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nlj819 · Just Starting Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 8

I live in the United States. I have a friend in Russia who is learning to speak English. I would like to buy her some kind of a text/tape cassette set to help her learn the language. Does anyone have any recommendations?

It is relatively easy to find materials for English speakers to learn Russian here, but I don't know if there is anything availble in the U.S. for Russian speakers who would like to learn English.

Thank you very much in advance for any help.

Bender · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 3:54 am Post subject:

the best ones i have found are the pimsleur language programs. i dont know if they have them reversed for non english speakers but you can check. if you have a fast internet connection get on kaza or grokster and search for pimsleur.

mikaels · Guest

Just wondering...what percentage of people in St Pete or Moscow speak English?

mikaels · Guest

what portion of the public in St Petersburg or Moscow speak fluent english, and what percent understand simple english?

WayToRussia · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:33 pm Post subject: russian people speaking english

I would say that in Moscow and St. Petersburg about 20% can understand English, and about 10% can actually speak English. There's no official stats, it's just my opinion, but you can also look that there's about 20mln internet users in Russia, which is about 13% of all population and if you use internet you're supposed to know English.

Charlie Trew · Guest

Amazon.com has loads of books, tapes, etc. for non-natives learning English. They will also ship to Russia. Your friend may have to go to the airport to pick the package up with an internal passport.

Sergei from Moscow · Guest

David M Rowell · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 9:26 am Post subject:

The best books to teach Russians to learn English are those written by Russian people, for Russian people.

They're for sale in Dom Knigi. And they're very inexpensive. And they're much better than anything you'll find in Amazon.com - at least until such time as they come out with an Amazon.ru as well. Smile

Guest · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 6:10 pm Post subject: Re: english

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wavetossed · WayToRussified Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 337

It is easy for Russians to find good textbooks for learning English no matter where they live. But outside the biggest cities it can be hard to find supplemental materials like the graded readers published by Penguin or by Cambridge Press. Another excellent supplement to textbooks is audiobooks on CD or tape cassettes.

I sent my girlfriend a selection of graded readers, several audiobooks, some childrens books (often abridged editions which are easier to read) some Reader's Digest condensed books and a selection of English audio downloaded from the web. There was some BBC audio courses for Russian speakers and a Japanese site with English audio samples, some Voice of America programs in Special English and some Radio Canada programs.