Free Kindle Pimsleur Russian Level 2 CD: Learn To Speak And Understand Russian With Pimsleur Language Programs (Comprehensive) ebooks Download
The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Russian Whether you want to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what’s going on in the world around you, learning Russian will expand your horizons and immeasurably enrich your life. The best part is that it doesn’t have to be difficult or take years to master. Thirty minutes a day is all it takes, and we get you speaking right from the first day. Pimsleur courses use a scientifically-proven method that puts you in control of your learning. If you’ve tried other language learning methods but found they simply didn’t stick, then you owe it to yourself to give Pimsleur a try. Why Pimsleur? - Quick + Easy – Only 30 minutes a day. - Portable + Flexible – Core lessons can be done anytime, anywhere, and easily fit into your busy life. - Proven Method – Works when other methods fail. - Self-Paced – Go fast or go slow – it’s up to you. - Based in Science – Developed using proven research on memory and learning. - Cost-effective – Less expensive than classes or immersion, and features all native speakers. - Genius – Triggers your brain’s natural aptitude to learn. - Works for everyone – Recommended for ages 13 and above. What’s Included? - 30, 30-minute audio lessons - 60 minutes of reading instruction to provide you practice reading Russian - In total, 16 hours of audio, all featuring native speakers - a Reading Booklet and User’s Guide What You’ll Learn Builds upon skills taught in Pimsleur’s Russian Level 1. In the first 10 lessons you’ll begin using the past tense. Structures become more complex and informal speech is introduced. Soon you’ll take part in conversations about ordering meals, shopping, and local tourist attractions. As you progress, your fluency will increase as your vocabulary expands. The next 10 lessons will allow you to further combine and build upon known elements, and produce longer and more complex sentences. You’ll be discussing business and social activities, expressing your interests, and talking about the weather. In the final 10 lessons you’ll double your vocabulary and have several hundred structures to draw upon. You’ll learn to express yourself with relative structures – faster, slower, etc. You’ll be able to ask for assistance in many situations and to ask for directions to various locations. You’ll explore sports and leisure activities, manage changing money and banking, and discuss travel plans. By the end of the program, you’ll be speaking at a mid-intermediate level with near-native pronunciation, and you’ll be comfortable meeting most social demands and limited job requirements. Reading Lessons, which build upon the reading skills acquired in Level 1, are included at the end of Lesson 30. These lessons, which total about one hour, are designed to give you practice reading Russian. The Pimsleur Method We make no secret of what makes this powerful method work so well. Paul Pimsleur spent his career researching and perfecting the precise elements anyone can use to learn a language quickly and easily. Here are a few of his “secrets”: The Principle of Anticipation In the nanosecond between a cue and your response, your brain has to work to come up with the right word. Having to do this boosts retention, and cements the word in your mind. Core Vocabulary Words, phrases, and sentences are selected for their usefulness in everyday conversation. We don’t overwhelm you with too much, but steadily increase your ability with every lesson. Graduated Interval Recall Reminders of new words and structures come up at the exact interval for maximum retention and storage into your long-term memory. Organic Learning You work on multiple aspects of the language simultaneously. We integrate grammar, vocabulary, rhythm, melody, and intonation into every lesson, which allows you to experience the language as a living, expressive form of human culture. Learning in Context Research has shown that learning new words in context dramatically accelerates your ability to remember. Every scene in every Pimsleur lesson is set inside a conversation between two people. There are no drills, and no memorization necessary for success. Active Participation The Pimsleur Method + active learner participation = success. This method works with every language and every learner who follows it. You gain the power to recall and use what you know, and to add new words easily, exactly as you do in English. The Russian Language Russian, one of the six official languages of the United Nations, is the official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Krygystan, with an estimated 150 million native speakers around the world. Pimsleur's Russian uses speakers from Moscow and St. Petersburg, which accounts for slight pronunciation differences between speakers, but accurately depicts contemporary spoken Russian. Tech Talk - CDs are formatted for playing in all CD players, including car players, and users can copy files for use in iTunes or Windows Media Player.
Series: Comprehensive (Book 2)
Audio CD: 16 pages
Publisher: Pimsleur; 2 edition (July 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743525981
ISBN-13: 978-0743525985
Product Dimensions: 12.5 x 1.9 x 11 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #162,493 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2 in Books > Books on CD > Languages > Language Instruction > Russian #50 in Books > Books on CD > Reference #133 in Books > Books on CD > Nonfiction
There will be many negative sounding things that you will read in this review, however let me point out that I am glad that I went through all three levels of this program. I did these lessons in order to sound like a Russian. I did not do them in order to sound like a tourist who spent a few weeks learning how to mumble through a few Russian phrases, while completely murdering the Russian language. As far as this course could take me, I'm satisfied that I pretty well accomplished that. Just not in the way that Dr Pimsleur designed his program, as you will soon see.When I first began to use the Pimsleur Russian Language program, I was having quite a lot of difficulty with it. I read some of the reviews and started thinking that maybe I'm just not cut out for learning a new language. Some of the reviews people had written made it sound too easy, and for me it was tough. After reading a lot of these reviews I started to wonder. I was amazed at how easy some people were seemingly claiming it was for them to grasp and understand this language. Don't take my experience as normal, but I think you should take any claim that learning a language is easy, not only with a grain of salt, but a whole block of it. I finally determined that it wasn't just me, but that there were obviously some exceptional people writing reviews that had very little in common with the majority of us ordinary people trying to learn a language. It is not easy, and if you still choose to believe that it is, then perhaps that also explains the looks on the faces of your friends when you begin a serious defense of the reality of leprechauns and the tooth fairy that you also probably believe in.I find learning a new language relatively fun and quite rewarding, but I will never describe it as easy.
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