentences from the dialogues that you've just listened to; after each extract sentence or phrase you have several seconds to repeat the native speaker's words and intonation. This type of exercise is very useful for boosting listening comprehension, and one's ability to repeat unfamiliar phrases.As a couple of reviewers noted, the English transcript can be a shade off in meaning from the Russian one, but overall I think the quality and content of the recordings is laudable, especially as this is to my knowledge the only textbook with listening exercises geared for an intermediate to upper-intermediate level student.About the book:I have been living in Russia for over two years and doing my best to learn the language. Frequently, when speaking with Russians, I hear what I think must be exceptions to grammatical rules, and this book has so far done a fine job of giving very practical, very straightforward explanations for many aspects of Russian grammar that had previously left me scratching my head, for example chto-nibud' versus chto-to and chto-libo, the difference between perfective and imperfective command forms, and many others.
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