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Learn how to speak Russian
Russian is an East Slavic
language and an official language in Russia, Belarus, and
Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language
in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Estonia, and to a lesser
extent, the other countries that were once constituent
republics of the Soviet Union and former participants of the
Eastern Bloc. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European
languages and is one of the three living members of the East
Slavic languages. Written examples of Old East Slavonic are
attested from the 10th century onwards.
It is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia
and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. It is
also the largest native language in Europe, with 144 million
native speakers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Russian is
the eighth most spoken language in the world by number of
native speakers and the seventh by total number of speakers.
The language is one of the six official languages of the
United Nations.
This foreign
language course was developed by The Foreign Services
institute. It is meant to be used as a crash course in
a foreign language for basic conversational ability by a
foreign traveler or diplomat. It is an introductory
course meant for beginners and includes basic conversational
language by native speakers.
This course
consists of 9 lessons in mp3 format, with 4 student texts
in PDF format of over 600 pages. Adobe Reader is
required to view the PDF files, while the mp3 files can be
listened to by any audio player on your PC.
Total run
time of course: 4 hours, 34 minutes, 22 seconds.
A must have resource for any foreign traveler!
Notice:
Please note, this disk is only for use in your computer's
drive! It will NOT play in the DVD Player hooked up to
your TV or the CD player in your car!
This is a CD-ROM disk, so you need a CD-ROM drive on your
PC to play it.
This disk contains this
foreign language course in MP3 format. This is not for
use in your CD player, it is not for your DVD player, even
if they play MP3 disks. This disk is only formatted to
be opened in your computer. You have to insert this
disk in your PC, click on "My Computer" and click on the
disk to open the files. You can copy the MP3 files to
your PC, and then load them on to any MP3 player of your
choice. Please note: that if you try to
play this disk on anything other than your computer, it
won't work! |
