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Published: 28/09/2007

Extent: 2 Hrs

Series: Michel Thomas Series

 

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Summary:

Learn another language the way you learnt your own

You learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Russian in the same way.

You’ll stick with it because you’ll love it

· Use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas.

· This method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Russian in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself.

· You learn through listening and speaking – without the pressure of writing or memorising.

· You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably.

The NEW Russian Introductory Course

This is the first two hours

• Learn another language the way you learnt your own

• Effective method - the Michel Thomas Method of language teaching works with the brain

• Motivating - live classroom situation with two students encourages you to learn with the students on the recording
• All-audio - the way you want to learn

• Pronunciation is gently - but effectively - corrected

• Reference booklet - accompanying booklet lists key phrases in English and Russian (transliterated script)

• Suite of progressive and complementary course components: Introductory, Foundation, Advanced, and Vocabulary

• Sales record - the hugely successful Michel Thomas Method is applied to Russian.

Table of Contents:
Introduction. How to use this course. Similarities between English and Russian
eto bank = ‘this (is) (a / the) bank’ – no word for ‘is’, ‘a’ or ‘the’ in Russian
ya toorist = ‘I (am) (a) tourist’ – no word for ‘am’ or ‘a’ in Russian
Form a question by inflexion: say the word that you are questioning at the highest pitch of your voice
Soft consonants
Saying ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘not’
-tsiya in Russian is ‘-tion’ in English
vy = ‘you’
Question words ‘what?, where?’
mozhno = ‘possible’ so ‘I / you / he/ one etc. can / may’
Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’
Using infinitives (the 'to' form of the verb) after mozhno = ‘possible’: mozhno koopit’? = ‘Possible to buy?’
Making words plural (more than one)
n’el’z’a = ‘not possible’ so ‘I / you / he/ one etc. shouldn’t, I / you / he/ one etc. am / are / is not allowed’
Using infinitives after n’el’z’a = ‘not possible’: n’el’z’a koopit’ = ‘not allowed to buy’
znat’ = ‘to know’; ponimat' = ‘to understand’; doomat' = ‘to think’; ooznat’ = ‘to find out’; ‘I’ form of these verbs
ya (n’e) khochoo = I (don’t) want (it); yest’ = ‘to eat’, pit’ = ‘to drink’; d’elat’ = ‘to do’
Asking politely
‘you’ form of verbs
‘me’, ‘you’ as object of verb (‘I understand you’)
Question word ‘how?’
‘I / you have’ in Russian = ‘by me / you (is)’
byt’ = ‘to be’

About the Author(s):
Natasha Bershadski studied at the Moscow State Linguistic University and taught English in Moscow before moving to London, where she has taught Russian for 15 years at King's College, UCL, LSE, Middlesex University and the Foreign Office.

Readership:
Self-access course for adult beginners

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