Easy Russian for English Speakers Vol. 2: Speak Russian Like a Russian; Fly on a Russian Spaceship; Talk about planet Earth and listen to Yuri Gagarin, William Shakespeare and Anton Chekhov in Russian

Easy Russian for English Speakers Vol. 2: Speak Russian Like a Russian; Fly on a Russian Spaceship; Talk about planet Earth and listen to Yuri Gagarin, William Shakespeare and Anton Chekhov in Russian

ISBN  9780956116581

Second volume in the popular Easy Russian 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 >

Track List 

01 Introduction
02 Understanding Russian Names
03 Birthdays, Fun Names, and Zmej Gorynych
04 Learning Russian Like a Native
05 Do, Create, Complete, Finish in Russian
06 To Be Or Not To Be in Russian
07 Live, Stay, Survive, Heal, Worry in Russian
08 Speak Russian Like a Russian
09 Talking About Our Planet Earth in Russian
10 Go, Move, Stop, Set off, Begin, Arrive in Russian
11 More about Russian phonetics
12 Look, See, Watch in Russian
13 Listen, Hear, Overhear, Pay attention in Russian
14 Reading Chekhov in Original
15 Gagarin About Planet Earth
16 Gagarin About Landing
17 Shakespeare in Russian

About The Author

Max Bollinger is a Russian born British actor, producer and writer with credits including BBC’s Doctor Who, ITV’s Ghostboat TV film, Pan MacMillan’s Easy English for Busy People audio training, Short Stories by Anton Chekhov audio series, Mumu by Ivan Turgenev audio book.

Prior to establishing career in performing arts held management posts at The Cambridge University Local Examination Syndicate (now Cambridge Assessment), various management and consulting posts in British Telecommunications Plc (BT), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Max Bollinger about Easy Russian for English Speakers:

“When I learned English, I discovered that my teacher wasn’t only teaching us the language itself.  He would bring English literature, music, talk about English culture and this made a huge difference for all his students.  I would very much like to do the same with Easy Russian. In the first volume I included fragments of Pushkin poetry, important cultural concepts such as the Russian Soul and some basic informal and business etiquette.  The second volume includes live speech of Yuri Gagarin, Chekhov story in the original and even Shakespeare in Russian”