Russian Textbook for High School

[Ivliyeva, Irina]

Good morning, dear colleagues,
I endorse all three books listed below.
 
I personally have  been  using  Basic Russian (by Mischa A. Fayer) for the past 15 years. This well composed text has sevearl advantages:
1) NO PICTURES! thus no distractions from the grammar/ syntax content. Misha keeps it simple - in a good way.
2) All units are well balanced and take no more than 8 pages per unit.
3) The book is not too heavy or big or expensive (easy to carry around, per my students' admission).
4) The minimal cultural content (which is always changing in the real world!) allows to use the  Fayer textbook as a stable base,  and gives an open playing field to  instructors to incorporate  any cultural / contemporary content  of their choosing (I use YouTube, Internet, Lenta.ru, etc.).
5) My students are engineers. If you choose this book for a different audience,  there is always a chance that they may not take it as well as my students do.
 
Good luck!
 
Irina Ivliyeva
Assistant Professor of Russian
Missouri S&T

 
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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Mary Harrah
Sent: Fri 3/16/2012 11:20 PM
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Subject: [SEELANGS] Russian Textbook for High School



I am starting a Russian language program at the high school level in our school district.  It will be the only program at that level in our state.  I am looking at three different textbooks, but would really like some advice as to what works well at the high school level.  Currently I am looking at:

1.  Basic Russian (by Mischa A. Fayer)
2.  Golosa
3.  Russian Face to Face

I would love to hear about your experience with any of these.

Thank you!

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