xoxotiffany Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 Hello, I want to change my foreign language from Italian to Russian. I have narrowed my curriculum choices down to BYU Independent Study or the Penguin Russian course. I have heard good things about each but I wanted to get some more opinions from parents/students who have BTDT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Of those two, I'd probably do the BYU and then go back through the Penguin book AFTER that. The BYU course is using http://www.amazon.com/Russian-Communicative-Program-Contemporary-English/dp/0844243027/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316668084&sr=8-1 If you look, it includes audiocassettes, which the penguin course does not. I don't like the way the penguin text organizes their tables. I think if you do the holistic approach of the BJU course and then follow up with the Penguin, you'll probably be fine. The Penguin text will make sure you test well for placement into college classes. Just make sure you make your own grammar tables with a more logical arrangement. BTW, Indiana University has a killer, killer summer slavic language program. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 My dd is doing Russian 1 through Landry academy online. She loves, loves, loves it! They use the Golossa textbook series which I really like as well. The teacher is an Army linguist who speaks several different languages, but seems to specialize in Russian language. She is very approachable and funny too! Dd is learning a lot. Highly recommended. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Wow, it's a shame they didn't have all these internet resources back when I was learning russian! Did you see the extras to go with that Golosa text? http://www.gwu.edu/~slavic/golosa/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Nyssa Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 I enjoyed the linguistic approach in Lipson's books, available from Slavica. They are also very funny. I guess they would be dated now (Soviet period). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Hahaha, you're reminding me of the story my first russian teacher told of walking into Russian 101, being told to read, and the first word was for *hydro-electric power plant* :lol: Oh the joys of soviet-era texts. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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