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OTHER RUSLAN MATERIALS AND MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED BY RUSLAN LIMITED
"Moscow for You!" 47-minute video for learners
"A Living Russian Grammar" for beginner
      and intermediate learners

"Russian Language Routines" CDRom
Russian "Linguistickers"
The Rossica Choir Cassette of Sacred Music


"MOSCOW FOR YOU!" - NOW AVAILABLE AS A DVD!
A 47 minute video for learners, devised by John Langran, shot and produced in Moscow by Garri Dombrovsky. This video runs parallel to and supplements Ruslan 1 and Ruslan 2. Booklet with full text and vocabularies. Topics include: Moscow sights, introductions, finding the way, hotels, using the telephone, meeting people, a meal in a restaurant, the theatre, the metro, taking a taxi, buying a train ticket, buying souvenirs, saying goodbye.

"A gloriously open-ended plot... I enjoy teaching with it because of the number of levels and various ways that it allows itself to be adapted."
Colin Bearne. AE Tutor, Norfolk.

The DVD version has a menu dividing the film into 25 sections by topic for easy access.

Video version - ISBN 1899785078 - £19.95
DVD version - ISBN 1899785345 - £19.95
Plus postage £1 UK, £2 Europe, £3 Rest of World.


A LIVING RUSSIAN GRAMMAR:
180 Pages. A4 format. Written by Natalia Bitekhtina, Larissa Grouchevskaia and Ioulia Sheina, teachers at CREF (The Regional Centre for French and Russian Studies), a flourishing Russian language school in Moscow, just off old Arbat. Translated and adapted for English-speaking learners of Russian by John Langran. Published by CREF 2002 and distributed in the UK by Ruslan Limited. This is a full grammar of the Russian language for beginner and intermediate learners. The grammar points are explained on the left hand pages with numerous up-to-date examples. The right hand pages contain exercises to reinforce the new points.

To check your answers you can download the
Living Grammar Key to the Exercises
as a 28 page pdf file.

ISBN 0954433300
Recommended price £17.00
Plus postage £3 UK, £4.50 Europe, £6 Rest of World.

RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ROUTINES CDROM
"Russian Language Routines" is a CD-ROM version of grammar revision material developed over many years by David Adshead at the University of Birmingham and now enhanced with added sound. The CDRom was produced by Mike Beilby of CBL projects, who went on to produce the Ruslan CDRoms.
The program is in four sections:
Nouns
A database of Russian noun stems and English meanings. Students add endings for particular combinations of form and case.
Verbs
A selection of tests on different regular and irregular conjugations of Russian verbs, including stem and consonant changes and work with aspects.
Adjectives
Comprehensive random tests on adjectives and their endings.
Words
Gapfill exercises on a series of texts and with reference to a concordancing facility.
Price £19.90 plus postage £1 UK, £2 Europe, £3 Rest of World.
Payment by cheques to Ruslan Limited or by credit card.

RUSSIAN "LINGUISTICKERS"
Turn your home into a living dictionary!
Stickers for 98 household objects (plus 8 blanks).
Put them up around the house to help you absorb the vocabulary. Linguistickers are particularly useful in the early stages when you are learning the Russian alphabet. Stick them on or near household objects. They come off afterwards! You will be thinking in Russian as you walk round the house!

Price per pack £6.99 plus postage £1 UK, £2 Europe, £3 Rest of World. Bulk price for schools etc. £50 for 10 packs.





The pack of Russian Linguistickers contains 98 stickers plus 8 blanks. Actual size is 10cm x 2.5cm (probably slightly smaller than pictured here, depending on your screen). An English translation is given in small letters at the bottom of the sticker. Produced in collaboration with Linguistickers Ltd.

THE ROSSICA CHOIR CASSETTE OF RUSSIAN SACRED MUSIC
This is a Collector's Edition Real Time copy of concert performances by the Rossica Choir, Saint Petersburg, performing works by Tchaikovsky, Diletsky, Chesnokov, Dubensky, Balakirev, and Rachmaninov, as well as the anonymous "Agnus Dei" and a selection of six Russian folk songs.
Price £9.40 plus postage £1 UK, £2 Europe, £3 Rest of World.

THE ROSSICA CHOIR CD FROM THEIR UK TOUR IN 2004
8 tracks of Sacred Music:
Valaamski Chant - Litany
Solovetski Chant
"To Thee we sing" - Sergey Rakhmaninov
"To our Mother of God" - Sergey Rakhmaninov
"Blessed is the Man" - Pavel Chesnokov
"Let my prayer be heard" - Pavel Chesnokov
"The Angel Cried" - Pavel Chesnokov
"Bless the Lord, my soul" - Pavel Chesnokov
11 Traditional Folk Songs:
"Ti-Ri-Ri"
"Winds are blowing"
"Hey, guys, it's time to unsaddle your horses"
"In the desolate wilderness"
"Why should I live in sorrow?"
"Troika"
"Black eyes"
"Evening bell"
"Ivushka - the willow tree"
"Monotonously the little bell rings"
"Dunya, let's go to the meadows!"

Price £11.75 plus postage £1 UK, £2 Europe, £3 Rest of World.

Thanks to the Rossica Choir for their excellent recordings for the Ruslan Russian 1 course.

THE RUSLAN RUSSIAN SONGBOOK
The Ruslan Russian Songbook has its own separate page on this site.



 

E-mail: john@ruslan.co.uk