Easy Russian Audio Training 2

Second volume in the popular Easy Russian Audio Training series offering Russian language learning in easy to absorb audio format, designed specifically for English speakers. Second volume features phonetics, elements of Russian grammar, rich cultural content and native Russian speakers. It can be used as a stand-alone course or in combination with other training materials.

Easy Russian 2 uncovers how Russians learn Russian language in Russia. It includes basic and advanced coverage of Russian phonetics, how Russian consonants and vowels behave in different situations. You will learn many useful action verbs such as TO BE, TO DO, TO GO, TO LISTEN, TO HEAR, TO SEE and an array of associated words and combinations. You will discover many similarities and differences between Russian and English which will make your learning much easier. After all, Russian is part of the same language family as English, so you might as well take advantage of this. You will be able to hear and more importantly understand live speech of Yuri Gagarin. You will listen to Chekhov story in the original and discover what Shakespeare sounds like in Russian. Each track represents self contained module with tuition, vocabulary, phraseology and Russian language content read by native speakers. Knowledge of other modules from Easy Russian 1 can be useful but is not a pre-requisite. Read more > http://www.interactive.eu.com/easy_russian_2.html

Track List

01 Introduction

02 Understanding Russian Names
Russian naming system; Use of formal and informal names; Birthdays in Russia; Celebrating 2 birthdays; Unusual Names; Fun Names; Russian flying dragon - Zmej Gorynych;

03 Learning Russian Like a Native
Phonetics: One letter one sound rule; Length of Russian vowels; Stress in Russian words;
How Russians learn Russian: Identifying roots of words in Russian; Extensive use of prefixes in Russian;

04 To Be Or Not To Be in Russian
TO BE and associated vocabulary clusters: not to be: I will; I was; to forget; to arrive; to extract;
TO LIVE and associated vocabulary clusters: life; to stay at someone’s place; to heal; to survive; to worry; the good life; live long and prosper; living standard; living organism;
Practice Listening Skills: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Russian.

05 Speak Russian Like a Russian
Phonetics: Aspiration in English; Voicing / De-voicing consonants in Russian;
How Russians learn Russian: pairs of Russian consonants;

06 Talking About Our Planet Earth in Russian
Planet Earth; soil; land; to land; landing; human; man; woman; satellite; life partner; how to find a life partner; ideal life partner; spaceship; boarding Soyuz spaceship; countdown; ignition; take-off;
Practice Listening Skills: 1) Yuri Gagarin about planet Earth in Russian; 2) Yuri Gagarin about his landing experience in Russian.

07 Reading Chekhov in Original
Phonetics: Reduction of vowels;
TO LOOK / TO SEE and associated word clusters: I am watching a film; to look at something; to consider; to look closely; to look through; to examine; I see; I don’t see; to spot something;

08 Gagarin About Planet Earth
Yuri Gagarin About his flight into space and fist impressions of planet Earth. Read in Russian.

09 Gagarin About Landing
Yuri Gagarin talking about his landing experience in 1961. Russian language.

10 Shakespeare in Russian
William Shakespeare, From Hamlet’s monologue read in Russian.

11 Chekhov in Russian
Anton Chekhov. From The Man in A Case story. Read in Russian.