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Russian?

PostPosted: May 30th, 2010, 10:06 am
by lilili
Hello!
It is wonderful to have this site!!!
What I am missing is the full old course in Russian, Clayton Dawson, Modern Russian 1 + 2. It is hard to get, also when you would pay...(only on cassettes, I dont have any player)
Is there any chance that it will go online, I also can wait, but some time I have to decide, how I learn...
For any answer many thanks!
Gundula.

Re: Russian?

PostPosted: May 30th, 2010, 9:53 pm
by chung
As far as I can remember "Modern Russian" shares similarity with FSI courses when it comes to teaching method (i.e. drill, drill, drill). However the similarity ends there. "Modern Russian" is not in the public-domain in the USA like the old FSI courses on this website since Georgetown University claims copyright over the course. You can sometimes find the textbooks for Modern Russian at more reasonable prices from second-hand bookstores on the internet. Unfortunately the accompanying audio is much more difficult to find at a comparably low price. You probably know that you can buy each volume (i.e books + CDs/tapes) for about $250 US each from either MultilingualBooks.com or WorldLanguage.com

Georgetown University Press apparently no longer publishes the books. See the following link.

how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=14982&PN=19

Re: Russian?

PostPosted: May 31st, 2010, 9:37 am
by tuxpenguin
David Freedel has posted up the Princeton Russian course for free download, which is supposed to be pretty good, and very comprehensive.
http://www.freelanguagecourses.com/language/russian/princeton-russian-course-51/