Ultimate Russian Beginner-Intermediate (CD/Book)

by Living Language

Ultimate Russian has everything you need to learn Russian from scratch or to revive the Russian that you learned years ago. This course combines conversation and culture in an easy-to-follow, enjoyable, and effective format. It's the perfect way to learn Russian for school, travel, work, or personal enrichment.

Ultimate Russian Beginner-Intermediate includes:

•40 lessons in a comprehensive 416-page textbook:

Each lesson contains a lively and authentic dialogue, vocabulary, grammar and usage, step-by-step character writing, cultural highlights, and plenty of practice. The first ten lessons also include special pronunciation sections that will have you speaking right from the beginning. The book also contains review sections, readings, supplemental vocabulary sections, appendixes on essential Russian grammar, and a Russian-English/English-Russian glossary.

•8 hours of recordings with an ingenious two-step approach:

Learn at home: Listen to the first set of recordings as you follow along in your textbook. Immerse yourself in Russian while you listen and repeat with the all-Russian recordings, and learn conversation, grammar, vocabulary, and more

Learn on the go: Then practice, review, and expand upon what you’ve learned with the second set of recordings. An instructor will guide you through each lesson, and since no reading is required, you can listen in the car, on the train, at the gym…anywhere!

528 pages, Audio CD

First published April 7, 1998

Reviews

[Constance · Rating 5 out of 5]

Living Language Ultimate Russian has been a great help, being different from others Language books, as it includes directions for practice exercises in Russian. For example: "Fill in the blanks". Also included are many useful grammar-related and speaking words. For example: "active voice" and "intonation" in Russian. Currently, I am attempting my first reading recording in Russian for which the dialog in Living Language Ultimate Russian is perfect.

Thank You to the Living Language Team and Random House Company Publishing. Tom Russell, Elizabeth Bennett, Christopher Warnasch, Zviezdana Verzich, Suzanne McQuade, Amelia Muqaddam, Denise De Gennaro, Linda Schmidt, John Whitman, Alison Skrabek, Helen Kilcullen, Heather Lanigan, Fabrizio La Rocca, Guido Caroti, and Sophie Chin. Just to name a few, just because you can and I want to see your names translated.

google translation ~ Жизнь Язык Окончательный России былабольшая помощь , отличаться от других языков книг , как это включает в себя направления для практических упражнений на русском языке. Например: " Заполните пропуски " . Также много полезных гимназии , связанных и говорящие слова . Например: «активного голоса " и " интонации " на русском языке. В настоящее время я пытаюсь мой первый запись чтения на русском языке , для которыхдиалог в живой язык Окончательный русском идеально .

Спасибо языка Team жизни и Random House Publishing Company . Том Рассел , Элизабет Беннетт , Кристофер Warnasch , Zviezdana Verzich , Сюзанна Маккуэйд , Амелия Мукаддам , Дениз Де Дженнаро , Линда Шмидт , Джон Уитмен , Элисон Skrabek , Хелен Килкуллен , Хизер Ланиган , Фабрицио La Rocca , Гвидо Caroti , и Софи Чин . Просто назвать несколько, просто потому, что вы можете , и я хочу , чтобы увидеть свои имена переведены .

[Danelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Living Language's Beginner-Intermediate course has been much more useful than distilled grammar books aiming to teach you the 'essentials' of Russian. LL's grammar is taught alongside phrases and conversations that you would actually use in real life so you'd be able to converse in some basic Russian by the end of the first few lessons. But there are perhaps two disadvantages to this course. First being that the pace in this course is rather fast, and picks up rapidly in the Intermediate book. So having some prior contact with the language would keep a user well on track, if not ahead for greater ease. Second, the course is less structured than most courses (compare: Teach Yourself). It does introduce a few linguistic patterns as the lessons progress but does not present you with a grammatical guide at the start. So to avoid the inconvenience of constantly flipping to the back of the book to refer to the otherwise useful grammar tables in the Intermediate book, it may help to have complementing grammar tables to enjoy the fluid approach of Muravnik's LL Russian. Red Kalinka's beginner's grammar book lays the ground well for upper intermediate to lower advanced levels so that's great. :)