No, unfortunately. I'm from Miami, and Russian education isn't really a focus there (as opposed to the vast resources for Spanish and French and etc). I was trying to do Russian on my own before college with absolutely no resources other than what I could find for myself, and in terms of listening, all I had was music lol. I DO have the Russian I and II pimsleur tapes, but now I'm in my third year of formal russian study and realize that the tapes sound pretty unnatural. They're great for pronunciation, but they essentially take the same set of dialogs in English and try to translate them into every language the same way more or less, so what you're saying just sounds unnatural I felt like. They also kinda stress learning more or less useless vocabulary equally with very useful vocab, and give no explanation for grammar other than "this is the way it is". They also ONLY use the vy form as far as I can remember, which is good to an extent, but do you really sound normal if you never use the ty form? I'd only recommend Pimsleur tapes if you keep all these caveats in mind, and you have someone there to tell you "erm.. we don't use "koe-shto" that much.. use "shto-to" instead" etc.
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Date: 2007-10-08 06:28 pm (UTC)Good luck to you and him!