Now You're Talking: Russian in No Time [Box set] [Audio Cassette]

Thomas Beyer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1991 | ISBN-10: 0812077334 | ISBN-13: 978-0812077339 | Edition: Audio Cassette

A great companion for international travelers, the new edition of this handy language-teaching package combines the pocket-size bilingual Russian At a Glance phrasebook with two audio compact discs that present simplified dialogues in Russian. The phrasebook holds more than 1500 expressions that travelers need for making themselves understood in hotels, airports, train stations, restaurants, and other places they're likely to visit. The book also contains an additional 2,000-word bilingual dictionary, plus travel tips, driving tips, simplified maps of major Russian cities, and more. The audio CDs, which replace the cassette tapes in earlier editions, familiarize travelers with often-needed phrases, and also provide help with language pronunciation and listening comprehension. Barron's publishes Now You're Talking! language packages in five different languages.

--This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

(back cover)
Make yourself understood at airports * railway stations * hotels * stores * restaurants * sightseeing tours * and more

Enclosed 280-Page
Phrase Book Features:

Thousands of words and expressions in English and Russian

Helpful travel information

Two Compact Discs (Total approx. 2 hrs. 20 minutes) Feature:

Bilingual dialogues dramatizing typical travelers' situations

Instruction to help you pronounce Russian words and phrases correctly

The Audioscript Provides

Hundreds of phrases for travelers --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

About the Author

Thomas R. Beyer, Ph.D., is Professor of Russian and Chairman of the Russian Dept. at Middlebury College, VT. He has published extensively in literary and scholarly journals on the Russian language and on Russian literature. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Barrons Educ Series Inc Audio; Audio Cassette edition (April 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812077334
• ISBN-13: 978-0812077339
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 4.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,865,858 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Thomas R. Beyer Jr was born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York where he attended Xaverian HS. he is a graduate of Georgetown University (1969) and the University of Kansas (1974). For the past 35 years he has been a Professor of Russian at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the author of over a dozen books to learn Russian, several translations of the Russian writer Andrei Bely. Considered an expert on Russian writers in emigration in Germany and the United States, Professor Beyer has lectured extensively in Russia, Germany and the United States. For the past few years he has offered seminars on the works of Dan Brown designed to permit students and readers separate fact from fiction.