Overview
Main description
The next best thing to a year in Russia!
Streetwise Russian with Audio CD offers you a unique opportunity to learn
first-hand how Russian is actually spoken. With the help of more than 25 everyday
dialogues performed by native speakers, you pick up on the idioms, colloquialisms, slang, and
vulgarisms currently used by people from all walks of life.
Fascinating features help explain the cultural attitudes behind many expressions. And exercises
enable you to flex your comprehension and conversational skills.
Includes one 75-minute audio CD.
Table of contents
Chapter 1: Greetings and Forms of AddressChapter 2: Grumbling and TeasingChapter 3: Bragging and CriticizingChapter 4: Admiration and PolitenessChapter 5: Review chapterChapter 6: Love and HateChapter 7: Gossip and CommentingChapter 8: Negotiating, Bargaining, and Saying "No"Chapter 9: Giving Advice and Moral SupportChapter 10: Review chapterChapter 11: Persuading and SurpriseChapter 12: Warning and ExplainingChapter 13: Discussing and Giving OrdersChapter 14: Forbidding and NegatingChapter 15: Review chapter
Author comments
Jack Franke, Ph.D., is a professor of
Russian and head of the department at the Defense
Language Institute.
