Russian: from intermediate to advanced

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This four-skill textbook is truly the key to mastery for intermediate and advanced students since it focuses on independent language production through the ability to narrate, describe, compare, and explain. Irina Six, University of Kansas, USA "This book could be used everywhere in the world because it combines ACTFL and TORFL principles." Irina Kostina, University of Iowa, USA Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced is a vibrant and modern course designed to help students achieve advanced proficiency in Russian. Offering a flexible modular approach structured around contemporary themes, the course further develops reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills as well as cultural literacy. Key features include: • structured chapters presenting a wide assortment of readings that include blogs, forums, and surveys as well as opinion pieces and commentaries. Each text is accompanied by assignments with increasing levels of difficulty • authentic and up-to-date reading, video, and audio excerpts covering a range of relevant social and cultural topics, including demography, youth culture, politics and society, economics, and globalization • video clips from news programs that are used not only to develop listening comprehension but also to introduce students to contemporary Russian society • particular attention to helping students acquire advanced vocabulary and the ability to converse, discuss, and argue about issues with extended paragraph-length discourse • special focus on the development of strong listening and reading comprehension skills, ensuring that students understand the ideas and supporting details in narrative and descriptive texts and connected discourse • free companion website (http://www.russian.ucla.edu/AdvancedRussian) offering video and audio resources for students and instructors, sample syllabi, computer-graded lexical and grammar exercises, and sample tests as well as additional materials. Written by the highly experienced author team that co-authored the first-year textbook Beginner's Russian (2010) and the second-year textbook V Puti (2005), Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced is an essential resource for undergraduate students in their third and fourth years of Russian language study. It is also suitable for heritage learners of Russian who have mastered literacy and are familiar with the grammatical structure of Russian. Olga E. Kagan, University of California, Los Angeles Anna S. Kudyma, University of California, Los Angeles. Frank J. Miller, Columbia University and Barnard College.