Online Russian Language Course

[Dickins, Thomas]

Dear Elena, 
 
Online Russian language course
 

You or your colleagues might be interested to hear that earlier this year we uploaded our comprehensive full-colour Russian language course on to the Web. The course and additional online exercises (or 'Tests') can be accessed at http://www.gefix.net/sazov/. 

 

The course is not specifically business orientated, but we hope that the content may be of relevance and of practical benefit to your students. 

 

Tom and Irina

 
 

  

'S azov' (Russian from Scratch) is a communicative ab initio Russian language course, comprising a 536-page textbook and 145 recordings by educated native speakers. 

 

The textbook consists of an introductory chapter and twenty further chapters based on themes which exemplify and consolidate a series of new linguistic concepts. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of authentic up-to-date materials, such as advertisements, newspaper clippings, timetables, tickets, official forms and recent photographs, and on the creation of meaningful and relevant contexts for language learning. 

 

Each chapter begins with a summary of the competences which the students will acquire and with a list of the main points of grammar to be introduced. Roughly equal importance is attributed to the four skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening), which are developed through a series of lexical and interactive activities, including memory games, crosswords, gap-filling tasks and role plays. Full transcripts are provided for all the listening activities. Vocabulary glossaries are given at the foot of each page, where necessary, and there is an alphabetical Russian-English and English-Russian vocabulary list at the end of the course. There is also a grammar section at the end of each chapter, with more detailed explanations and grammatical exercises. 

 
 

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