START: The Sound and Writing Systems of Russian (Online Third Edition)
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Completely redesigned in this 3rd edition, and now offered as an exclusively online product, START: The Sound and Writing Systems of Russian facilitates teaching the sounds and writings systems of Russian to first-year English-speaking students more effectively than ever. As a supplement to any standard first-year Russian textbook, START, 3rd Edition integrates its presentation of the Cyrillic alphabet, Russian sounds, and Russian writing systems through text, audio, video, written exercises, dictations, and auto-correcting quizzes so that students can acquire a solid grounding in fundamentals before moving on to more advanced material. Read more about START, 3rd Edition - including instructor and student FAQs.
Course Instructors: Click here to create a user account and request preview access to START, 3rd Edition.
Students: If your class is using START, 3rd Edition please contact your instructor for information on how to purchase access. If you have questions about student purchases please email customer@hackettpublishing.com.
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Completely redesigned in this 3rd edition, and now offered as an exclusively online product, START: The Sound and Writing Systems of Russian facilitates teaching the sounds and writings systems of Russian to first-year English-speaking students more effectively than ever. As a supplement to any standard first-year Russian textbook, START, 3rd Edition integrates its presentation of the Cyrillic alphabet, Russian sounds, and Russian writing systems through text, audio, video, written exercises, dictations, and auto-correcting quizzes so that students can acquire a solid grounding in fundamentals before moving on to more advanced material.
Features of START 3rd Edition:
- 11 lessons of textual exposition, with integrated audio recordings, of letters and letter combinations spoken by native speakers (in the odd-numbered lessons). Coverage includes hard and soft consonants, voiced and voiceless consonants, regressive assimilation, reduction of unstressed vowels, and more.
- Improved audio files that enable students to isolate sounds more easily for more effective study.
- New audio-recording practice lessons that allow students to record themselves practicing pronunciation.
- Improved video files in the even-numbered lessons that demonstrate how to write Cyrillic characters and letter combinations in cursive. Video files now include audio of native speakers pronouncing the characters and letter combinations.
- Self-quizzes and dictations included at the end of every chapter.
- Summary reviews
- A summary Russian sounds and spelling rules.
Course Instructors: Click here to create a user account and request preview access to START, 3rd Edition. (instructor FAQs)
Students: If your class is using START, 3rd Edition please contact your instructor for information on how to purchase access. If you have questions about student purchases please email customer@hackettpublishing.com. (student FAQs)
About the Author:
Benjamin Rifkin is Dean of the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Russian at Hofstra University