Thread: Life after Pimsleur ?

Great great great !
I am currently going through the Princeton courses, trying to catch up with all the grammar I never learnt so far... It's nice to get to know the level one is supposed to reach semester after semester.
However, the dialogues to listen to are quite short compared to the time it takes me to read a whole lesson. Therefore, I am glad Grogs found those downloadable mp3's!
fortheether: I think the audio can only be bought, but the texts and exercices seem nice to go through.
paulb: any link to an example of one of these "learner's texts"?

Take care all!
Lyl.

Originally Posted by Lylandra

... I think the audio can only be bought...

If you can bring here the texts and exercices, we can record an audio for you.

Originally Posted by fortheether

I've been using this lately:

http://www.gefix.net/sazov/

Its a free online textbook. It has tests for each chapter also. I didn't get the audio though.

Scott

Very professional looking. I'll have to give that a closer look. Are the answers to the chapter exercises online as well? I didn't see them anywhere.

Originally Posted by Lylandra

I am currently going through the Princeton courses, trying to catch up with all the grammar I never learnt so far... It's nice to get to know the level one is supposed to reach semester after semester.
However, the dialogues to listen to are quite short compared to the time it takes me to read a whole lesson.

I'm not quite sure I follow you. Are you saying that all of the PDF's in the SLA101 folder are an entire year's worth of Russian? If that's the case then is SLA105 folder the entire 2nd year? Honestly, I didn't even realize there was more than one semester in the zip file.

As for the reading taking time, I don't think there's any way around that. Learning grammar is a necessary evil and a book is about the only way. Just keep telling yourself, "Я люблю трудные задачи."

Originally Posted by Grogs

Originally Posted by fortheether

I've been using this lately:

http://www.gefix.net/sazov/

Its a free online textbook. It has tests for each chapter also. I didn't get the audio though.

Scott

Originally Posted by Grogs

Very professional looking. I'll have to give that a closer look. Are the answers to the chapter exercises online as well? I didn't see them anywhere.

I don't see the answers either but generally they are in the text. Also as you know, there are a boat load of people here who can help.

Originally Posted by Lampada

Originally Posted by Lylandra

... I think the audio can only be bought...

If you can bring here the texts and exercices, we can record an audio for you.

Lampada,
Almost at the end of:

http://www.gefix.net/sazov/

is "Listening passages". I believe that's the text of the recordings. It's a lot of stuff to record. Up to you.

Thank you,

Scott

Originally Posted by fortheether

Originally Posted by Lampada

Originally Posted by Lylandra

... I think the audio can only be bought...

If you can bring here the texts and exercices, we can record an audio for you.

Lampada,
Almost at the end of:
http://www.gefix.net/sazov/
is "Listening passages". I believe that's the text of the recordings. It's a lot of stuff to record. Up to you.
Thank you,
Scott

Тексты же не нужны все сразу. Я думаю, что вы бы могли здесь размещать нужные в данный момент тексты, а я или кто-то ещё будем их начитывать по мере поступления.

Originally Posted by Lampada

Originally Posted by fortheether

Originally Posted by Lampada

Originally Posted by Lylandra

... I think the audio can only be bought...

If you can bring here the texts and exercices, we can record an audio for you.

Lampada,
Almost at the end of:
http://www.gefix.net/sazov/
is "Listening passages". I believe that's the text of the recordings. It's a lot of stuff to record. Up to you.
Thank you,
Scott

Тексты же не нужны все сразу. Я думаю, что вы бы могли здесь размещать нужные в данный момент тексты, а я или кто-то ещё будем их начитывать по мере поступления.

Excellent idea! I am on chapter 5 so it would be cool to hear the readings from the Listening passages for that chapter.

Thank you,

Scott

Originally Posted by Grogs

I'm not quite sure I follow you. Are you saying that all of the PDF's in the SLA101 folder are an entire year's worth of Russian? If that's the case then is SLA105 folder the entire 2nd year? Honestly, I didn't even realize there was more than one semester in the zip file.

Ouch, then I guess I should get help from english forums as well
I actually asked the Princeton Courses guy why there were no 27th and 29th lessons. He replied :
"... beginning after Lesson 26, we spent 2 days every week on the Sarah Story - almost always with one "regular" lesson in between the two. First we did the "Text" lesson, then two days later the "Grammar" lesson."
And after that : "Yes, the words marked 27 are actually from the first part of the Sarah story (I never noticed this before). Also, for the most part, there are never any new vocabulary items in the Sarah Grammar lessons - which is why the number in the Text lessons can be quite high.
Here's are copies of the syllabi for 101 (first semester) and 102 (second semester)."
So I guess SLA105 and SLA207 are 2nd year, but he hasn't answered me about that so far.

Originally Posted by Lylandra

Here's are copies of the syllabi for 101 (first semester) and 102 (second semester)."
So I guess SLA105 and SLA207 are 2nd year, but he hasn't answered me about that so far.

I'm pretty sure you're right about 105/107 being the 2nd year. In the first 105 lesson, it says that the first two lessons of the course will review "what you learned last year in SLA101." It's just an unfamiliar numbering system (I'm used to 1xx classes for freshmen, 2xx for sophomores, etc.) and that paired with the fact that none of the folders are labeled 102 or 107 (only 101 and 105) makes it confusing.

Originally Posted by fortheether

Originally Posted by Lampada

Тексты же не нужны все сразу. Я думаю, что вы бы могли здесь размещать нужные в данный момент тексты, а я или кто-то ещё будем их начитывать по мере поступления.

Excellent idea! I am on chapter 5 so it would be cool to hear the readings from the Listening passages for that chapter.

Thank you,

Scott

Scott, а где же эти тексты для начитки?

Originally Posted by Lampada

Originally Posted by fortheether

Originally Posted by Lampada

Тексты же не нужны все сразу. Я думаю, что вы бы могли здесь размещать нужные в данный момент тексты, а я или кто-то ещё будем их начитывать по мере поступления.

Excellent idea! I am on chapter 5 so it would be cool to hear the readings from the Listening passages for that chapter.

Thank you,

Scott

Scott, а где же эти тексты для начитки?

Lampada,

They are here:

http://www.gefix.net/sazov/

Click on "Book" then "Listening passages"

Thank you,

Scott

Originally Posted by fortheether

Originally Posted by Lampada

Originally Posted by fortheether

Originally Posted by Lampada

Тексты же не нужны все сразу. Я думаю, что вы бы могли здесь размещать нужные в данный момент тексты, а я или кто-то ещё будем их начитывать по мере поступления.

Excellent idea! I am on chapter 5 so it would be cool to hear the readings from the Listening passages for that chapter.

Thank you,

Scott

Scott, а где же эти тексты для начитки?

Lampada,

They are here:

http://www.gefix.net/sazov/

Click on "Book" then "Listening passages"

Thank you,

Scott

Could you please copy and paste here these passages for me in order for us to be on the same page?

У меня не получается сору and paste c http://www.gefix.net/sazov/ Там какая-то другая кодировка. Если кто-нибудь может в этом разобраться, расскажите, что нужно сделать, чтобы можно было их тексты скопировать.

Пятая глава. Четвёртое задание. Стр. 85

http://sayandpost.com/ynofcu76a2.mp3
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Можно, конечно, подвешивать здесь аудио и без текста.
Если хотите чтобы я что-то начитала, напишите здесь из какой главы и над какими заданиями вы работаете.

Originally Posted by Lylandra

Do you know other audio methods, but for a more advanced level ? (Well for someone who just finished Pimsleur's ,you got it...)
Or audio stuffs that could be understandable for me ?

I've found a product that's a pretty good follow-on to Pimsleur in my opinion:

Vocabulearn

The package consists of 12 CD's. Each CD consists of an English speaker saying a word, followed by a Russian speaker saying it in Russian. Halfway through the CD, they change the order (Russian first, then English). As far as quality, it's not the greatest, but unlike Pimsleur the set comes with a book that has a complete transcription of everything that is said. Also, unlike Pimsleur, the CD's have a lot or replayability. There are probably ~350 Russian nouns on the first CD, and unless you're a savant like Lylandra you won't pick them all up on the first, or even the tenth time you listen.

The original site for the S Azov book has been down recently; I don't know whether or not this is likely to be an ongoing problem, but the materials can also, it seems, be downloaded at the following link:

http://www.wlv.ac.uk/Default.aspx?page=12159

The Spoken Language Service's Spoken Russian is good for in the car. It has a text. You do need to use the text but the audio has English and Russian. first read through with the text and audio. After that doing the audio in the car works very well. The text has the need grammar information.

The one down side is being on cassette tape. I copied mine to the lap top and burned cds for the car.

Originally Posted by DaleD

The Spoken Language Service's ...

Dale, welcome to MasterRussian!

Originally Posted by Lampada

Originally Posted by DaleD

The Spoken Language Service's ...

Dale, welcome to MasterRussian!

Thank you. Nice forum with some great information.

I am using Spoken Russian, Linguaphone Russian, Modern Russian 1&2, Vocabulearn Russian. I have used Pimsleur Russian 1-3. I am not a good language student. I need the audio these series offer to learn.

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