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Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced is Links to an external site. a vibrant and modern course designed to help students achieve advanced proficiency in Russian. Offering a flexible modular approach structured around contemporary themes, the course further develops reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills while also expanding the student’s cultural literacy.
Key features include:
- Structured chapters presenting a wide assortment of readings that include blogs, forums and surveys as well as opinion pieces and commentaries. Each text is accompanied by assignments with increasing levels of difficulty.
- Authentic and up-to-date readings, video and audio excerpts covering a range of relevant social and cultural topics, including Demography, Youth Culture, Politics and Society, Economics and Globalization.
- Video clips from news programs that are used not only to develop listening comprehension but also introduce students to contemporary Russian society.
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- Particular attention to helping students acquire advanced vocabulary and the ability to converse, discuss and argue about issues with extended paragraph-length discourse.
- Special focus on the development of strong listening and reading comprehension skills, ensuring that students understand the ideas and supporting details in narrative and descriptive texts and connected discourse.
- Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced will be an essential resource for undergraduate students in their third and fourth year of Russian language study. It is also suitable for heritage learners of Russian who have mastered literacy and are familiar with the grammatical structure of Russian.
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ISBN-13: 9780415712279
ISBN-10: 0415712270
An interactive website full of videos, audio, and self-correcting exercises accompanies the course.
Each chapter on the website contains:
- Keys to the exercises in Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced.
- Video and audio clips for the exercises in the textbook.
- Interactive written and oral exercises which help you master the material in each chapter. You will need a lot of practice in order to learn new words and expressions, master Russian grammar, and learn to read and write!!! The interactive format of most of the exercises is ideally suited to this task.
Flashcards (Quizlet)