Ruslan Russian 2 by John Langran, Natalya Veshnyeva, 1899785485, Lowest Book Price Finder

Customer Reviews:

non native speakers

I found this cassette particulary useful to use in an intermediate class - the dialogues were fun and interesting and provided us with many entertaining moments. Please don't let the fact there is a non native speaker on the cassette put you off - it is all part of the fun. He plays the part of the typical Englishman abroad and is designed to provide some light relief showing us the type of situations we could end up in! These are very short pieces at the end of each unit; the rest of the dialogues are spoken by native speakers.

Why use a non-native speaker

It is generally a very good product. The dialogues are very authentic and much superior to those boring ones found in most introductory texts.

There is a major setback in the cassette, however. One of the speakers was not native. His English accent is obvious even to a novice like mine. For example, there was too much aspiraiton in consonants like t and the soft consonants were too hard. Given that most people buy cassettes in order to master pronounciation, it would be much better if the cassette was recorded exclusively with native speakers.

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