the textbook Poekhali has been criticised in Russia

[Vadim Besprozvanny]

Any negative reaction that comes from the Duma usually serves as a
compliment to the object of the criticism but in some instances it is just
an another "certificate" of their inability to discuss issues of education.

Vadim   

On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 14:26:41 -0500, "James Beale" <James at russia-on-line.com>
wrote:
> It certainly could have used a better editor this is true.  Most of  the
> publications from Zlatoust do not suffer from some of these
> stylistic/editing problems.  As my colleague mentioned to me, the
criticism
> aimed at the book from the Duma is not the editing, but rather the
content
> and is an effort to perhaps assert more control over textbook content
aimed
> at the foreign markets (not just the internal textbooks, which have
already
> been "revised.")
> 
> James Beale
> Russia Online, Inc.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vadim Besprozvanny [mailto:vbesproz at umich.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 11:16 AM
> To: James at russia-on-line.com
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] the textbook Poekhali has been criticised in
Russia
> 
> 
> Without going into futile discussion about the content of this textbook I
> cannot help noticing that I would stay away from using texts written in
> such a broken Russian. Even these three short fragments quoted at
> http://www.amic.ru/news/199245/ sound grammatically and stylistically
> ridiculous. 
> 
>>У меня опасная жена<
>>смотрю, где взять деньги<
>>У меня опасная работа, но много проблем.
> У меня три пистолета, но я не люблю людей
> в банке<
>>На работе я читаю интересные лекции<
>>Иногда я принимаю наркотики, тогда
> студенты говорят<
> 
> More than enough.
> Vadim
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 09:49:29 -0500, James Beale <James at russia-on-line.com>
> wrote:
>> As the North American distributor of Poekhali (and all Zlatoust 
>> publications), we have been watching this interesting development.  If
> you
>> would like to see some sample pages from the textbook, we have them 
>> available on our site, ilearnRussian.com
>> 
>> http://bit.ly/UpDQ5P
>> 
>> James
>> 
>> James Beale
>> Russia Online, Inc.
>>

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