Elementary Russian Textbook? Help!

[Christopher Pike]

Dear Professor Krafcik,

We used Golosa book 1 and 2 at the University of Oregon.  There is an online
component with audio and video.  Although I often felt that some of the
material was too advanced for beginning students, the Golosa program does a
good job of preparing students for the variation and unpredictable nature of
native speech.  The videos, for example, were often too difficult.  We got
around that by assigning the more difficult sections of earlier chapters
only after the students had advanced further along in the textbook.

Best of luck!

Chris Pike
graduate student
Northwestern University


2010/9/21 Krafcik, Patricia <KrafcikP at evergreen.edu>

> Dear SEELANGERS:
>
> We have an emergency situation in that McGraw-Hill has just informed
> us that their Nachalo text is "out of stock indefinitely" and that there is
> no reprint date. We start classes in the last week in September and need
> to order some other elementary text here at The Evergreen State College.
> Please let me know what some of you use (other than Nachalo) and what
> you might suggest we order. We used the Troika text before adopting
> Nachalo and could go back to it. Are there any other really good textbooks
> (with workbooks and, hopefully, audio) out there? Our students may be
> freshmen through seniors. We have four hours of language class every week,
> and are on the quarter system.
>
> Thanks so much in advance--
>
> Patricia Krafcik, Ph.D.
> The Evergreen State College
> Olympia, Washington
>
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