Advanced Russian on DVD-ROM: Announcement

[Slava Paperno]

Dear SEELANGERs,

Lexicon Bridge Publishers has just released a major new title on DVD-ROM:

Advanced Russian: From Reading to Speaking
by Slava Paperno, Sophia Lubensky, Irina Odintsova

Users of 12 Chairs Interactive will recognize the genre--an interactive 
multimedia disc with a plethora of materials organized into logical chapters.

-- Video recordings of readings of twelve short stories by contemporary 
Russian authors (Mikhail Veller, Andrej Gelasimov, Sergej Dovlatov, Mikhail 
Mishin, Dina Rubina, Ludmila Ulitskaya). The readers are professional actors.

-- A Russian TV film based on one of the stories.

-- A concert performance by the author of one of the stories.

-- Over thirty video excerpts from interviews with some of the authors (or 
their television appearances).

-- Fifty scenes from Russian films that are thematically related to the 
featured stories.

-- Video and audio recordings of songs and poems related to the stories.

-- Annotated photographs of the authors.

-- Complete onscreen transcripts of all video and audio recordings, 
displayed in synch with the recording.

-- One-click glosses, linguistic, and cultural comments for all texts. 
Every word is glossed. Most entries contain exhaustive grammatical information.

-- Creative assignments for all videos and photographs.

-- A unique series of exercises called Guided Reading.

For a complete listing and detailed description, with sample screen shots, 
please visit http://lexiconbridge.com

Don't miss the companion video DVDs that can be played in any DVD player, 
in class or at home.

Please write to me off-list with any questions. The authors would be 
grateful for opinions and suggestions.

Slava Paperno
sp27 at cornell.edu
Department of Russian
Cornell University 

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